The Algerian War was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962,which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. An important decolonization war,it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare and war crimes. The conflict also became a civil war between the different communities and within the communities. The war took place mainly on the territory of Algeria,with repercussions in metropolitan France.
The pieds-noirs are people of French and other European descent who were born in Algeria during the period of French rule from 1830 to 1962. Many of them departed for mainland France during and after the war by which Algeria gained its independence in 1962.
The national flag of Algeria consists of two equal vertical bars,green and white,charged in the center with a red star and crescent,a symbol of Islam as the nation's prominent faith. The flag was adopted on 3 July 1962. A similar version was used by the Algerian government in exile from 1958 to 1962. The Western blazon is per pale vert and argent;a crescent and star gules.
Boumerdès is a province (wilaya) of northern Algeria,located in the Kabylia region,between Algiers and Tizi-Ouzou,with its capital at the coastal city of Boumerdès just east of Algiers.
Abbassi Madani was an Algerian politician who was the President of the Islamic Salvation Front. As its leader,he became the voice of a large part of the dispossessed Algerian youth.
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial was a French Admiral and Naval Minister. He fought in both World wars,and was known mostly for his actions at Dunkirk in 1940.
Mozabite,also known as Mzab,Tumẓabt or Ghardaia,is a Zenati language spoken by the Mozabites,an Ibadi Berber group inhabiting the seven cities of the M'zab natural region in the northern Saharan Algeria. It is also spoken by small numbers of Mozabite emigrants in other local cities and elsewhere. Mozabites also use Algerian Arabic. As of 2010,UNESCO estimated there to be about 150,000 Mozabite speakers.
Mourad Benhamida is a French footballer who plays as defender for French lower league side Vaulx-en-Velin FC.
The Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic was the government-in-exile of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) during the latter part of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62).
Football in Algeria (soccer) is the country's most popular sport. The country's top domestic league is organised into two national divisions,the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 and the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2,overseen by the Algerian Football Federation.
Dellys is a district in Boumerdès Province,Algeria. It was named after its capital,Dellys.
Abdelhamid Bouchouk was an Algerian footballer. He played as a winger.
Benjamin Stora is a French historian,expert on North Africa,who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family that left the country following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora holds two PhDs and a Doctorate of the State (1991).
The Battle of Macta was fought on 28 June 1835 between French forces under General Camille Alphonse Trézel and a coalition of Algerian tribes of western Algeria under Emir Abd al-Qadir,who,at the age of 26,waged one of his most famous battles against a superior force.
Djinet,the classical Cissi,is a port town and commune in the Bordj Menaïel District of Boumerdès Province,Algeria,east of the mouth of the Isser River and around Cape Djinet. As of 2008,the population of the municipality is 21,966.
Larbi Tbessi,whose real name was Larbi Ferhati,born in 1891 in Cheria Tébessa Province,was a revolutionary and reformist Algerian,president of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema. He disappeared on April 4,1957,during the war of Algeria,following his arrest at his Algiers home by civilians disguised paratroopers,the French military are still denying arresting or detaining him.
The Raḥmâniyya is an Algerian Sufi order founded by Kabyle religious scholar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Azhari Bu Qabrayn in the 1770s. It was initially a branch of the Khalwatîya established in Kabylia region. However,its membership grew unwaveringly elsewhere in Algeria and in North Africa.
Lyes Derriche (Arabic:[إلياسدريش],was an Algerian politician.
Georgette Cottin-Euziol was a French Algerian architect,one of the first women architects in both countries.
