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French Algeria (French: Alger until 1839, then Algérie afterwards; [1] unofficially Algérie française, [2][3] Arabic: الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of Algerian history when the country was a colony and later an integral part of France. French rule lasted until the end of the Algerian War ...
May 2, 2024 · The Algerian War of Independence. The immediate catalyst for the Algerian war was the formation of the National Liberation Front (FLN), which launched a campaign of guerrilla warfare on November 1, 1954. This date marks the beginning of the Algerian War of Independence. The FLN’s strategy included attacks on both military and civilian targets ...
Algiers. Algiers (/ ælˈdʒɪərz / al-JEERZ; Arabic: الجزائر, romanized: al-Jazāʾir) is the administrative, political and economic capital and largest city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province. The city's population at the 2008 census was 2,988,145 [3] and in 2020 was estimated to be around 4,500,000.
In July 1830 a French expeditionary force conquered the city of Algiers and by 1847, almost all of the territory of what is now Algeria north of the Sahara had been subdued. The conquest brought to an end nearly 400 years of Ottoman rule and inaugurated what was to be a French colony for over 130 years. At the time, neither outcome was ...
Oct 4, 2013 · Modern-day Algiers. For starters Alger (in French) or Algiers (in English) is a name deriving from the Catalan Alguère, which itself comes from Djezaïr, name given by Bologhine ibn Ziri, founder of the Berber Zirid dynasty who built the city in 944 on the ruins of the ancient Roman city Icosium (or the seagull island), Djezaïr Beni Mezghenna ...
Algerian War. The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) [nb 1] was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. [29] An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict ...
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In World War II (1939–45) it became the Allied headquarters in northern Africa and for a time the provisional capital of France. In the 1950s it was the focal point in the drive for Algeria’s independence. After independence, Algiers grew as the country’s political, economic, and cultural centre.
