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Women of Algiers in their Apartment (French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement) is the title of two oil on canvas paintings by the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix. Delacroix's first version of Women of Algiers was painted in Paris in 1834 and is located in the Louvre, Paris, France.
Palais d’été during the colonial era Main façade before 1910s remodeling. The People's Palace (Arabic: قصر الشعب, French: Palais du Peuple), formerly Palais d'été ("Summer Palace" of the Governor), is a public building in Algiers.
Advertisement for the hotel in 1908. In 1514, a mansion was erected on that site for the Dey, the local ruler under Ottoman Algeria.In 1840, following the invasion of Algiers in 1830, it became a girls' boarding school.
Les Femmes d'Alger (English: Women of Algiers) is a series of 15 paintings and numerous drawings by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The series, created in 1954–1955, was inspired by Eugène Delacroix 's 1834 painting The Women of Algiers in their Apartment ( French : Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement ). [ 1 ]
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Islam reached Algeria in the 7th century via the Arab conquest of Northern Africa. [11] Islamic conquest brought many of the hallmark features of Muslim cities to Algeria, including the souq as a commercial center, the hammam as a social center, and the mosque and accompanying madrasa as a religious center. [1]
Hydra (Arabic: حيدرة, ḥaydara, pronounced) is a commune in the province of Algiers, Algeria.It is located in Bir Mourad Raïs district, in the plateau of western Algiers, the wealthier part of the national capital.
The name of the villa does not come from olive trees (French: oliviers) but from the Olivier family which lived there for a quarter century after 1881. [1] Even so, there are olive trees in the villa's garden.