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1 dag geleden · The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France.
20 uur geleden · Les historiens de la Commission franco-algérienne se retrouvent ce lundi à Alger pour quatre jours de travail dans la capitale algérienne. C’est leur 5ᵉ réunion en l’espace d’un an, la ...
20 uur geleden · La France dispose encore de nombreuses archives gouvernementales, coloniales, diplomatiques et militaires. La commission avait proposé d’en restituer certaines et d’en numériser d’autres. Mais au mois de mars, Mohamed Lahcen Zeghidi, qui copréside la commission, a jeté un pavé dans la mare en affirmant que l’Algérie voulait récupérer l’ensemble des originaux.
2 dagen geleden · French colonists modernized Algeria’s agricultural and commercial economy but lived apart from the Algerian majority, enjoying social and economic privileges extended to few non-Europeans. Ethnic resentment, fueled by revolutionary politics introduced by Algerians who had lived and studied in France, led to a widespread nationalist ...
3 dagen geleden · During Ottoman rule, the name of the capital, al-Jazā'ir, was extended over the entire country, giving it the English name Algeria derived from the French name Algérie. In classical antiquity, the ancient Greeks knew the town as Ikósion (Ancient Greek: Ἰκόσιον), which was Latinized as Icosium under Roman rule.
3 dagen geleden · Algiers pushed through the March 1963 decrees which brought French-owned land under Algerian autogestion on the calculation that France would cede because of the pressure that they were already under for carrying our nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara.
20 uur geleden · Dutch engraving "During the French bombardment of Algiers, the French consul Pere Levacher is loaded into a cannon by the Algerians and killed" (1698) Amsterdam Museum Dutch satirical medal whose caption says in Dutch "the friend of the Turks, the friend of the Algerians, the friend of the Barbarians, hateful enemy of the Christians" while on the right Louis XIV kneels before the Ottoman ...
