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  EZGeography - History of Algeria
Algeria and surrounding areas, collectively known as the Barbary States, were responsible for piracy in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the enslaving of Christians, actions which brought them into the First and Second Barbary War with the United States of America.
The French occupation of Algeria, beginning in 1830, while having a profound impact, was immediatlely met by a rebellion led by Abdel Kadir.
The referendum was held in Algeria on July 1, 1962, and France declared Algeria independent on July 3.
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 Algeria Political, Economic Environmental Information News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A.D., Algeria was conquered by the Vandals (430–31), the Byzantine Empire (6th cent.), and finally, in the late 7th and early 8th cent., by the Arabs, whose introduction of Islam profoundly altered the character of the area.
France invaded Algeria in 1830 and declared it a colony in 1848.
Fundamentalists launched a guerrilla insurrection, and Algeria was torn by violence from both sides, resulting in an estimated 50,000 deaths by the mid-1990s.
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 Algeria: History
Mass emigration of Europeans begins, and Algeria is left with a desperate lack of skilled labour.
Algeria makes full use of its oil resources, and enters the international arena, as a revolutionary, effective, fast growing third world country.
The elections are strongly criticised by several political groups in Algeria, with accusations about falsification of the results, but foreign observers declare the elections to be free and fair.
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 History_of_Algeria - The Wordbook Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Algeria became the privateering city-state par excellence, and two privateer brothers were instrumental in extending Ottoman influence in Algeria.
For 300 years, Algeria was a province of the Ottoman Empire under a regency that had Algiers as its capital (see Dey).
By 1848 nearly all of northern Algeria was under French control, and the new government of the Second Republic declared the occupied lands an integral part of France.
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 History ofAlgeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Algeria's modern borders were created by the French, whose colonization began in 1830.
Algeria became caught in a cycle of violence, which became increasingly random and indiscriminate.
Algeria has more than 30 daily newspapers published in French and Arabic, with a total publication run of more than 1.5 million copies.
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 Algeria: History — Infoplease.com
Although the official French policy in Algeria was to encourage the Muslims to adapt to European ways as preparation for full citizenship, very little was done to implement this policy, and there was virtually no mixing between the European and Muslim populations.
Algeria gave strong vocal support to the Arabs in the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973 and also contributed soldiers and matériel.
At the same time, Algeria's remaining Islamic fundamentalist guerrillas, while largely confined to more remote mountain and desert regions, continue to mount attacks against the government and have sought to expand their influence through training non-Algerian Islamists and recruiting fighters for non-Algerian conflicts from among Muslims in Europe and elsewhere outside Algeria.
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 A short history of Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1957 France secedes the southern parts from Algeria and establishes the separate territory of Sahara.
Algeria becomes a one-party state, lead by the FLN of Ahmed Ben Bella, who becomes president in 1963.
Algeria becomes a presidential-parliamentary democracy in 1996, with relative free elections, though often boycotted by opposition parties.
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 History of the Algerian Workers
The autonomous Algeria was very powerful, with a fleet that ruled all the Mediterranean while European nations payed taxes to cross it – those who refused to recognize Algeria’s claim to the sea would have their ships captured and ransomed off.
In 1830, the French invaded and successfully suppressed Algeria, capturing the capital port city of Algeirs and by 1834, Algeria was annexed as a colony of France.
Algeria was declared an Arab-Islamic socialist state with a single party political system: the FLN.
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 History Of Algeria
When Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire, the Berber tribes (who are located in the mountain areas of Algeria), unlike their coastal brethren refused to adhere to the Christian faith and continued to resist the roman occupation until the invasion of the Vandals.
429 AD But their occupation of Algeria was limited only to the coastal areas, while the mountain areas remained resistant to the foreign occupation.
Algeria remained basically Ottoman politically until its occupation by the French.
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 Algeria: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
Despite the appearance of democracy, Algeria remains in essence a military dictatorship.
Algeria: Economy - Economy About one fourth of Algeria's workers are engaged in farming, but agriculture...
Algeria: Government - Government Algeria is governed under the constitution of 1976, which has been revised numerous...
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 Algerian History
Algeria is an ancient country with a history that extends back several thousand years to the time of the Phoenicians.
When Islam grew mighty in the 8th century A.D., the Berbers of Algeria were converted to that religion and a unique civilization flourished.
In the mid-1950s, a guerilla effort arose to oust the French led by the FLN (Front de Liberation Nationale) and in 1962, independence was declared.
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 History of Algeria
Though some poor Parisiens were resettled in the cities of Algeria, by far the largest contingent of settlers came from the south of France -- particularly from the regions of Languedoc, Provence, and Savoie -- as well as from Spain, the Italian states, and Malta.
The accession of Algeria in 1894 to the status of a self-governing province along the lines of metropolitan French provinces allowed the independent-minded European-Algerians to run "their" country as they saw fit.
As part of a deal reached with the European Confederation, the Republic of Algeria was immediately admitted to the EC as a full member, with fully proportionate representation in the European Parliament, free movement of both European-Algerians and Algerian natives to and from "mainland" Europe, and preferential access to EC regional development funds.
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 History of ALGERIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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.
All the territories except Guinea vote to remain within La Communauté, and the constitution of the Fifth Republic is approved by a large majority of 78% of the votes cast.
The departure of the predominantly right-wing element among the settler population is reflected in the referendum held in Algeria on 1 July 1962.
