.....Algiers

"El-Djazaïr"
"El-Bahdja"
Alger la Blanche

C'est une ville qu'on ne peut se lasser d'admirer et dont l'aspect enchante l'imagination. Assise au bord de la mer, sur le penchant d'une montagne, elle jouit de tous les avantages qui résultent de cette position exceptionnelle ; elle a pour elle les ressources du golfe et de la plaine. Rien n'approche l'agrément de sa perspective." Abou-Mohamed-El-Abery - XIIIe siècle

Population : 2.562.000 inhabitants

Communes or villages close to Algiers :
Plateau Sauliere, L'Agha, Mustapha, Sidi M'Hamed, El Mouradia, El Madania, Hamma, Mustapha Superieur, Isly, Les Tagarins, La Casbah, Oued Koriche, Telemly, Husssein-Dey, Bab El Oued, Rostomia, Chevalley, Ben Aknoun, El Harrach, Kouba, Bouzareah, Belcourt, Cheraga

Other "Algiers" in the World

History:
Formerly called " Ikosim " (the island with the gulls), its foundation goes up in IVe century before J-C (remains of muds campiniens - dating from IIIe century before JC - were discovered in a twenty depth meters well).

• In year 25 before JC, the name of Ikosim was hellénisé in Icosium, and the city passed under Roman domination.
• It is towards IVe century that Christianity was introduced in Icosium.
• In 429, the city passed under domination vandal. In 442 a treaty between Romans and Vandals made it possible to the Romans to recover Icosium and this during the hundred years which lasted the domination vandal.
• After 533, the city sank following the attacks of the tribes maures and Berber.
• In 702, vague beachcomber of Islam coming from Arabia.
• In 960, Bologhine, son of Ziri-Ibn-Menad, rebuilt Icosium and baptized it " El-Djazair-Mezghanna ", El-Djazaïr (islands).
• It was taken into 1082 by Almoravides, the first large Mosque of the rite malékite " Djamaa El Kébir " was built by Youssef-Ibn-Tachefin.
• In 1152, taken of El-Djazaîr by Almohades (El-Mouwahidine).
• In XVIe century : Invasion Turkish
• In 1830, unloading of France
• 05/07/1962, Independence of Algeria.
  

The six gates :

• Bab-El-Djedid
• Bab Sidi-Ramdane
• Bab-Azoun
• Bab-El-Oued
• Bab-El-Behar
• Bab-El-Djazira (also called Bab-El-Jihad)

All these gates were closed with fallen the night and were reopened that in the early morning.

The Casbah

Imposing fortress, it was built into 1516 and was
completed into 1590. Its position enabled him
to have an overall picture on the port and all the city.

Algiers, the capital offers a multitude of facets.
All is concentrated there, as in all the capitals of the world, but more still, did not say one in all the remainder of the country " Algé (rien - nothing-) the Algé (rois -kings-) ".
Each district has its history, each street its secrecies, from Belcourt to St-Eugene, El-Harrach to Bouzaréah, without forgetting Bab-El-Oued, the Large Post office and the Casbah, all saw, vibrates on different monotonous chants. In Hydra one does not live as in Soustara, but one shares the same history, same passions, the same tears and the suffering is equal.
Algiers spreads on its inhabitants the same sorrow, but not the same joys.

Algiers gave rise to poets, painters.

It is proud and haughty, white and impregnable.

Makam Echahid (the monument of the Martyrs) on the heights of Algiers

International Hotel

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