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Algiers
Algiers' coast.
Seal
Nickname: Algiers the White, Al-Bahjah
Location of Algiers within Algeria
Coordinates: 36°42′N 3°13′E / 36.7, 3.217
Country	Algeria
Wilaya	Algiers Province
Re-founded	AD 944
Government
- Wali (Governor)	Mohamed Kebir Addou
Population (2005)
- City	1,519,570
- Urban	2,029,936
- Metro	3,518,083
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
Postal codes	16000-16132

Algiers (Arabic: الجزائر, Standard Arabic: Al Jaza'ir IPA: [ɛlʤɛˈzɛːʔir], Algerian Arabic: Dzayer ([dzæjer] (From Berber pronunciation), Berber: , Ledzayer [ldzæjər], French: Alger [ɑlʒe]) is the capital and largest city of Algeria and the second in North Africa behind Casablanca in Morocco. According to the 1998 census the population of the city proper was 1,519,570, for the urban area was 2,135,630, for the metropolitan area 3,518,083, and for Algiers Province as a whole 5,723,749 (2006). So the urban area of Greater Algiers is the largest one in the Maghreb^[1].

Nicknamed El-Bahdja (البهجة) or Alger la Blanche ("Algiers the White") for the glistening white of its buildings as seen rising up from the sea, it is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The city name is derived from the Arabic word al-jazā’ir, which translates as the islands, referring to the four islands which lay off the city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525. Al-jazā’ir is itself a truncated form of the city's older name jazā’ir banī mazghannā, "the islands of (the tribe) Bani Mazghanna", used by early medieval geographers such as al-Idrisi and Yaqut al-Hamawi. Algiers is the only Algerian city with an English name different from its French name.

The modern part of the city is built on the level ground by the seashore and the old part, the ancient city of the deys, climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the casbah or citadel, 400 feet (122 m) above the sea. The casbah and the two quays form a triangle.

History

A Phoenician commercial outpost called Ikosim, later developed into a small Roman town called Icosium, existed on what is now the marine quarter of the city. The rue de la Marine follows the lines of a Roman street. Roman cemeteries existed near Bab-el-Oued and Bab Azoun. The city was given Latin rights by Vespasian. The bishops of Icosium are mentioned as late as the 5th century.

City and harbour of Algiers, circa 1921

The present city was founded in 944 by Buluggin ibn Ziri, the founder of the Berber Zirid-Senhaja dynasty, which was overthrown by Roger II of Sicily in 1148. The Zirids had before that date lost Algiers, which in 1159 was occupied by the Almohades, and in the 13th century came under the dominion of the Abd-el-Wadid sultans of Tlemcen.

Nominally part of the sultanate of Tlemcen, Algiers had a large measure of independence under amirs of its own, Oran being the chief seaport of the Abd-el-Wahid. The islet in front of the harbour, subsequently known as the Penon, had been occupied by the Spaniards as early as 1302. Thereafter, a considerable trade grew up between Algiers and Spain.

Algiers, however, continued to be of comparatively little importance until after the expulsion from Spain of the Moors, many of whom sought asylum in the city. In 1510, following their occupation of Oran and other towns on the coast of Africa, the Spaniards fortified the Penon. In 1516, the amir of Algiers, Selim b. Teumi, invited the corsair brothers Aruj and Khair ad-Din Barbarossa to expel the Spaniards. Arouj came to Algiers, caused Selim to be assassinated, and seized the town. Khair ad-Din, succeeding Arouj after the latter was killed in battle against the Spaniards at Tlemcen, was the founder of the pashaluk, afterwards beylik, of Algeria after formally inviting the Sultan to accept sovereignty over the territory and to annex Algiers to the Ottoman Empire.

The bombardment of Algiers by Lord Exmouth, August 1816, painted by Thomas Luny

Algiers from this time became the chief seat of the Barbary pirates. In October 1541, the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sought to capture the city, but a storm destroyed a great number of his ships, and his army of some 30,000, chiefly Spaniards, was defeated by the Algerians under their Pasha, Hassan. From the 17th century, Algiers, by then only formally part of the Ottoman Empire but essentially free of Ottoman control, sited on the periphery of both the Ottoman and European economic spheres, and depending for its existence on a Mediterranean that was increasingly controlled by European shipping, backed by European navies, turned to piracy and ransoming. Repeated attempts were made by various nations to subdue the pirates that disturbed shipping in the western Mediterranean and engaged in slave raids as far north as Cornwall. The United States fought two wars (the First and Second Barbary Wars) over Algiers' attacks on shipping.