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 History of Algeria
This article is part of the History of Algeria series
For 300 years, beginning in the early sixteenth century, Algeria was a province of the Ottoman Empire under a regency that had Algiers as its capital.
Since independence in 1962, Algeria has sought to create political structures that reflect the unique character of the country and that can cope with the daunting challenges of rebuilding a society and an economy that had been subject to years of trauma and painful transformation.
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 The contemporary political history of Algeria
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Algeria: The case for diversity; Demagogues and Arabisers
The future of the Maghreb hangs on the outcome of the struggle being waged in Algeria between the ruling military junta and the various armed Islamist groups.
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 Algeria´s History - Algeria became a French territory and in 1848 was made a département attached to France
In 1830 Algeria became a French territory and in 1848 was made a département attached to France.
Algeria also criticized French military intervention elsewhere in Africa, while further grievances were the trade imbalance in favour of the former colonial power, and recurrent disputes over the price of Algerian exports of gas to France; the French Government´s determination to reduce the number of Algerians residing in France was another source of contention.
The political establishment in Algeria is going through a political roller coaster, which started with a controversial presidential election and continues with the surrender of the Islamic Salvation Army or AIS and the conditions in which this event was negotiated by the new President, Mr.
www.arab.de /arabinfo/algehis.htm   (473 words)

  
 History of Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
For 300 years, beginning in the early sixteenth century, Algeria was a province of the Ottoman Empire under a regency that had Algiers as its capital.During this period, the modern Algerian state began to emerge as a distinct territory between Tunisia and Morocco.
Since independence in 1962, Algeria has sought to create politicalstructures that reflect the unique character of the country and that can cope with the daunting challenges of rebuilding asociety and an economy that had been subject to years of trauma and painful transformation.
The borders of modern Algeria were created by theFrench, whose colonization began 1830 (French invasion began on July 5).
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 Algeria History | iExplore.com
The present borders of Algeria (as well as those of Tunisia and Libya) were determined when the region became part of the Ottoman Empire and each of the three countries became an administrative subdivision (vilayat).
Petroleum and natural gas are the most important industries in Algeria and account for all but a small fraction of the country’s exports.
Most of the country is covered by the Sahara Desert and despite investments in the agricultural sector (the main crops being wheat, potatoes, grapes, cereals and citrus fruits), Algeria is far from self-sufficient in foodstuffs and is vulnerable to drought.
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 The History of Algeria 1830 to 1954 - Algeria.com Discussion Forum
The modern history of Algeria begins in 1830, with the conquest by the French.
Though he had wide support in central and western Algeria, he was unable to overcome the resources of what was then a vast empire, and in 1847, he surrendered and was exiled to Damascus.
The name is attributable either to the polished fl shoes worn by the French soldiers, or to the view of "metropolitan" Frenchmen that the colonizers had their feet burned fl by the African sun.
www.algeria.com /forums/history-histoire/419-history-algeria-1830-1954-a.html   (1151 words)

  
 Algeria - HISTORY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
1962 Algeria achieved independence from France after eight years of guerrilla warfare in which one million Algerians died.
Ben Bella was elected prime minister promising a "revolutionary Arab-Islamic state based on the principles of socialism and collective leadership within Algeria and anti-imperialism abroad.
These ideals were quickly put in to practice by landless peasants as they moved onto the land vacated by the French and established cooperative farms to be administered by peasant councils.
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 History Of Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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 History Of Algeria Middle East Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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 Algeria.com Discussion Forum - View Single Post - The History of Algeria 1830 to 1954
You did not mentioned that the French came looking for the genie in the bottle, but couldn't find it because the dastardly Muslims had spirited it away.
Even more, the foolish Muslims incited the goodly Frenchmen to kill them en masse believing that they would be speedily sent to heaven.
Which was, in their minds, far to be desired over the hell that was Muslim-dominated Algeria.
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 Algeria: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
Terrorism: Peru and Algeria - Terrorism: Peru and Algeria 1997 News of the World In Peru, Tupac Amaru rebels took approximately...
The impact of the 1962 repatriates from Algeria on the French labor market.
Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia: recent social change and future prospects.
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 Review of France and Algeria: A History of Decolonization and Transformation
France and Algeria: A History of Decolonization and Transformation
In part, their connection is practical: Algeria provides oil and gas on the one hand, workers on the other; in turn, France provides aid, a market, an employer, and other sources of support.
But the more interesting connection, the deeper one, is that concerning identity: to an amazing extent, the French sense of self remains defined by Algeria, to the point that the "second Algerian revolution" of 1988 caused a profound crisis of self in France too.
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 The economic history of Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The authorities in Algiers have conceded that some 55 state-owned companies in Algeria employing more than a hundred thousand people were technically bankrupt.
Algeria’s biggest refinery, the 335,000 barrel-per-day Skikda complex, has shut due to a workers strike.
A prolonged strike will put a big dent in Algeria’s sizeable oil products exports to the US and Europe.
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 Call Algeria - How to Call Algeria
Calls to Algeria require the country dialing code (213) and the appropriate city dialing code.
The city calling codes for Algeria can be found in the the table at the bottom of the page.
This is a very popular way to make low cost calls to Algeria because it offers very high quality connections and can be used from any kind of phone (home, business, cell or VoIP) without changing companies.
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