Tag: Algeria

First residents 1.8 million years ago the first people lived in what is now Algeria. They found hand axes made of stone. The oldest…

The decolonization of Algeria became the bloodiest chapter in African colonial history. In the 1950s, both Morocco and Tunisia became independent states, but France wanted to hold on to Algeria,…

France’s involvement in Algeria began in 1830 with military force, and ended in 1962 after a comprehensive war of liberation. Algeria was formally not a…

When Almohade dynasty fell apart in the mid-1200s did the Maghreb region, in practice the four-division which still exists, with the states Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and…

Algeria’s foreign policy has changed in pace with the development of domestic politics, and its orientation away from the more ideologically entrenched socialist direction…

Algeria’s ancient history is about the history of the country from prehistoric times, through Roman and Arab rule, until the country was conquered by…

The state of Algeria with its present borders first existed in the 20th century, as a result of French colonialism. Prior to this, Arab…

Algeria is a republic in North Africa. The country borders in the west to Morocco, Mauritania and Mali in the southwest, Niger in the…

From the early 1900s saw the emergence of an Algerian nationalism among the country’s Muslim population, as well as among the colonists (Colons). The latter sought autonomy…