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21 unusual facts about Algeria


Battle of El-Moungar

In the early twentieth century, France faced numerous incidents, attacks and looting by uncontrolled armed groups in the newly controlled areas to the south of Oran (Algeria).

Belkacem Radjef

Belkacem Radjef (1909-1989) was born in Fort-National (today Larbaâ Nath Irathen, Tizi Ouzou Province), Algeria and spent 32 years of his life in the fight to liberate Algeria from French colonialism.

Chief of Staff of the People's National Army

The Chief of Staff of the People's National Army is the highest position in the Algerian People's National Army.

Filfla

:for the commune of Algeria see Filfla, Algeria

François Giuliani

François Giuliani (5 August 1938, Algiers - 22 June 2009, Bruges) was an Algerian journalist and publicist.

Houria Aïchi

Houria Aïchi (حورية عايشي ; Batna) is an Algerian Berber singer of chaoui music.

Jijel Arabic

Pre-Hilalian Arabic dialects remained intact only in a small area around Jijel while they were heavily mixed with bedouin dialects in the areas of Constantine, Mila, Collo and El Milia.

Ljiljana Smajlović

At the age of nine, along with her mother and sister, young Ljiljana went to Algeria where she attended a French boarding school (internat).

Mohamed Bencheneb

Bencheneb taught at the Graduate School of Arts of Algiers before being sent in 1898 to a professorship at the Madrasas of Constantine where he remained for three years.

Nahr al-Bared

Other sectors are more commonly known by the origins of the families living there: e.g. the "Maghrebi" area where families originally from Algeria, Tunisia or Morocco who had moved to Palestine in the 1930s now live.

Nebel, Germany

The sailor Hark Olufs, a native of Süddorf, became famous in the 18th century while serving the Bey of Constantine, Algeria.

Paul Margueritte

Paul Margueritte (1860-1918) was born in Algeria, the son of General Jean Auguste Margueritte (1823-1870), who was mortally wounded in the Battle of Sedan.

Rudy Ricciotti

He was born in Kouba, Algeria of Italian origin on August 22, 1952 and moved to France at the age of three.

Rym Amari

This mark as a comeback for Algeria in the international pageant scene since 2002 when they competed in Miss World.

Ten years after the last sacred Miss Algeria, a jury headed by French Genevieve de Fontenay was elected, June 21, Rym Amari, 19, in Oran, western countries.Twenty candidates, mostly from Algiers which Rym Amari, marched in a room of the Hotel Meridien face more than 2000 spectators and jury which also included actor Smaïn, of Algerian origin.These young women appeared dressed in traditional clothing, city and evening.

The contest Miss Algeria, launched in 1996 during the civil war was interrupted in 2003 after the death of the copyright holder Cheradi Hamdad.

San Geronimo

The alleged finding of human remains, designated San Geronimo, in 1853 afforded striking confirmation of an incident recorded by a Spanish Benedictine named Diego de Haëdo, who published a topography of Algeria in 1612.

Sayada

:for the town and commune of Algeria see Sayada, Algeria

Sheikh Hamada

He revised gasba music, which influenced the area of Dahra, and thus was a large influence on the chaâbi music repertoire, which is one of the most popular musical genres in North Africa today.

Yahia Benmabrouk

Traumatized, this attack took him away from the scenes for almost two years; and he left Algeria for France.However, his stay there would be short-lived because of a very important task.

Yahia Benmabrouk (1928 – 2004) is an Algerian comedian and film actor, born on March 30 on 1928 in Algiers and dead on October 8, 2004 in Bab El Oued.


2010 Algeria earthquake

On 14 May 2010 at 12:29:22 UTC, a 5.1 earthquake occurred in Northern Algeria in Bouïra Province.

2014 African Men's Handball Championship

The 2014 African Men's Handball Championship was held in Algiers and Chéraga, Algeria, from 16 to 25 January 2014.

Aar Maanta

Maanta has since worked with various other artists including Algerian Raï singer Abdelkader Saadoun, UK hip hop group the Choong Family, and Somali musicians Maryam Mursal and Ahmed 'Hudeydi' Ismail Hussein.

