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Europeans in Algeria. 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 ...
e. Ethnic groups in Algeria include Arabs and Berbers, who represent 99% of the population, of which 75–85% are Arab and about 15–25% are Berber. [2][3] Algeria also has a minority population of Europeans that represents less than 1% of the population. [2] The minority European population is predominantly of French, Spanish, and Italian ...
French Algeria (French: Alger until 1839, then Algérie afterwards; [1] unofficially Algérie française, [2][3] Arabic: الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of Algerian history when the country was a colony and later an integral part of France. French rule in the region began in 1830, after the ...
Pieds-noirs. The pieds-noirs (French: [pje nwaʁ]; lit. 'black feet'; sg.: pied-noir) are an ethno-cultural group of people of French and other European descent who were born in Algeria during the period of French rule from 1830 to 1962. Many of them departed for mainland France during and after the war by which Algeria gained its independence ...
The European conquest, initially accepted in the Algiers region, was soon met by a rebellion, led by Abdel Kadir, which took roughly a decade for the French troops to put down. By 1848 nearly all of northern Algeria was under French control, and the new government of the French Second Republic declared the occupied lands an integral part of ...
The largest of these are the Kabyles, who live in the Kabylia region east of Algiers, the Chaoui of North-East Algeria, the Tuaregs in the southern desert and the Shenwa people of North Algeria. [20] [page needed] During the colonial period, there was a large (15% in 1960) [21] European population who became known as Pied-Noirs.
t. e. The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) [ nb 1 ] was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. [ 29 ] An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict ...
Algeria has been in an association agreement and a free trade agreement with the European Union since 2005. [4] In 2016, 67% of Algeria's exports went to the EU and 44% of Algeria's imports came from the EU. [5] Fuel and mining products made up 95.7% of EU imports from Algeria in 2017. [4] Chemicals represented the second most important ...