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  French rule in Algeria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the period between Napoleon's downfall in 1815 and the revolution of 1830, the restored French monarchy was in crisis, and the Dey was weak politically, economically, and militarily.
The French devised elaborate plans for settling the hinterland left by Ottoman provincial authorities in 1830, but their efforts at state building were unsuccessful on account of lengthy armed resistance.
To provoke new hostilities, the French deliberately broke the treaty in 1839 by occupying Constantine.
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 Algerian War of Independence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Recurrent cabinet crises focused attention on the inherent instability of the French Fourth Republic and increased the misgivings of the army and of the colons that the security of Algeria was being undermined by party politics.
French historians estimate that somewhere between 50,000 and 150,000 harkis were killed by the FLN or by lynch mobs in Algeria, sometimes after torture.
Algeria was admitted as the 109th member of the United Nations on 8 October 1962.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Algerian_War_of_Independence   (5210 words)

  
 History of Algeria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
To benefit French colonists, most of whom were farmers and businessmen, northern Algeria was eventually organized into overseas departments of France, with representatives in the French National Assembly.
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/History_of_Algeria   (1412 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: French rule in Algeria
The French Second Republic (often simply Second Republic) was the republican regime of France from February 25, 1848 to December 2, 1852.
Imperial Province of Elsass-Lothringen (497 Kb) Alsace-Lorraine (French: Alsace-Lorraine; German: Elsass-Lothringen) was the territory originally of the German empire, ceded to Louis XIV by the peace of Westphalia in 1648, but restored by France to the newly-unified Germany under the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt (which...
The Senate (in French : le Sénat) is the upper house of the Parliament of France.
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 Algeria International Games News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Algeria had to overcome an earthquake in 2003, which postponed the games one year, and a decade during the 1990s of intense political and religious fighting inside the country with the Islamic Salvation Front and Islamic Salvation Army battling government forces, with left almost 100,000 Algerian's dead.
Games rules generally state that there must be a certain number of teams or individuals entered in an event for it to be considered official and for medals to be awarded.
Algeria's president Abdelaziz Bouteflika has promised 1.9 billion US dollars in aid to rebuild some 40 towns that were leveled in the disaster.
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 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.
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 French rule in Algeria
During the 1870s, both the amount of European- owned land and the number of settlers were doubled, and tens of thousands of unskilled Muslims, who had been uprooted from their land, wandered into the cities or to colon farming areas in search of work.
The revolt was triggered by Crémieux's extension of civil (that is, colon) authority to previously self-governing tribal reserves and the abrogation of commitments made by the military government, but it clearly had its basis in more long- standing grievances.
Silos were emptied when the world market's impact was felt in Algeria, and Muslim farmers sold their grain reserves-- including seed grain--to speculators.
www.ukpedia.com /f/french-rule-in-algeria.html   (4178 words)

  
 The Militant - May 28, 2001 -- Algerian revolution toppled French colonialism
In the wake of agreements with the French government, the FLN met in May 1962 and adopted a revolutionary document.
Among other measures, it pointed to the need to deepen the mobilization of the masses of workers and peasants in order to carry out a sweeping agrarian reform, the nationalization of basic industry, and the widening of education throughout the country.
Reacting to a French nuclear test in the Sahara, Ben Bella issued decrees in March 1963 making permanent the status of the nationalized sector of the economy; establishing rules for the organization of worker and peasant self-management in industry, agriculture, and commerce; and stipulated how profits from the enterprises were to be distributed.
www.themilitant.com /2001/6521/652149.html   (1041 words)

  
 French policy in Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Algeria still torments France, a former colonial master and its
Algeria's current agony is about its failure to make the transition from the
the French army, responded with torture and indiscriminate killing.
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/fralgier.htm   (961 words)

  
 TIME Europe | TIME Trail: Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The French took control of the territory in 1830, and nearly a million Europeans crossed the Mediterranean to settle there, forming what was later known as the "pieds-noirs" —; or "fl feet" — community.
The war nearly brought the downfall of the French political system as a group of colonial generals — committed to keeping Algeria under French rule — attempted a putsch against Paris in 1958.
Despite the devastating civil war Algeria, under the guidance of the charismatic Ahmed Ben Bella, emerged as a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement during the cold war, supporting independence movements elsewhere in the developing world.
www.time.com /time/europe/timetrails/algeria   (797 words)

  
 Algeria --  Encyclopædia Britannica
From the Mediterranean coast, along which most of its people live, Algeria extends southward deep into the heart of the Sahara, a forbidding desert where the Earth's hottest surface temperatures have been recorded and which constitutes more than four-fifths of the country's area.
Algeria is a republic of North Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
France was unable to overcome the uprisings in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9110708   (683 words)

  
 independence of algeria and other algeria related information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
French rule in Algeria Nationalism and resistance in Algeria Algerian War of Independence History of Algeria since 1962 Algerian Civil War The Algerian War of Independence (1954 – 62) was a period of...
World War II and the movement for independence The Algerian War of Independence Independent Algeria From Ben Bella to Boumedienne Bendjedid's move toward democracy Civil war: the Islamists versus the army...
Since gaining independence, Algeria has tried to liberate itself from the economic legacy of colonialism through ambitious...
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 Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule July 5 in History
Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule July 5 in History
Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
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 Blanket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mauro debris may have come from as deep as 100 miles (161 km) below the original lunar crust, and returned samples provide evidence of when the Imbrium basin was formed and 1000 help to establish the age and physical/chemical nature of pre-impact material from deep in the crust.
The southern edge of Mare Insularum extends between the craters Lansberg and Fra Mauro.
The most significant changes included: a definition of the "technicity" requirement for patentability which distinguishes between abstract information-processing processes and specific kinds of physical processes (only the latter are "technical"); and a blanket rule that patents cannot be used to prevent interoperability between computer systems.
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