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  • 1Algiers — /al jearz /, n. 1. a seaport in and the capital of Algeria, in the N part. 1,839,000. 2. one of the former Barbary States in N Africa: now modern Algeria. * * * Arabic Al Jazāʾir French Alger City (pop., 1998: 1,519,570), chief seaport and… …

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  • 2The Battle of Algiers (film) — Infobox Film name = The Battle of Algiers caption = writer = Gillo Pontecorvo Franco Solinas music = Ennio Morricone Gillo Pontecorvo starring = Brahim Hagiag Jean Martin Saadi Yacef director = Gillo Pontecorvo producer = Antonio Musu Saadi Yacef …

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  • 3Battle of Algiers (1957) — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Algiers partof= Algerian War caption= date= 7 January 1957 8 October 1957 place= Algiers, French Algeria result= French military victory FLN political victory combatant1=flagicon|Algeria|1958 FLN… …

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  • 4December 11, 2007 Algiers bombings — 2007 Algiers bombings Location Algiers, Algeria Date 11 December 2007 09:30 (GMT+1) …

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  • 5The Women of Algiers in Their Apartments — infobox Book | name = Women of Algiers in their Apartments title orig = Femmes d Alger dans leur appartement translator = Marjolijn de Jager image caption = author = Assia Djebar illustrator = cover artist = country = language = French series =… …

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  • 6Women of Algiers in Their Apartment —   Author(s) Assia Djebar Original title Femmes d Alger dans leur …

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  • 7Lakhdar Ben Tobbal — Slimane Ben Tobbal (b. 1923 in Mila, Algeria), better known as Lakhdar Ben Tobbal, is a former Algerian resistance fighter.Ben Tobbal was a member of the nationalist Parti du peuple Algérien (PPA), and later moved on to its paramilitary… …

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  • 8Algeria — /al jear ee euh/, n. a republic in NW Africa: formerly comprised 13 departments of France; gained independence 1962. 29,830,370; 919,352 sq. mi. (2,381,122 sq. km). Cap.: Algiers. * * * Algeria Introduction Algeria Background: After a century of… …

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  • 9France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …

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  • 10Torture during the Algerian War — The French Armed Forces made a systematic and indiscriminate use of torture during the Algerian War of Independence (1954 62), creating a public controversy which is far from having been stifled today. Although the Algerian National Liberation… …

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