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 | | The Almoravids and Almohads, Berber dynasties from the west founded by religious reformers, brought a period of relative peace and development; however, with the Almohads' collapse, Algeria became a battleground for their three successor states, the Algerian, Tunisian Hafsids, and Moroccan Merinids. |
 | | Algeria was brought into the Ottoman Empire by Khair ad-Din and his brother, who established Algeria's modern boundaries in the north and made its coast a base for the corsairs; their privateering peaked in Algiers in the 1600s. |
 | | Algeria has been a political maverick in the Maghreb, making it difficult to create the Moroccan, proposed in 1989. |
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