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  Algeria Hotels by SmartStays - Lowest room rates and hotel reservations for Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The modern part of the city is built on the level ground by the seashore and the old part, the ancient city of the deys, climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the casbah or citadel, 400 feet above the sea.
Oran is a city in the north-western Algeria, situated on the Mediterranean coast.
During French ruled in Algeria, Oran was the prefecture of the Oran department (to French).
www.smartstays.com /algeria   (243 words)

  
  Algeria - LoveToKnow 1911
Of the crops raised, wheat, barley and oats are the principal cereals.
In pursuance of this treaty, French officers were to represent their country at the court of the amir; while the amir on his part was represented in the three French coast towns, Oran, Arzeu and Mostaganem, by vakils who immediately began to act as masters of the natives.
Algeria was considered as a kind of great military fief, and the officers who ruled there commonly took the side of the native chieftains against the civil population.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Algeria   (13917 words)

  
 Algeria - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Roman civilization in Algeria had been eroded by incursions of Berbers, and the destruction wreaked by the Vandals (who passed through Algeria on their way to Tunisia) in 430-431 marked the end of effective Roman control.
A number of small Muslim states rose and fell in Algeria, but generally the eastern part of the country came under the influence of dynasties centered in Tunisia (notably the Aghlabid of Kairouan) and the western part was controlled by states centered in Morocco (notably the Almoravids and Almohads).
In 1957 the French successfully put down the resistance, and the FLN was forced to concentrate on guerrilla activities in the rural areas; the French also constructed electrified barriers along Algeria's borders with Morocco and Tunisia in order to reduce the infiltration of men and matériel.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-algeria.html   (3542 words)

  
 Mondomix *** musiques du monde *** world music
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Mondomix devotes this report to the news of a brutal attack against one of the most popular singers in the Côte d’Ivoire, Fadal Dey.
In this month’s French version of Mondomix : Diego Amador, Buika, Band of Gnawa, Abd Al Malik, Livin’ Soul, Régis Gizavo, Wasifuddin & Bahauddin Dagar, Beñat Achiary...
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 Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Algeria (French Algérie), officially Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, republic of western North Africa; bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea; on the east by Tunisia and Libya; on the south by Niger, Mali, and Mauritania; and on the west by Morocco.
Algeria has ten universities, including two universities of science and technology, and a number of technical colleges; the total enrollment at all institutions of higher education is about 300,000.
Algeria possesses some of the largest oil and natural gas reserves in the world, and is one of the world’s top natural gas exporters.
www.arab-world-information.com /algeria.htm   (7414 words)

  
 French Colonies - Algeria (Part 3)
From the 10th to the 13th century, Algeria was ruled by a series of Muslim dynasties that originated in the Maghrib, including the Fatimids, Hammadids, Almoravids, and Almohads.
This was followed in 1830 by a French invasion and the deposition of the dey (regent) of Algiers.
Although the French government granted Muslims the vote on a separate electoral roll in 1947, demands for full political equality and further reform were opposed by the European colonists.
www.discoverfrance.net /Colonies/Algeria3.shtml   (2212 words)

  
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In the aftermath of World War II the French government revived attempts to bring Muslim Algerians into the decision-making process but these were too little and too late to offset deep-rooted colonial attitudes and a growing mutual hatred between the French and their Muslim subjects.
The French use of concentration camps, torture, and mass executions of civilians suspected of aiding the rebels, isolated France and elicited invidious comparisons with totalitarian regimes and Nazism.
The French government was caught between a colonial policy based upon racism and exploitation, and its place as a standard-bearer of democracy.
www.arab.net /algeria/aa_french.htm   (803 words)

  
 Algeria 1962   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The French also erected barbed wire fences along the borders with Tunisia and Morocco where sizable Algerian resistance bands were operating with the "blind-eye" support of the neighboring governments.
The French colons were outraged and rose again in rebellion in January 1960 and again a year later (The latter time with the support of some French generals, including Raoul Salan and Maurice Challe--previous commanders in Algeria).
Algeria: History from Arab.net is a brief history of Algeria to the 1990s.
novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/evans/his135/Events/Algeria62.htm   (1770 words)

  
 The U.S. Army Professional Writing Collection
In 1958, after several years of war in the then- French province of Algeria, which resulted in thousands of military and civilian casualties, the French Fourth Republic collapsed and was replaced by a new republican government hostile to the war.
The war in Algeria was different from many, however, in that the insurgents were defeated militarily and yet still achieved their aims, not through force of arms, but largely through the French Government's loss of public support and consequent loss of will to continue the fight.
The French military had just been extracted from the debacle at Suez, hard on the heels of defeat in Indochina, and was not yet reestablished in Algeria.
www.army.mil /professionalwriting/volumes/volume3/june_2005/6_05_1.html   (2436 words)

