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| | Algeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Algeria is a country in northern Africa with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea along the north and bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco in the west (the Moroccan border is closed). |
 | | The name Algeria is derived from the name of the city of Algiers, which itself is from the Arabic al-jazā’ir, which translates as the islands, refering to the four islands which lay off the coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525. |
 | | In the 1990s, Algeria was engulfed in a protracted and violent civil war after the military prevented an Islamist political party, the Islamic Salvation Front from taking power following the country's first multiparty elections. |
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