In 1816, the city was bombarded by a British squadron under Lord Exmouth (a descendant of Thomas Pellew, taken in an Algerian slave raid in 1715), assisted by Dutch men-of-war, and the corsair fleet burned. The history of Algiers from 1830 to 1962 is bound to the larger history of Algeria and its relationship to France. On July 4, 1827, on the pretext of an affront to the French consul — whom the dey had hit with a fly-whisk when he said the French government was not prepared to pay its large outstanding debts to two Algerian Jewish merchants — a French army under General de Bourmont attacked the city, which capitulated the following day. Algiers became a French colony.

In 1962, after a bloody independence struggle in which up to 1.5 million Algerians died at the hands of the French Army and the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale, Algeria finally gained its independence, with Algiers as its capital. Since then, despite losing its entire European or pied-noir population, the city has expanded massively. It now has about 3 million inhabitants, or 10 percent of Algeria's population — and its suburbs now cover most of the surrounding Metidja plain.

Having hosted the All-Africa Games in 1978, Algiers will again host the games in 2007. Algiers is also the "Capital of Arabic Culture" for 2007.

War of Algeria

Algiers plays also a decisive part during the War of Algeria (1954-1962), in particular during the Battle of Algiers, during which the 10th Division parachutist of the French Army, from January 7, 1957, led hunting to the Algerian freedom fighters, on order of the Minister of Justice François Mitterrand, which gives him all capacities “to eliminate the insurrectionists”. The city counted 884.000 inhabitants then Algiers remains marked by this episode characterized by a fight without mercy between the freedom fighters resorting to the attacks anti-French and the French Army carrying out a bloody repression including the quasi-systematic use of torture against the protesters of the colonial order, such as the young professor of mathematics Maurice Audin, or the nationalist leader Larbi Ben Me hidi, honoured since by the municipality: principal arteries of the city bear their names. The manifestations of May 13, 1958 at the time of the crisis of May 1958 devote to it the fall of the Fourth Republic in France, as well as the return of the general of Gaulle to the businesses.

Independence

The Algerians celebrated the independence of Algeria on July 5, 1962. Directed by the soldiers, Algiers became a member of Non-aligned Movement during the Cold War. In October 1988, that is to say one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Algiers was the theatre of demonstrations claiming the end of the single party system, true democracy baptized “Spring of Algiers” (see the article: Riots of October 1988 in Algeria ). They were repressed by the authorities (more than 300 dead), but constitute a turning in the political history of modern Algeria. In 1989, a new constitution was adopted which puts an end to the reign of the single party and saw the creation of more than fifty political parties, as well as an officially total release of the newspaper industry.

Crisis of the years 1990

The city becomes then until 1992 the theatre of many political demonstrations of all tendencies. In 1991, a political formation dominated by religious conservatives, it FIS, engages a political iron arm with the authorities which shows élections that it is on the way to gain in 1992, with the favour of a massive abstention from the disillusioned Algerian voters by the turning of the events. The cancellation of the poll by the authorities marks the beginning of a news période of violences opposing the State to the religious ultraconservateurs made up in armed groups, until 1999. The social and cultural economic activity takes again colors with the favour of calms returned and of the ambitions of an avid young population of voyages and adventures.

Districts of Algiers

• The Casbah (of Al Qasbah , “the Citadel”), Ier District of Algiers: called Al-Djazaïr Al Mahroussa (“Well Kept Algiers”), it is founded on the ruins of old Icosium. It is a small city which, built on a hill, goes down towards the sea, divided in two: the High city and the Low city. One finds there masonries and mosques of the Template:XVIIe century; Ketchaoua mosque (built in 1794 by the Dey Baba Hassan) flanked of two minarets, mosque el Djedid (1660, at the time of Turkish regency) with its large finished ovoid cupola points some and its four coupolettes, mosque El Kébir (oldest of the mosques, it was built by almoravide Youssef Ibn Tachfin and rebuilt later in 1794), mosque Ali Betchnin (Raïs, 1623), Dar Aziza, palate of Jénina. The Kasbah, they is also labyrinths of lanes and houses picturesque; and if one loses oneself there, it is enough to go down again towards the sea to reposition itself.

