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The building's location was previously used by a logistical branch of the French military (manutention militaire), built during the Second French Empire.[1]The municipality had previously been located, from 1850 to 1883, in the Vieux Palais of the Casbah of Algiers; [2] and from 1883 to the mid-20th century on the Algiers waterfront, now Boulevard Zighoud-Youcef [], in the former Hôtel d ...
The Government Palace crowns the Boulevard Mohamed-Khemisti, a monumental perspective created in the early 20th century on former military grounds, which also includes the Grande Poste d'Alger. [4] The plaza or Forum in front of the Government Palace, formerly an open space but now closed to the public, [ 1 ] overlooks Algiers with a broad view ...
The bombardment of Algiers in 1683 was a French naval operation against the Regency of Algiers during the French-Algerian War 1681–88.It led to the rescue of more than 100 French prisoners, [2] in some cases after decades of captivity, but the great majority of Christian captives in Algiers were not liberated.
The majority in the département of Alger declared themselves to be Muslims. In the city of Alger itself, however, 296,041 or 46% of the 645,479 people counted were declared to be non-Muslims. This placed Alger second only to the city of Oran in terms of the proportion of the population stating that they were non-Moslems. Non-Moslem appears to ...
The People's Palace (Arabic: قصر الشعب, French: Palais du Peuple), formerly Palais d'été ("Summer Palace" of the Governor), is a public building in Algiers. It was first built in the Ottoman era , then became the residence of the Governor of French Algeria , and was the seat of government during the first three years of Independent ...
President Emmanuel Macron and key members of the government will meet in the coming days to decide how to respond to what Paris deems as growing hostility from Algeria, France's foreign minister ...
The People's National Army include the Algerian Land Forces, the Algerian Air Force, the Navy, and the Algerian Air Defence Force. [9] The antecedents of the army were the conventional military units formed in neighbouring Morocco and Tunisia during the war of independence from France.
The Algiers putsch (Arabic: انقلاب 1961 في الجزائر; French: Putsch d'Alger or Coup d'État d'Alger), also known as the putsch of the generals (Putsch des généraux), was a failed coup d'état intended to force French President Charles de Gaulle not to abandon French Algeria, the resident European community and pro-French Algerians. [1]