  
 Timeline Algeria
French general Raoul Salan led a failed army revolt in Algeria (July, 1960) and then fled abroad, continuing to direct increasing terrorist Secret Army Organization (OAS) attacks on the French and Algerian governments, turning the Algerian War of Independence into a three-way war in Algeria and a right-wing guerrilla insurrection in France.
1997 Nov 9, In Algeria attackers disguised as policemen slit the throats of 28 civilians in 2 separate attacks in the northwest.
Dahoumane was arrested in Algeria In Oct, 2000.
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 Algeria-French Morocco
By 1700 Anderson's battalions had fought their way to the French defenses on the east and south of Casablanca; as soon as General Harmon's tanks arrived from Safi the city would be surrounded.
Some of the troops arriving in Algeria became prisoners of civil police, while the rest were too disorganized to contribute to the battle for Oran.
But around noon the pro-American French commander was replaced by a pro-Nazi officer, and the 1 68th found itself receiving intense fire from soldiers of the same French units.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/algeria/algeria.htm   (8635 words)

  
 French Colonies - Algeria
Algeria, in northwest Africa, is part of the region known as the Maghrib.
The continent's second-largest nation (after Sudan), Algeria borders Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, and Western Sahara and stretches from its 1,104-km (686-mi) coastline on the Mediterranean Sea south through a varied topography to the vast desert region of the Sahara (see map).
French remains an important language, although English officially became the major foreign language taught in universities in 1996.
www.discoverfrance.net /Colonies/Algeria.shtml   (1109 words)

  
 Algeria encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Algeria politics and officials, Algerian History. Travel to Algeria
Algeria encyclopedia : Cultural Information, Maps, Algeria politics and officials, Algerian History.
Algeria (Arabic: الجزائر /ælʤæˈzæːʔir/, Berber : Ldzayer /ldzæjər/), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (Arabic:الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية /ælʤumhuˈriː ælʤæzæːʔiriː ædːiːmuqrɑˈtˁiː æʃːɑʕˈbiːæ/), is a country in north Africa, and the second largest country on the African continent, Sudan being the largest
The name Algeria is derived from the name of the city of Algiers, from the Arabic word al-jazā’ir, which translates as the islands, referring to the four islands which lay off that city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525.
www.algeriaiworld.com   (315 words)

  
 THE TREACHERY OF THE FRENCH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It should be remembered that France conquered Algeria in the 1840s to stop the depredations of the Barbary thugs.
It was the French who helped Saddam Hussein build the nuclear reactor, which the Israelis destroyed in 1981 in an amazingly skillful attack.
Algeria being surrendered to the Arab socialists (is he high) the french are for the most part socialist.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/839683/posts   (1153 words)

  
 Algeria - Country Profile - Algerie - Al Jaza'ir - Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, Algiers, Maghreb
Algeria is Africa's second largest country, covering an area of nearly 2.5 million square miles.
The French occupation condemned Algeria's population to economic, social and political inferiority and caused an armed resistance lasting for decades.
Born in Algeria, dj Cheb i Sabbah might be best described as a ritual music "hajji," a musical pilgrim of the spirit.
www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/algeria.htm   (1125 words)

  
 Jewish Task Force (JTF.ORG): Why The Muslims Are Swallowing Up Europe (Part 2)
The French military, the French settlers of Algeria and the French right-wing were jubilant when de Gaulle became Prime Minister.
He went so far as to shout, "Vive Algerie francaise!" ("Long live French Algeria!") Little did his right-wing French supporters realize that he had already decided to hand over their North African colony to its Muslim terrorist Arab and Berber inhabitants, a crowd of whom he is shown enthusiastically greeting.
In a last-ditch effort to prevent the Arab Muslim takeover of Algeria, French Algerian colonists engaged in a peaceful protest along the Rue D'Isly in Algiers, the capital of Algeria.
www.jtf.org /america/america.algeria.part.two.htm   (1664 words)

  
 History of ALGERIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This, at any rate, is stated by the French at the time to be the cause of their intervention.
With Algeria now under a reasonable degree of control (though outbreaks of rebellion continue until the 1880s), the French government sets in place the process of colonization.
The departure of the predominantly right-wing element among the settler population is reflected in the referendum held in Algeria on 1 July 1962.
www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac92   (2887 words)

  
 MO3322 - French Algeria, 1830-1962
Between the conquest of 1830 and independence in 1962, Algeria was the figurehead of the French empire and a breeding ground for the theories and practices of colonialism that were implemented elsewhere.
This course examines French and Algerian experiences in colonial Algeria, considering the initial process of ‘pacification’, Algerian resistance, French colonial doctrines, French views of the Algerians, the emergence of anticolonial nationalism, and the struggle for liberation.
Study of aspects of colonialism and anticolonialism in the context of French Algeria
www.st-andrews.ac.uk /academic/history/modhist/hons/3322.shtml   (187 words)

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