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The département of Alger covered an area of 54,861 km 2 (21,182 sq mi), and comprised six sub-prefectures: these were Aumale, Blida, Médéa, Miliana, Orléansville and Tizi-Ouzou. It was not until the 1950s that the Sahara was annexed into departmentalised Algeria, which explains why the département of Alger was limited to what is the north ...
Algeria, as of 2024, is divided into 58 wilayas (). [1] Prior to December 18, 2019, there were 48 provinces. The 58 provinces are divided into 1,541 baladiyahs (municipalities).
Algiers Province (Arabic: ولاية الجزائر, Wilāyat al-Jazāʼir, [wilaːja ald͡ʒazaːʔir]; French: wilaya d'Alger) is a province in Algeria, named after its capital, Algiers, which is also the national capital.
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 ...
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.
The middle of the three original Algerian departments was called Alger. For over a century the town of Médéa, was a sub-prefecture in the département of Alger: this changed in 1957. In May 1957 the Médéa sub-prefecture was split off and became a separate département, directly to the south of the now greatly diminished département of ...
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 ...
Philippe le Vacher, CM (1651 – 17 July 1662) Benjamin Huguier, CM (1662 – April 1663) Jean Le Vacher, CM (23 May 1668 – 29 July 1683) Michel de Montmasson, CM (8 January 1685 – 5 July 1688) José Gianola, O.SS.T (1690–1693) Yves Laurence, CM (September 1693 – 11 March 1705) Lambert Duchêne, CM (1705 – December 1736)