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| | Al-Ahram Weekly | Books Supplement | Algiers 1830: beginnings of colonialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Before the French invasion, the Regency of Algiers was an Ottoman province, ruled from Istanbul through a local dey, and Khodja himself was a well-connected figure in the government of Hussein Pasha, the last Ottoman ruler of Algiers. |
 | | In Oran, capital of the Couchant beylik, a 24-year-old Arab marabout (religious leader), Abdel-Kader, declared himself "Sultan of the Arabs" and "Prince of the Faithful", leading the assault on the city's Turkish administration. |
 | | In Constantine, the Turkish bey managed to retain his position thanks to support from local Arab tribes, himself becoming a focal point of resistance to the French and the last representative of the Porte in what was becoming, under French occupation, the unified state of Algeria. |
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