• Bab El-Wadi : popular district which extends from the Kasbah beyond “the door of the river”. It is the district more chouchouté and more liked of all the districts of the capital. Famous for its place “the three clocks” and for its “market Triplet”, it is also a district of workshops and manufactures.
• Edge of sea : from 1840, the architects Pierre-August Guiauchain and Frederic Chassériau installed new constructions apart from the Kasbah, town hall, law courts, buildings, theatre, palate of the Governor, casino… to form an elegant walk bordered of arcades which is the boulevard today Che Guevara (ex-boulevard of Republic).

• Kouba (will daira of Hussein-dey): Kouba is an old village which was absorbed by the expansion of the town of Algiers. Of village, Kouba quickly developed under the French colonial era then more still with the favour of the formidable demographic expansion than Algiers knew after the independence of Algeria in 1962. It is today a district of Algiers with whole share made up mainly of houses, villas and buildings not exceeding the five stages.

• El Harrach, according to the name of the river which crosses this district. The mouth of this river played a very important part in the catch of Algiers and the Dogvane, this rock opposite Algiers occupied by the Spaniards. Indeed, at the beginning of the Template:XVIe century, with the call of the one of the dignitaries of Algiers autochthones who saw the progressive loss of the authority of the city in front of the occupation of the Dogvane by the Spaniards, one of the Barberousse brothers hid his fleet there before taking Algiers by surprised by the south-eastern side. This district of Algiers will be named House-Square by French, who will make the industrial park of the city of it. Thus, during colonization, as well El-Harrach as Hussein-Dey will be satellite towns of Algiers where Algerian autochthones more or less will cohabit with French, but in clearly separate zones. This city will be a residential district for an easy layer of French, but a true ghetto for the Algerians, especially those pushed by the rural migration.
  

  

  Commune d' El Biar
  El-Harrach was also a city which wrote a large page of sporting history with boxes and it football. After independence, El-Harrach will become gradually a district of Algiers, and later on chief town of Daira with a new cutting in districts, like Mohammadia, Belfort, Bellevue, the Park, Wadi-Smar, Five-Houses, the dunes, theMaritime ones, Beaulieu, etc.
• The communes of Hydra, Ben Aknoun, El-Biar and Bouzareah form what the inhabitants of Algiers name the heights of Algiers. These communes, sometimes famous knacks, shelter the majority of the foreign embassies of Algiers, of many ministries and university centers, which does of it one of the administrative poles and policy of the country.

• The street Didouche Mourade Ex Rue Michelet is located in the 3rd district Of Algiers. It extends from the Grande Post office until the Heights of Algiers. It crosses in particular the place Audin , the Faculty of Algiers , Crowned the Heart and the park of Galland . It is bordered of smart stores and restaurants on most of its length. It regarded as the heart of the capital.

Local architecture

Algiers is the capital and economic hub of Algeria

There are many public buildings of interest, including the whole Kasbah quarter, Martyrs Square (Sahat ech-Chouhada ساحة الشهداء), the government offices (formerly the British consulate), the "Grand", "New", and Ketchaoua Mosques, the Roman Catholic cathedral of Notre Dame d'Afrique, the Bardo Museum (a former Turkish mansion), the old Bibliotheque Nationale d'Alger — a Turkish palace built in 1799–1800 — and the new National Library, built in a style reminiscent of the British Library. The main building in the Kasbah was begun in 1516 on the site of an older building, and served as the palace of the deys until the French conquest. A road has been cut through the centre of the building, the mosque turned into barracks, and the hall of audience allowed to fall into ruin. There still remain a minaret and some marble arches and columns. Traces exist of the vaults in which were stored the treasures of the dey. The Grand Mosque (Jamaa-el-Kebir الجامع الكبير) is traditionally said to be the oldest mosque in Algiers. The pulpit (minbar منبر) bears an inscription showing that the building existed in 1018. The minaret was built by Abu Tachfin, sultan of Tlemcen, in 1324. The interior of the mosque is square and is divided into aisles by columns joined by Moorish arches. The New Mosque (Jamaa-el-Jedid الجامع الجديد), dating from the 17th century, is in the form of a Greek cross, surmounted by a large white cupola, with four small cupolas at the corners. The minaret is 90 feet (27 m) high. The interior resembles that of the Grand Mosque.

