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Medium-sized port. [3] Third largest commercial port in Algeria after Algiers and Oran. Port of Bejaia: Béjaïa Province: Béjaïa: DZBJA: 11.5: 116715: Large-sized port [4] on the shores of the Gulf of Béjaïa. Port of Annaba: Annaba Province: Annaba
Algiers railway station (French: Gare d'Alger, Arabic: محطة قطار الجزائر) is a train station in the municipality of Kasbah in the state of Algiers, located near the Kasbah of Algiers and the port of Algiers.
Algiers [a] is the capital and largest city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province.The city's population at the 2008 census was 2,988,145 [3] and in 2020 was estimated to be around 4,500,000.
Algiers in one of the maps of cities and fortresses in the Atlante Neroni of 1602. In 1529, Hayreddin Barbarossa seized the Peñon facing the city of Algiers from the Spanish and linked the rock to the port by building a pier. [44] This allowed Algiers to become a secure port for naval and corsair companies.
Mediterranean port cities and towns in Algeria (1 C, 8 P) This page was last edited on 15 January 2017, at 01:34 (UTC). Text ...
Algeria, [e] officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, [f] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
During the French colonial period (1830–1962), Algeria contained a large European population of 1.6 million who constituted 15.2% of the total population in 1962. . Consisting primarily of French people, other populations included Spaniards in the west of the country, Italians and Maltese in the east, and other Europeans in small
France was the first European country to establish relations with Algiers. [165] It began direct negotiations in 1617 after more than 900 ships were taken and 8000 Frenchmen enslaved. [ 169 ] They reached an impasse in part over two cannons Zymen Danseker had taken with him to give to Charles, Duke of Guise when he left the Algerian navy in ...