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The Department of Algiers (French: département d'Alger, [depaʁtəmɑ̃ dalʒe], Arabic: عمّالة الجزائر) [1] was a former French department in Algeria. The department of Alger existed between 1848 and 1974. Considered a French province, Algeria was departmentalized on December 9, 1848.
Its construction began during the French occupation of Algeria, immediately after the approval of the imperial decree on April 8, 1857, to establish a railway line from Algiers to Oran. [ 6 ] The Algerian Railways Company undertook the completion of this project according to the formula of the railway exploitation concession by two contracts ...
Pages in category "Former departments of France in Algeria" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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. It is adopted from the old French department of Algiers and has a population of about 8 million. It is the most densely ...
A day after, the French armed forces reported that Algeria had banned French military flights from using the Algerian airspace. [ 16 ] On 8 December 2021, in an unannounced trip to Algiers, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian held talks with President Abdelmadjid Tebboune with the aim of opening a route towards renewed dialogue between the ...
The three Algerian departments in 1848 Departments of French Algeria from 1957 to 1962. Unlike the rest of the French possessions in Africa, Algeria was divided into departments just like Corsica or Normandy from 1848 until its independence in 1962. These departments were supposed to be "assimilated" or "integrated" to France sometime in the ...
Seal of the Government-General of Algeria under the Second French Empire, 1865 Seal of the Government-General of Algeria (1960s) Chronological map of French Algeria's evolution, 1830–1962. In 1830, in the days before the outbreak of the July Revolution against the Bourbon Restoration in France , the conquest of Algeria was initiated by ...
Constantine Department was a French département in Algeria during the colonial period, which existed between 1848 and 1974. The area of the former department, centered on the city of Constantine , is also referred to as Constantinois ( Arabic : قسنطينة Qusanṭīnah ).