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Algeria (Formal Arabic: الجزائر, al-Jazā’ir; in Tamazight: Dzayer; French: Algérie), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. In terms of land area, it is the largest country on the Mediterranean Sea, the largest on the African continent, and the tenth-largest in the world.



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Pied-Noir ("Black-Foot"), plural Pieds-Noirs, pronounced [pje.nwaʁ], is a term used to refer to colonists of French Algeria until the Algerian independence in 1962. Specifically, Pieds-Noirs were French nationals, including those of European descent, Sephardic Jews, and settlers from other European countries such as Spain, Italy, and Malta, who were born in Algeria. From the French invasion in 18 June 1830, until attaining independence, Algeria formed three départements (Algiers, Oran and Constantine) and was considered a part of France. By independence, the Pieds-Noirs accounted for 1,025,000 people, or roughly 10 percent of the total population.

The Pieds-Noirs are known in reference to the Algerian War, which saw the deaths of 24,000 French Nationals and at least 153,000 Algerians, with estimates varying due to differing statistical analyses. The Algerian War was fought by nationalist groups such as the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) against the colonial French government in response to political and economic inequalities as well as their perceived "alienation" from the French settlers. The conflict contributed to the fall of the French Fourth Republic and the mass migration of French Nationals to France.


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A building in Algiers, Algeria.

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... That Algerian soldiers fought for the French freedom, against Nazi-Germany and thousands of them died during the fights?




...that Zinedine Zidane is actually Algerian?

...that Algeria became the first African team to defeat an European team at the 1982 FIFA World Cup (2-1 against West Germany in the first round)?

...that the Algerian athlete Hassiba Boulmerka, became the first African woman to win an athletics world title, and the first Algerian to win an Olympic title?

...that in 1861, the impressionism painter Claude Monet joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria where he stayed for two years?

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