It was given the name of Randon after the French Army general Jacques Louis Randon, but the local population used to call the area "Besbes" which was given to the city as a formal name after Algeria's independence in 1962.
Jacques Louis Randon, 1st Comte Randon (1795–1871), French military and political leader
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