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The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) [nb 1] 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. [29]
Nearly one million people of mostly French, Spanish and Italian descent left the country at independence due to the privileges that they lost as settlers and their unwillingness to be on equal footing with indigenous Algerians [253] along with them left most Algerians of Jewish descent and those Muslim Algerians who had supported a French ...
The Legion was based in Algeria for 130 years, an experience which came to shape its character. The French Army recruited extensively from the Berber and Arab peoples of Algeria throughout the period of French rule (1830–1962).
A Muslim mosque in Algeria Monument to those killed in the first independence protest, the Sétif and Guelma massacre. When the French arrived in Algeria in 1830, they quickly took control of all Muslim establishments. [1] The French took the land in order to transfer wealth and power to the new French settlers. [1]
Independence restored after German and Belgian protectorate. Initial establishment c. 1680. July 1, 1962 Belgium Rwanda: Independence restored after German and Belgian protectorate. Initial establishment around the 12th century. July 5, 1962 France Algeria: Independence restored after French colonial rule. Initial founding in 1516: August 6, 1962
Result for Algeria and its Allies Sand War (1963–1964) Part of the Algeria-European War Location: Algeria Border Algeria and Morocco: Algeria Egypt [26] Cuba [27] Morocco Support: France [28] Inconclusive. The closing of the border south of Figuig, Morocco/Béni Ounif, Algeria. Morocco abandoned its intentions to control Béchar and Tindouf ...
Algeria gained its independence in 1962. The country descended into a bloody civil war from 1992 to 2002. Spanning 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the world's tenth-largest nation by area, and the largest nation in Africa. [14]
Algerian nationalism is pride in the Algerian identity and culture. It has been historically influenced by the conflicts between the Deylik of Algiers and European countries, the French conquest of Algeria and the subsequent French colonial rule in Algeria, the Algerian War, and since independence by Arab socialism, Islamism and Arab nationalism.