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This is a list of wars involving the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria and its predecessor states.
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result for Algeria and its Allies |
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Algiers Expedition (1516) (1516) Location:Algiers | Barbarossa Kingdom of Kuku | Spanish Empire | Algerian victory
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Algiers Expedition (1519) (1516) Location:Algiers | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Algerian victory
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Fall of Tlemcen (1519) Location:Tlemcen, Algeria | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Spanish victory |
Capture of Peñón of Algiers (1529) (1529) Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars, and the establishment of the Regency of Algiers Location:Algiers | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Beylerbeylikal victory
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Campaign of Cherchell (1531) (1531) Location:Cherchell | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Empire of Charles V: | Algerian victory |
Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–1540) Part of the Ottoman–Venetian wars Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars Location: Mediterranean Sea | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Holy League : Republic of Venice Spanish Empire | Ottoman victory
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Algiers expedition (1541) Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars Location: Algiers | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Holy Roman Empire
| Algerine victory
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Italian War of 1542–1546 (1542–1546) Part of the Anglo-French Wars & Italian Wars Part of the Algero-Spanish War Location: Western Europe | Kingdom of France Ottoman Empire | Holy Roman Empire | Inconclusive |
Expedition to Mostaganem (1543) (1543) Location:Mostaganem | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Algerian victory
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Expedition to Mostaganem (1547) (1547) Location:Mostaganem | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Algerian victory
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Campaign of Tlemcen (1551) (1551) Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars Location: Tlemcen | Beylerbeylik of Algiers Kingdom of Ait Abbas | Spanish Empire Saadi sultanate | Algerian victory
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Campaign of Tlemcen (1552) (1552) Location: Tlemcen | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Saadi sultanate | Algerian victory The Moulouya river imposed as the border [3] |
Capture of Fez (1554) (1554) Location: Fez, Morocco | Beylerbeylik of Algiers Kingdom of Kuku | Saadi sultanate | Algerian victory |
Campaign of Tlemcen (1557) (1557) Location: Tlemcen | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Saadi sultanate | Algerian victory |
Expedition to Mostaganem (1558) (1558) Location:Mostaganem | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Algerian victory |
Campaign of Tlemcen (1560) (1560) Location: Tlemcen | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Saadi sultanate | Algerian victory [4] [5] |
Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1568–1571) Part of the Algero-Spanish War Location: Spain | Muslims of Granada Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Spanish victory
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Franco-Algerian war (1609–1628) | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Kingdom of France | Algerian victory |
Tunisian–Algerian War of 1627 (1627) Part of the Tunisian–Algerian Wars Location: Algeria, Tunisia | Pashalik of Algiers | Beylik of Tunis | Algerian victory
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Djidjelli expedition (1664) Location: Jijel | Pashalik of Algiers Kingdom of Ait Abbas Kingdom of Kuku | Kingdom of France Knights Hospitaller | Algerian victory
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Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result for Algeria and its Allies |
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French conquest of Algeria (1830–1903) Part of the Algeria-European War Location: Algeria | Regency of Algiers Emirate of Mascara | Kingdom of France (1830–1848) French Second Republic (1848–1852) Second French Empire (1852–1870) French Third Republic (1870 onward) Support: | French victory |
Algerian War (1954–1962) Part of the Algeria-European War Location: Algeria | FLN | France | Algerian independence
~1,500,000 total deaths (FLN estimate)
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Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result for Algeria and its Allies |
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Sand War (1963–1964) Part of the Algeria-European War Location: Algeria | Algeria Egypt [26] Cuba [27] | Morocco Support: France [28] | Inconclusive
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Yom Kippur War (1973) | Egypt & Syria (United Arab Republic) Expeditionary forces: Supported by: | Israel Supported by: | Israeli military victory
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Western Sahara War (1975–1976) Location: Western Sahara | Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Algeria | Morocco Mauritania | Inconclusive
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Algerian Civil War (1991–2002) Location: Algeria | Algeria
| FIS loyalists Supported by: GIA (from 1993) Supported by: | Government victory
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Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present) (2002–present) Location: Maghreb , Sahara , Sahel | Algeria Mauritania Tunisia Libya Mali Niger [51] Chad [52] France [52] [53] [54] Morocco [55] | GSPC (until 2007) AQIM (from 2007) Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (from 2017) MOJWA (2011–13) Al-Mourabitoun (2013–17) Ansar Dine (2012–17) Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia) (from 2011) [56] Uqba ibn Nafi Brigade (from 2012) [57] Ansar al-Sharia (Libya) (2012–17) Salafia Jihadia [55] Boko Haram (from 2006, partially aligned with ISIL since 2015) [58] [59] | Ongoing
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ISIL insurgency in Tunisia (2015–2022) Location: Tunisia | Tunisia Algeria | Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
| Government victory
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Much of the history of Algeria has taken place on the fertile coastal plain of North Africa, which is often called the Maghreb. North Africa served as a transit region for people moving towards Europe or the Middle East, thus, the region's inhabitants have been influenced by populations from other areas, including the Carthaginians, Romans, and Vandals. The region was conquered by the Muslims in the early 8th century AD, but broke off from the Umayyad Caliphate after the Berber Revolt of 740. During the Ottoman period, Algeria became an important state in the Mediterranean sea which led to many naval conflicts. The last significant events in the country's recent history have been the Algerian War and Algerian Civil War.
Algerian nationalism is pride in the Algerian identity and culture. It has been historically influenced by the conflicts between the Deylik of Algiers and European countries, the French conquest of Algeria and the subsequent French colonial rule in Algeria, the Algerian War, and since independence by Arab socialism, Islamism and Arab nationalism.
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, better known as Abd el-Krim, was a Moroccan political and military leader and the president of the Republic of the Rif. He and his brother M'Hammad led a large-scale revolt by a coalition of Riffian tribes against the Spanish and French Protectorates of the Rif and the rest of Morocco. His guerrilla tactics, which included the first-ever use of tunneling as a technique of modern warfare, directly influenced Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong and Che Guevara. He also became one of the major figures of Arab nationalism, which he actively supported.
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.
Théodore Steeg was a lawyer and professor of philosophy who became Prime Minister of France.
The Zenata are a group of Berber tribes, historically one of the largest Berber confederations along with the Sanhaja and Masmuda. Their lifestyle was either nomadic or semi-nomadic.
The Sand War was a border conflict between Algeria and Morocco fought from September 25 to October 30, 1963, although a formal peace treaty was not signed until February 20, 1964. It resulted largely from the Moroccan government's claim to portions of Algeria's Tindouf and Béchar provinces. The Sand War led to heightened tensions between the two countries for several decades.
A tirailleur, in the Napoleonic era, was a type of light infantry trained to skirmish ahead of the main columns. Later, the term "tirailleur" was used by the French Army as a designation for indigenous infantry recruited in the French colonial territories during the 19th and 20th centuries, or for metropolitan units serving in a light infantry role.
The Islamic Salvation Army was the armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front, which was founded in Algeria on 18 July 1994. It was ordered to dissolve by the Supreme Court of Algeria in 1992. Since then, many of its members have either been arrested or forced into exile. The army had about 4,000 men in western and eastern Algeria, and later 40,000 men in 1994. It pledged allegiance to imprisoned FIS leaders Abbasi Madani and Ali Benhadj. It was supported by Libya and Saudi private donors, and allegedly by Morocco and Iran.
The Army of Africa was an unofficial but commonly used term for those portions of the French Army stationed in French North Africa from 1830 until the end of the Algerian War in 1962, including units made up of indigenous recruits.
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The Battle of Wadi al-Laban occurred in March–April 1558 between Saadians and Ottoman Algerian forces under Hasan Pasha, the son of Hayreddin Barbarossa. It took place north of Fes, at Wadi al-Laban, an affluent of the Sebou River, one day north of Fes.
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The Battle of Moulouya took place in May 1692 at a ford on the Moulouya river in Morocco. It was fought between the armies of the Alaouite Sultan Moulay Ismail and those of the Dey of Algiers Hadj Chabane.
The Campaign of Tlemcen or Tlemcen campaign was a military operation led by the Saadians of Mohammed ash-Sheikh against Tlemcen in 1557, then under the domination of the Regency of Algiers, a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire. Mohammed ash-Sheikh, who wanted to conquer Algeria, occupied the city but failed to seize the Mechouar Palace, which was defended by a garrison of 500 men under the command of Caïd Saffa.
The Conquest of Fez or Capture of Fez took place in 1554 between the Algerian forces of Salah Rais and the ruler of the Saadi Sultanate, Mohammed ash-Sheikh. The battle took place on 7 January at Qudyat-al-Mahali, a suburb near Fez and occurred after Salah Reis’ two previous victories against the Saadians, one at Taza and another at the Sebou river.
The Campaign of Tlemcen (1551) was a military operation led by the Regency of Algiers under Hasan Pasha and his ally Abdelaziz, following the capture of Tlemcen by the Saadi Sultanate in June 1550.
The Maghrebi war (1699–1702) was a conflict involving a Tunisian, Tripolitanian, and Moroccan coalition, and the Deylik of Algiers. It was an important milestone in the further weakening of the already fragile Ottoman grip over the Maghreb, as both sides utterly ignored the Ottoman sultan's pleas to sign a peace treaty. This war also led to the renewal of the Muradid infighting, which would later lead to the establishment of the Beylik of Tunis, and the Husainid dynasty in 1705.
the French lost their Algerian empire in military and political defeat by the FLN, just as they lost their empire in China in defeat by Giap and Ho Chi Minh.
For the [French] nation as a whole, commemoration of the Franco-Algerian War is complicated since it ended in defeat (politically, if not strictly militarily) rather than victory.
The death knell of the French empire was sounded by the bitterly fought Algerian war of independence, which ended in 1962.
The Algerian War came to an end in 1962, and with it closed some 130 years of French colonial presence in Algeria (and North Africa). With this outcome, the French Empire, celebrated in pomp in Paris in the Exposition coloniale of 1931 ... received its decisive death blow.
The independence of Algeria in 1962, after a long and bitter war, marked the end of the French Empire.
The difficult relationship which France has with the period of history dominated by the Algerian war has been well documented. The reluctance, which ended only in 1999, to acknowledge 'les évenements' as a war, the shame over the fate of the harki detachments, the amnesty covering many of the deeds committed during the war and the humiliation of a colonial defeat which marked the end of the French empire are just some of the reasons why France has preferred to look towards a Eurocentric future, rather than confront the painful aspects of its colonial past.
In this instance, unlike several others, the Cubans did no fighting; ; Algeria concluded an armistice with the Moroccan king.
L'armée française était en 1963 présente en Algérie et au Maroc. Le gouvernement français, officiellement neutre, comme le rappelle le Conseil des ministres du 25 octobre 1963, n'a pas pu empêcher que la coopération très étroite entre l'armée française et l'armée marocaine n'ait eu quelques répercussions sur le terrain. == The French Army was in 1963 present in Algeria and Morocco. The French government, officially neutral, as recalled by the Council of Ministers on October 25, 1963, could not prevent the very close cooperation between the French army and the Moroccan army from having some repercussions on the ground.