The church of the Holy Trinity (built in 1870) stands at the southern end of the rue d'Isly near the site of the demolished Fort Bab Azoun باب عزون. The interior is richly decorated with various coloured marbles. Many of these marbles contain memorial inscriptions relating to the English residents (voluntary and involuntary) of Algiers from the time of John Tipton, British consul in 1580. One tablet records that in 1631 two Algerine pirate crews landed in Ireland, sacked Baltimore, and carried off its inhabitants to slavery; another recalls the romantic escape of Ida M’Donnell, daughter of Admiral Ulric, consul-general of Denmark, and wife of the British consul. When Lord Exmouth was about to bombard the city in 1816, the British consul was thrown into prison and loaded with chains. Mrs M’Donnell — who was but sixteen — escaped to the British fleet disguised as a midshipman, carrying a basket of vegetables in which her baby was hidden. (Mrs M’Donnell subsequently married the duc de Talleyrand-Perigord and died at Florence in 1880). Among later residents commemorated is Edward Lloyd, who was the first person to show the value of esparto grass for the manufacture of paper, and thus started an industry which is one of the most important in Algeria. The Ketchaoua mosque (Djamaa Ketchaoua جامع كتشاوة), at the foot of the Casbah, was before independence in 1962 the cathedral of St Philippe, itself made in 1845 from a mosque dating from 1612. The principal entrance, reached by a flight of 23 steps, is ornamented with a portico supported by four black-veined marble columns. The roof of the nave is of Moorish plaster work. It rests on a series of arcades supported by white marble columns. Several of these columns belonged to the original mosque. In one of the chapels was a tomb containing the bones of San Geronimo. The building seems a curious blend of Moorish and Byzantine styles.

Algiers possesses a college with schools of law, medicine, science and letters. The college buildings are large and handsome. The Bardo museum holds some of the ancient sculptures and mosaics discovered in Algeria, together with medals and Algerian money. The port of Algiers is sheltered from all winds. There are two harbours, both artificial — the old or northern harbour and the southern or Agha harbour. The northern harbour covers an area of 235 acres (95 ha). An opening in the south jetty affords an entrance into Agha harbour, constructed in Agha Bay. Agha harbour has also an independent entrance on its southern side. The inner harbour was begun in 1518 by Khair-ad-Din Barbarossa (see History, below), who, to accommodate his pirate vessels, caused the island on which was Fort Penon to be connected with the mainland by a mole. The lighthouse which occupies the site of Fort Penon was built in 1544.

Algiers was a walled city from the time of the deys until the close of the 19th century. The French, after their occupation of the city (1830), built a rampart, parapet and ditch, with two terminal forts, Bab Azoun باب عزون to the south and Bab-el-Oued باب الواد to the north. The forts and part of the ramparts were demolished at the beginning of the 20th century, when a line of forts occupying the heights of Bouzareah بوزريعة (at an elevation of 1,300 feet (396 m) above the sea) took their place. Notre-Dame d'Afrique, a church built (1858–1872) in a mixture of the Roman and Byzantine styles, is conspicuously situated, overlooking the sea, on the shoulder of the Bouzareah hills, 2 miles (3.2 km) to the north of the city. Above the altar is a statue of the Virgin depicted as a black woman. The church also contains a solid silver statue of the archangel Michael, belonging to the confraternity of Neapolitan fishermen.

Villa Abd-el-Tif, former residence of the dey, was used during the French period, to accommodate French artists, chiefly painters, and winners of the Abd-el-Tif prize, among whom Maurice Boitel, for a while of two years. Nowadays, Algerian artists are back in the villa's studios.

Monuments

The Monument of the Martyrs (Maquam E’chahid)

• Notre Dame d'Afrique , accessible by one cable car, is one of its most outstanding monuments: located in the district of Z' will ghara, the basilica was built around 1858.
• Monument of the Martyrs ( Maquam E' chahid ): Set up with the site of the war memorial of the second world war natives of Algeria, destroyed by the Algerian government, high of 90 meters and overhanging Algiers, this monument was built by a Canadian company in 1984, and is composed of three palms resting on a vast esplanade where the “eternal flame is”. It is dedicated to the memory of the combatants of guerre of independence of the country.
• Place of the Emir Abdelkader (ex-place Bugeaud): in memory of the famous emir Abd El-Kader, resistant during conquête of Algeria.
• the Large Post office (1910, by Voinot and Tondoire): construction of the néo-Moorish type which is in full centre town of Algiers.
• Garden of Test ( El-Hamma ): located has Is of Algiers, it extends on a surface from 80 hectares. It was created in 1832 by A. Hardy. Exotic plants and gardens there are found.
• Villa Abd-el-Hair , with the top of the Garden of test, one of the old residences of the dey, where until 1962, were placed the artists prizes winner of Price Abd-el-Hair, and in particular Maurice Boitel and Andre Hamburg.
• Citadel .
• Riadh El-Feth (shopping centre and art gallery).
• Large Mosque of Algiers (This mosque became the Saint-Philippe cathedral during colonization before becoming again a mosque).
• National Library , is in the district of El HAMMA.Elle has an architecture modèrne and marries the decoration perfectly.

