Algeria History

History
Algeria (/ælˈdʒɪəriə/ (About this sound listen); Arabic: الجزائر‎ al-Jazā'ir, familary Algerian Arabic الدزاير al-dzāyīr) The official name is the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria and is a country in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast. Algiers is the capital and most populous city, located in the far north of the country.

Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the west by Morocco, to the southwest by the Western Saharan territory, Mauritania, and Mali, to the southeast by Niger, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country is a semi-presidential republic consisting of 48 provinces and 1,541 counties.

Ancient Algeria has known many empires and dynasties, including ancient Numidians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Umayyads, Abbasids, Idrisid, Aghlabid, Rustamid, Fatimids, Zirid, Hammadids, Almoravids, Almohads, Spaniards, Ottomans and the French colonial empire. Berbers are the indigenous inhabitants of Algeria.

With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres or 919,595 sq miles, Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, the largest in Africa and the Arab world since South Sudan became independent from Sudan in 2011. 

Timeline
1505 - 1510 Spain took control of a few coastal towns 1514 - 1815 Barbary pirates killed thousands of Christain and non-islam people 1516 - 1830 Algiers was partially ruled by Ottomans 1620 - 1740 Plague killed between 30,000 and 50,000 people 1830 - French invaded and captured Algeria 1825 - 1847 50,000 French emigrated 1848 - 1962 Hundreds of thousands immigrated 1850 - 1872 1/3rd of indigenous Algerians were killed by violence and disease 1945 - 1954 Algerian War and between 30,000 and 150,000 people were killed 1945 - 1954 During this time 2 million people were uprooted and 700,000 killed 1962 - Oran Massacre 1962 - Algeria received independence from France 1991 - 1997 Militants conducted a violent campaign of civilian massacres and hundreds of :thousands were killed 1991 - 2002 Civil War 100,000 died

History Links

 * History of Algeria
 * Arab Culture - TOTA, gives general information about Arab Culture