Abdellah Liegeon

He spent his career in France, playing with Besançon RC, AS Monaco FC and RC Strasbourg and was part of Algeria's team at the 1986 FIFA World Cup, where his defensive mistake allowed Brazil's Careca to score the only goal of the game in the two countries' first-round encounter.

Abu Hammu II

Abu Hammu II (died 1389) was an Abdalwadid Sultan of the Kingdom of Tlemcen in Algeria in the 14th century.

African Union

Moroccan delegates also participate at important AU functions, and negotiations continue to try to resolve the conflict with the Polisario Front in Tindouf, Algeria and the parts of Western Sahara.

Afrika Korps

After the defeat at El Alamein and the Allied landings in Morocco and Algeria Operation Torch, the OKW once more upgraded its presence in Africa by creating the XC Army Corps in Tunisia on 19 November 1942, and then creating a new 5th Panzer Army headquarters there as well on 8 December, under the command of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim.

Aïn Bénian

Aïn Bénian, Aïn Defla, a municipality or commune in Aïn Defla province, Algeria

Algerian cuisine

Algeria previously produced a large quantity of wine during the French colonization but production has decreased since its independence.

Alice Cherki

She has written a number of books including Frantz Fanon: A Portrait which is based on her personal recollections of working with Fanon in Algeria and in Tunisia.

Anthony P. Damato

He was advanced in rate for especially meritorious conduct in action while serving aboard ship at the port city of Arzew, Algeria, on November 8, 1942.

Brian Flanagan

The FBI surveillance files on Weatherman reported that on October 20, 1970 Flanagan was in Algeria meeting with Eldridge Cleaver, exiled Black Panther Party leader.

C. africanum

Cyclamen africanum, the African cyclamen, a perennial plant species native to northern Algeria and Tunisia

Christophe Caze

Returning to France, he led a group of mostly Algerian terrorists, based in Roubaix, France on a spree of robbing banks, armoured cars and shops - before they were raided at their apartment after police discovered a bomb inside a Peugeot three blocks from the 1996 G7 meeting.

Fatima Gallaire

She was born in 1944 in Algeria, and holds a degree in French literature from the University of Algiers, and one in cinema from Paris 8 University.

France–Morocco relations

After the troubled periods of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, France again showed a strong interest in Morocco in the 1830s, as a possible extension of her sphere of influence in the Maghreb, after Algeria and Tunisia.

French legislative election, 1962

Since 1959 and the change of Algerian policy (Charles de Gaulle decided in favour of the "self-government" and "Algerian Algeria"), France had faced bomb attacks by the Secret Armed Organization (Organisation armée secrète or OAS) which opposed the independence of Algeria, negotiated by the FLN with the March 1962 Evian agreements and approved by referendum by the French people.

Gemella

:For the settlement in Algeria, see M'Lili.

Georges Adda

In April 1940, he was placed under house arrest at Zaghouan, then at Béja where he stayed until November 13, 1943, when he fled to neighbouring Algeria.

Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec

He did military service between 1951 and 1953 in the French Foreign Legion at Sidi-bel-Abbès and Daya in Algeria.

Jean-François Copé

His maternal grandparents were Ismael André Ghanassia, a lawyer in Algiers (son of Moïse Ghanassia and Djouhar Soussi, from Miliana, in Algeria), and Lise Boukhabza (granddaughter of a Tunisian rabbi).

Jean-Paul Vesco

After passing through the École Biblique, he moved to Algeria to Tlemcen in the Diocese of Oran where he responded to the call of his order to refound a Dominican presence, six years after the assassination of Monsignor Pierre Claverie.

Joseph Blakesley

Blakesley was the author of the first English Life of Aristotle (1839), an edition of Herodotus (1852–1854) in the Bibliotheca Classica, and Four Months in Algeria (1859).

Josyane De Jesus-Bergey

Influenced by the culture of Mediterranean peoples, several poems of Josyane De Jesus Bergey are dedicated to the Arab nations such as the Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish and the Algerian Mohamed Dib.

JS El Biar

Jeunesse Sportive d'El Biar, referred to commonly as JS El Biar or JSEB for short, is an Algerian football club based in the El Biar district of Alger, Algeria.

Kad Merad

Kad Merad was born in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, on March 27, 1964 to an Algerian father and a French mother.

Larbi Benboudaoud

Larbi Benboudaoud (born 5 March 1974 in Bordj Zemoura, Algeria) is a judoka from France, who won the silver medal in the half lightweight (– 66 kg) division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Lounès Matoub

Lounès Matoub (in Kabyle: Lwennas Maṭub, in Tifinagh: ⵍⵡⴻⵏⵏⴰⵙ ⵎⴰⵟⵓⴱ, Algerian Arabic: مطوب لوناس) (January 24, 1956 – June 25, 1998) was a famous Berber Kabyle singer,poet,thinker and mondol player who was a prominent advocate of the Berber cause, human rights and secularism in Algeria throughout his life.

Lourmel Airfield

Lourmel Airfield is an abandoned military airfield in Algeria, located in the El Amria area.

Maghreb Championships

North African Championship, a former football competition between French Algeria, French Morocco and French Tunisia

Major Bludd

Born in Sydney, Australia, Sebastian Bludd was trained by the Australian Special Air Service, served with that regiment in South East Asia, left to join the French Foreign Legion and saw action in Algeria, all before becoming a mercenary.

Mourad Sahraoui

At the 2007 All-Africa Games he fought at heavyweight and defeated David Assiene of Cameroon and Abdelaziz Toulbini of Algeria in the first rounds and then Lateef Kayode of Nigeria in the final.

Newfel Ouatah

Ouatah's the cousin of French football player Karim Benzema, Newfel's and Karim's families are from the same town in Algeria (Ath Djellil).

Nimotuzumab

in Argentina, EL KENDI Pharmaceutical in Algeria and Laboratorios PiSA in Mexico.

Northern Songhay languages

The sedentary varieties include Sawaq (Tasawaq) in northern Niger (with two dialects, Ingelsi in In-Gall and the extinct Emghedeshie of Agadez) and Korandje far to the north, 150 km east of the Algerian–Moroccan border at Tabelbala.

Nouvion Airfield

Nouvion Airfield was a pre-war airport and World War II military airfield in Algeria, located about 5 km west of Camp Militaire d' El Ghomri in Mascara province; about 76 km east of Oran.

Orangina

Production was moved to the city of Marseille in metropolitan France in 1962 in the run-up to Algeria's independence.

Pál Lakatos

A year later he fought for the TWBA Super Flyweight Title in Torredembarra, but was beaten by Algeria-born Lahcene Zemmouri from Spain.

Plasmodium foleyi

It was discovered in a spenectomised Lemur fulvus rufus in 1951 and it is named after Dr. H. Foley of the Pasteur Institute of Algeria.

Sadok Chaabane

Moreover, he taught in many universities, namely in Syracuse (Italy), Nice, Aix en Provence and Strasbourg (France), Ben Aknoune (Algeria), and others.

Saïd Mohammedi

During World War II, he joined the Mufti to work with the German Luftwaffe, hoping that Hitler's defeat of France would lead to the liberation of Algeria and other French colonies.

Slimane Khalfaoui

Khalfaoui with Algerian-British Rabah Kadre, participated in a reported attempt to attack the London Underground, with poisoning substances scheduled in late 2002.

Tarik Brahmi

Born in Lyon, France with a father from Toudja, Algeria, he graduated from the Université de Montpellier in 1991 with a degree in Microelectronics and Control Engineering.

Termit Massif Reserve

WWF has classified this reserve as part of the larger ecoregion of the South Saharan Steppe and Woodlands ecoregion that includes a strip of desert land which extends from central Mauritania, Mali, southwestern Algeria, Niger, Chad, and across Sudan to the Red Sea, and borders southern fringes of the Sahara Desert.

Transport in Tunisia

Tunisia has rail links with the neighbouring country of Algeria via the Ghardimaou-Souk Ahras line, and another connection to Tébessa, however, the latter link is currently not used.

Youcef Yousfi

In 1997, he was appointed minister of oil and energy and also, was first elected as a member of the People's National Assembly of Algeria.

Zemla Intifada

June 17 is now commemorated by Polisario supporters in Tindouf, Algeria, and has been used as a reference day for protests in Western Sahara.