Economy

Algiers is an important economic, commercial financial pole, in particular with a stock exchange recording an annual capitalisation of 60 billion euros. The port of Algiers is also the most important of West Africa. Mohamed Ben Ali El Abbar, president of the Council d administration of the group émirien EMAAR, presented five megaprojets at Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, at the time d'une ceremony which s'est déruolée Saturday (July 15) with the Palate of the People d'Alger. The projects will transform the d'Alger city and its surroundings, to equip them d'un "ensemble single commercial d'installations, of restoration and leisures, " explained the President. The first project will concentrate on the reorganization and the development of the infrastructures of the railway station "Aga ", located at the downtown area. Ultramodern, the station, intended to accomodate more than 80.000 passengers per day, will become a pole of circulation in the heart of the grid system, surrounded of commercial offices and buildings like d'hôtels intended for the travellers in transit. A shopping centre, as by three high-rise office buildings s'élevant with the top of the commercial zone will accompany the project. The second project, as for him, will relate to the bay d'Alger and aims to revitalize the sea front. The development of the 4,4 km sea front will include/understand marinas, channels, hotels of luxury, offices, apartments of great standing, stores of luxury and zones of leisures. A peninsula in the shape of crescent of the moon will be set up on the open sea. The project of the bay d'Alger will also comprise six small islands, of which four of round form, connected to each other by bridges and marinas and will include/understand tourist and residential complexes. The third project will relate to complex construction d'un of re-arrangement for the d'Alger city, already qualified by the originators of the project of "city of the bien-être". El Abbar indicated to the journalists that the complex would be "agréable for all those which will want to combine tourism and care or tourism and détente". The complex will include/understand a university, a research center and a medical centre. It should also include/understand a hospital complex, a center of care, a hotel zone, an urban centre and a thermal spa with its villas and its apartments. L university will include/understand a medical school and a school of care male nurses which will be able to accomodate 500 students. The university campus will have the possibility of seeing setting up broad ranges of buildings of research laboratories and residences. Another project relates to technological l implantation d'un campus in Sidi Abdellah, to 25 km in south-east d'Alger. The site, d'une surface of 90 hectares, will include/understand shopping centres, residential zones with the apartments of great standing and a course of golf length of which will be contruits villas and hotels. Two other residential zones, including/understanding 1.800 apartments and 40 villas of great standing, will be built on the surrounding hills. The fifth project is that of the tourist complex Colonel Abbès, who will be located at 25 km with l'ouest d'Alger. This complex will include/understand several commercial zones, places of meetings and residential zones being composed d'appartements and of villas with sight on the sea.

Tourist Installations

To some 20 km in the west of Algiers seaside resorts are such as Sidi Fredj (ex-Sidi Ferruch), Palm Beach, Douaouda, Zéralda, the Club of the Pines (residence of State); one will find there complexes tourist, Algerian and different restaurants, souvenir shops, supervised beaches, etc the city is also equipped with important hotel complexes such as the hotel Hilton, El-Aurassi or El Djazair. Algiers also obtained the first watery park of the country. Located at ten minutes of the city while going towards the East, Kiffan Club extends on a surface from 2 hectares. Large adult basin, several basins children as well as large toboggans, the site includes/understands several points of restoration. With dimensions is the Karting Escape, who opened his doors in 2005, with a long track 700 meters and having three categories different of karts. Aquafortland comes to supplement this decoration with a ludic swimming pool spread out over 1,5 hectares, and having all the conveniences necessary for the wellbeing of the customer. The tourism of Algiers be in full rise but be not also develop than that of large city of Morocco or of Tunisia.

Transports

• the ETUSA (urban and suburban Haulage company of Algiers) has bus as of the mégabus since 2006 which serves the capital like its suburbs. 54 lines are currently operational and the service is ensured of 5h30 0h45.

• SNTF (national Company of the rail-bound transports) operates on lines connecting the capital to the of Algiers suburbs starting from the of Algiers stations.

