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The island is located in the Town of Webb, in Herkimer County, New York. Alger Island was called Deer Island in the late 18th century. It was later called Big Island. Alger Island came from the family name of its longtime owners, father and son Mort and Ollie Alger. Alger Island was purchased by the state of New York on January 16, 1950.
Algiers [a] is the capital and largest city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province.The city's population at the 2008 census was 2,988,145 [3] and in 2020 was estimated to be around 4,500,000.
Samuel Sullivan Cox (1870), Search for Winter Sunbeams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers and Spain, New York: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 1022285, OL 6944535M; Lisbeth Gooch Seguin (1878), Walks in Algiers and its Surroundings, London: Daldy, Isbister & Co., OL 23405512M "Algiers", Appleton's European Guide Book, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888
The following is a list of adjectival forms of cities in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these cities.. Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms.
Algeria, [e] officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, [f] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Algiers (/ æ l ˈ dʒ ɪər z /) is a historic neighborhood of New Orleans and is the only Orleans Parish community located on the West Bank of the Mississippi River. Algiers is known as the 15th Ward, one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans. [1] It was once home to many jazz musicians [2] [3] and is also the second oldest neighborhood in the city. [4]
The American-Algerian War was a state of conflict which existed between the Regency of Algiers and the United States that lasted from 1785 to 1795. Occurring after the U.S. became independent from the British Empire as a result of the American Revolutionary War, Algiers declared war on the United States after realizing that American merchant shipping was no longer under the protection of the ...
An enlargeable basic map of Algeria. Pronunciation: / æ l ˈ dʒ ɪər i ə / ⓘ or / ɔː l-/; Common English country name: Algeria Official English country name: The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria