Portal:Algeria

Algeria
الجزائر (Arabic)
*al-Jazair*
Algeria الجزائر (Arabic); al-Jazair
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	Location of Algeria (dark green)
ISO 3166 code	DZ

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Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in North Africa. Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. It is considered part of the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has a semi-arid geography, with most of the population living in the fertile north and the Sahara dominating the geography of the south. Algeria covers an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), making it the world's tenth largest nation by area, and the largest nation in Africa, more than 200 times as large as the continent’s smallest country, The Gambia. With a population of 44 million, Algeria is the tenth-most populous country in Africa, and the 32nd-most populous country in the world. The capital and largest city is Algiers, located in the far north on the Mediterranean coast.

The Spanish expansionism led to the establishment of Ottoman Algeria in 1516, a state that attracted people from all over the Mediterranean, making its capital Algiers one of the largest, wealthiest, and most cosmopolitan cities in the world. Its decline in the 19th century resulted in its invasion by the French in 1830. The conquest and pacification of the country that ensued lasted until 1903 and led to Algeria becoming an integral part of France in 1848 and home to over a million European settlers. The Sétif and Guelma massacre in 1945 marked a turning point in Franco-Algerian relations and sparked the Algerian War which concluded with Algeria gaining its independence on 5 July 1962 and the proclamation of the People's Democratic Republic on 25 September of that year. (Full article...)

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In 2011, the then Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika lifted a state of emergency that had been in place since the end of the Algerian Civil War in 2002, as a result of the Arab Spring protests that had occurred throughout the Arab world.

Serious challenges to human rights in Algeria have included substantial restrictions of freedom of association, assembly and movement, alongside state control over freedom of expression and of the press, extensive corruption, official impunity, overuse of pre-trial detention, substandard prison conditions, prisoner abuse, absence of a free judiciary, violence and discrimination against women, limited workers' rights, and arbitrary killings by government agents. In 2017, Human Rights Watch reported the Algerian government had increasingly resorted to criminal prosecutions against bloggers, journalists, and media figures for peaceful speech, via articles in the country's penal code criminalising "offending the president", "insulting state officials" and "denigrating Islam", in addition to dismissing peaceful demonstrations as "unauthorised gatherings". (Full article...)

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The following are images from various Algeria-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Algeria in 1824 alongside Alaouite Morocco before the French colonisation. (from History of Algeria)
Image 2Poster to garner Algerian support for the struggle in France during World War 2. "France is speaking to you" with clippings from French Resistance newspapers from 1942 and 1943 (from History of Algeria)
Image 3Map of Numidia (from History of Algeria)
Image 4Kingdom of Kuku (blue) just east of Algiers (from History of Algeria)
Image 5Purchase of Christian slaves by French friars (Religieux de la Mercy de France) in Algiers in 1662 (from History of Algeria)
Image 6Almohad dynasty and surrounding states, c. 1200. (from History of Algeria)
Image 7Moufdi Zakaria, a 1908-1977 poet from the Algerian Revolution (from Culture of Algeria)
Image 8Liberation of slaves after the Bombardment of Algiers (1683) (from History of Algeria)
Image 9Parts of Algeria and neighbouring countries formed a part of the Roman Empire (from History of Algeria)
Image 10The mausoleum of king Juba II and Cleopatra Selene II in Tipaza (from History of Algeria)
Image 11Lands controlled by the Maghrawa in the first half of the 11th century (from History of Algeria)
Image 12Phases of the expansion of the Almohad state (from History of Algeria)
Image 13Ruins of the Mansura Mosque, begun by the Marinids in 1303 during their siege of Tlemcen (from History of Algeria)
Image 14Roman inscription from Agueneb in the Laghouat Province (from History of Algeria)
Image 15The Bombardment of Algiers in 1816, by Martinus Schouman (from History of Algeria)
Image 16Statue of Abd al Mumin in Tlemcen, Algeria (from History of Algeria)
Image 17The Almohads transferred the capital of Al-Andalus to Seville. (from History of Algeria)
Image 18Ottoman Algeria in 1560. (from History of Algeria)
Image 19Masinissa (from History of Algeria)
Image 20A man of Tlemcen (from History of Algeria)
Image 21Kingdom of Beni Abbas in the 16th century during the reign of Ahmed Amokrane (from History of Algeria)
Image 22Coin of the Hafsids with ornemental Kufic, Bougie, Algeria, 1249–1276. (from History of Algeria)
Image 23Monument to the victims of the Sétif and Guelma massacre, Kherrata (from History of Algeria)
Image 24Chronological map of the conquest of Algeria (1830-1956) (from History of Algeria)
Image 25Coin minted during the reign of Abu Yaqub Yusuf (from History of Algeria)
Image 26Couscous (Arabic: كسكس) with vegetables and chickpeas, the national dish of Algeria (from Culture of Algeria)
Image 27Hammadid territory circa 1050 (in green), and extended territories (dotted line) controlled in certain periods (from History of Algeria)

Did you know...

... that in Algeria potatoes are grown in sand in the Sahara desert?
... that in 2022, Emmanuel Macron recognized the 1962 Isly killings of French citizens in Algeria by the French army as a massacre?
... that Albert Camus's novel The Plague is based on an epidemic in Oran, Algeria, and examines how a government could turn tyrannical?
... that when offered, soldiers under Russian general V. P. Taranovsky chose imprisonment in Algeria rather than continuing to fight or serving as labourers?
... that the 1994 Mascara earthquake destroyed every house in the Algerian villages of Shadlia, Hacine and Sidi Ali Cherif?
... that Zahia Mentouri was credited with training all pediatric anesthetists in western Algeria?

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Abdelmadjid Tebboune (Arabic: عبد المجيد تبون, romanized: ʿAbd al-Majīd Tabbūn; born 17 November 1945) is an Algerian politician currently serving as the President of Algeria since December 2019 and as Minister of Defence.

He took over the power from former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and former Acting Head of State Abdelkader Bensalah. Previously, he was Prime Minister of Algeria from May 2017 to August 2017. In addition, he was also Minister of Housing from 2001 to 2002 for a year and again from 2012 to 2017 for 5 years. (Full article...)

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Houari Boumediene Abdelaziz Bouteflika Omar Derdour Albert Camus Ahmed Ben Bella

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Chakhchoukha or chekhechoukha (Arabic: شخشوخة)is a traditional Algerian dish made from torn or rolled pieces of cooked semolina dough that are served in a flavorful tomato-based sauce. The dish consists of small pieces of rougag (thin round flatbread) mixed with marqa, a tomato stew. The dish is typically made by boiling the semolina dough in salted water until it is cooked and then rolling it into small balls or tearing it into bite-sized pieces. (Full article...)

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Algerian cuisine Couscous Karantita Mazagran (drink) Shakshouka Algerian wine Sidi Brahim (wine) Makroudh Mouna Sfenj Chermoula Chorba Mesfouf Méchoui M'semen Potato production in Algeria

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