• Houari Boumedienne Airport managed by EGSA (Undertaken management of the airport services) at 20 kms is located. The majority of the airline companies had suspended their service road towards Algiers since the taking of hostages on December 24, 1994 of the flight Air France Flight AF 8969 but the majority returned since. The airport serves the majority of the European cities, it West Africa, it the Middle East and soon it North America with the startup as of June 2007 of the direct flight Algiers Montreal. Inaugurated on July 5, 2006 new an air terminal International is from now on in service. Its very modern infrastructures can better manage the flow of the international traffics. The company Airports of Paris, gére this news large installation.

Quinquennial projects of the wilaya of Algiers

• To make up the enormous deficit which the town of Algiers as regards transport knows, this one will be equipped with one tram which will connect it downtown area to Dergana (operational in 2009), of a line of subway Tafourah-Large Harrach Post office-El (operational in 2008) and several lines RER Algiers-Aga-Thenia, Algiers-Aga-Elafroun, Algiers-Aga-Zeralda. Be added to all this the reorganization of Etusa (Haulage company Urbain and Suburbain of Algiers), the realization of three new cable car S from here 2009, the rehabilitation of four what exists as well as the refitting of roadway system. It is also a question of the restoration of the station of Algiers (Aga) to accommodate the future line High-speed rail Annaba-Algiers-Oran.
• Most important, c'est the d'Emaar project which discusses with the government on the rehabilitation and modernization d'une good part of the bay d'Alger. An investment of more than 28 billion dollars spread out over several years which will change l'image completely l'est capital, with buildings and hotels high standing, a city of medicine.
• In addition, in response to the increase always increasing in the automobile park, and parallel to the installation of way S and roundabouts, of échangeurs and of the sections of motorway were built right now, and others are in the course of construction in order to improve the traffic in the metropolis.

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• One of the most ambitious projects is the installation of bay of Algiers which will include/understand a mall of two kilometers, it Marriots hotel Algiers, spaces of relaxation, a business district a with shopping centre, and finally, the future large one mosque of Algiers. This mosque will be the second largest in the world with a capacity of reception of more than 80,000 faithful. A school - at the same time école and school of science the S - y will be attached, bordered by parks.

• Construction of two seaside resorts on the of Algiers littoral.

• Park of the high winds which is located at the west of Algiers: it will be largest in the world; many species of trees and plants will be planted there.

• The new town of Sidi Abdellah which will include/understand a technological pole and of research, like residences.

• Within the framework of the project of a million residences that the state launched, Algiers will benefit from additional residences to the program of 2001 and 2004, in order to fight effectively against the current housing shortage.

Sports

Algiers is the largest sporting pole of Algeria. Cash clubs in the whole of the disciplines, and which conquered many national and international titles, it also counts an enormous sporting complex (Complex of OCO - Mohamed Boudiaf), which gathers the Olympic stage of July 5 (of a capacity of 80,000 places), a stage annexes for athletics, an Olympic swimming pool, a room multisports (the Cupola), a golf 18 holes, and several courts of tennis.

Algiers already accommodated the following sporting events (not-exhaustive list):

• Mediterranean Plays 1975.
• Panafrican Plays 1978.
• Cut of Africa of the Nations of Association football 1990.
• Cut of Africa of the Nations of Team Handball 2001.
• Jeux plays panarabes 2004.
• Cross-country race from Africa of the Nations of Basketball 2005.
• World cup juniors by Volleyball 2005.
• African's plays 2007

20 August 1955 Stadium

Clubs of football

Principal clubs of association football of the city (having already evolved/moved in Division 1):

• MC Algiers
• USM Algiers
• CR Belouizdad
• NA Hussein Dey
• Paradou AC
• USM El Harrach
• RC Kouba
• OMR El Anasser
• DNC Algiers

Sister relationships

Algiers has sister relationships with a number of cities worldwide:

In addition, many of the wards and cities within Algiers maintain sister-city relationships with other foreign cities.

Films about Algiers

• La Battle of Algiers, 1966, realized by Gillo Pontecorvo
• Bab City El-Wadi, 1994, carried out by Merzak Allouache over the black period of the Nineties
• Viva aldjery, 2003, realized by Nadir Moknèche. With Biyouna and Lubna Azabal
• Bab el Web, 2004, carried out by Merzak Allouache with Samy Naceri, Julie Gayet, Faudel
• It was once in the wadi, 2005, realized by Djamel Bensalah.
• Beur, White, Red, 2005, realized by Mahmoud Zemmouri.

References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

See also

• List of Pasha and Dey of Algiers

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