In 1282, Peter III of Aragon led an expedition to Collo, in proclaimed support of a rebellion against the ruler of Tunis.
Pre-Hilalian Arabic dialects remained intact only in a small area around Jijel while they were heavily mixed with bedouin dialects in the areas of Constantine, Mila, Collo and El Milia.
Nabile Farès was born in 1940 in Collo (Kabylie), Algeria, the son of Abdur Rahman Farès (President of the Algerian Assembly in the late 1950s, and imprisoned by first the French, then by Ben Bella, in the early 1960s).
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According to these legends, La Virgen del Rosario, also known as la Virgen Morena, or Black Madonna, appeared to an indigenous miner called "Collo" in the form of a small wooden statuette hidden in rocks.
HARTO THE BORGES a documentary by" Eduardo Montes-Bradley made possible with a grant from INCAA with Horacio González, Martín Caparrós, Christian Ferrer, Ariel Dorfman, Franco Lucentini, Paolo Collo, Osvaldo Bayer, Luis Sepúlveda, Mempo Giardinelli, Alejandro Howowicz produced by Soledad Liendo associate producer Sara Kaplan edited by Eduardo Montes-Bradley directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley.