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unusual facts about Kouba, Algeria


Rudy Ricciotti

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


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.

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.

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).

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.


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