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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 ...
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 ...
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.
In Morocco, a wilaya is an administrative division created in 1981 that "brings together many provinces or prefectures or both at the same time, and is intended to endow big urban units such as Casablanca with an administrative organization capable of meeting the needs that emerge from these expanding cities and their growing populations."
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 subprefectures of France are the chefs-lieux of arrondissements other than those administered by a prefecture. There are 233 subprefectures out of a total of 332 arrondissements. The list below shows the sub-prefectures by department.
Palace of the Dey (Arabic: قصر الداي), [1] [2] also known as Algiers Castle (Arabic: قلعة الجزائر), is an Ottoman era palace in the city of Algiers, Algeria.
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.