Crossword clues for algeria
algeria
- North African nation
- Neighbor of Morocco
- Morocco neighbor
- Neighbor of Tunisia
- World's largest Arab country
- Second-largest country in Africa by area
- Medit. republic
- Birthplace of Camus
- Africa's largest nation
- Where Tebessa is
- Oran's land
- Oran locale
- Neighbor of Libya and Tunisia
- Largest nation in Africa
- Largest Mediterranean country
- Largest country bordering the Mediterranean
- Largest Arab country in the world
- Largest African country
- Land of the casbahs
- It gained independence from France in 1962
- Home to roughly 32 million Sunnis
- Country that is roughly 80% desert
- Country of the Atlas range
- Country of origin for the author Assia Djebar
- Country in the Maghreb
- Constantine's country
- Berber's land
- Barbary Wars participant, now
- Atlas Mountains country
- Arab League member since 1962
- An Atlas Mountains locale
- Berber's home
- Former French colony
- "The Plague" setting
- Atlas Mountains locale
- Camus's birthplace
- Setting for Camus's "The Plague"
- Constantine is its third-largest city
- Land in the Barbary Wars
- With 40-Across, royal emblems in North Africa?
- Largest country in Africa since the breakup of Sudan in 2011
- African country bordering 16-Across
- A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea
- Colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s
- French-controlled land: 1847–1962
- A neighbor of Mali
- Mali neighbor
- Berber home
- Casbah country
- Loser to U.S. in 1815
- Ben Bella's home
- Batna's country
- Amazingly large island to west of a Mediterranean country
- North African country
- Regalia manufactured for African country
- Niger neighbor
- African country that was a French colony
- Libya neighbor
- Neighbor of Libya
- African land
- One of the Barbary States
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
North African country, named for Algiers, city chosen by the French as its capital when they colonized it in 1830 + Latinate "country" suffix -ia. The city name is Arabic al-Jazair, literally "the islands," in reference to four islands formerly off the coast but joined to the mainland since 1525. A resident of the place formerly was an Algerine (1650s), and the word was practically synonymous with "pirate" in English and U.S. usage early 19c.
Wikipedia
Algeria ( ; ; ), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a sovereign state in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast. Its capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the country's far north. With an area of , Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest in Africa. Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the west by Morocco, to the southwest by the Western Saharan territory, Mauritania, and Mali, to the southeast by Niger, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country is a semi-presidential republic consisting of 48 provinces and 1,541 communes (counties). Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been President since 1999.
Ancient Algeria has known many empires and dynasties, including ancient Numidians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Umayyads, Abbasids, Idrisid, Aghlabid, Rustamid, Fatimids, Zirid, Hammadids, Almoravids, Almohads, Ottomans and the French colonial empire. Berbers are generally considered to be the indigenous inhabitants of Algeria. Following the Arab conquest of North Africa, most indigenous inhabitants were Arabised; thus, although most Algerians are Berber in origin, most identify with Arab identity. En masse, Algerians are a mix of Berbers with some additional elements such as Arabs, Turks and Andalusians (people from southern Spain who migrated after the reconquista).
Algeria is a regional and middle power. The North African country supplies large amounts of natural gas to Europe, and energy exports are the backbone of the economy. According to OPEC Algeria has the 17th largest oil reserves in the world and the second largest in Africa, while it has the 9th largest reserves of natural gas. Sonatrach, the national oil company, is the largest company in Africa. Algeria has one of the largest militaries in Africa and the largest defence budget on the continent; most of Algeria's weapons are imported from Russia, with whom they are a close ally. Algeria is a member of the African Union, the Arab League, OPEC, the United Nations and is the founding member of the Maghreb Union.
Usage examples of "algeria".
Miss Velis here just informed me that she is planning to move to Algeria, to live among the Arabs?
I thought, people undoubtedly rode bicycles in Algeria as well as anywhere else.
Plateau of Chasms, loomed from the desert, a long ribbon of blue stone running three hundred miles from Algeria into the kingdom of Tripoli, skirting the edge of the Ahaggar Mountains and the lush oases that dotted the southern desert.
The tourist traffic in Algeria was hardly sufficient to support even the more accessible resorts along the coast.
Four-fifths of Algeria was desert, there was no timber, and the only arable land was two hundred miles away along the sea.
Once the Russians got wind of my owning the pieces, the white forces instantly suspected some might be here in Algeria where I live.
As for Algeria, he advocated a federation in which the Arab and European peoples would be equally represented.
It seems certain that what he wrote was only the beginning of a novel that would have been longer by several hundred pages, about Algeria from the arrival of the French to the Second World War, including the war itself, and the Resistance to the German Occupation as lived by the protagonists in a love affair.
Moroccan peaks, had gathered again in flocks on the high plateaus of Algeria, and now, at the approaches to the Tunisian frontier, were trying to reach the Tyrrhenian Sea to lose themselves in it.
Germans to settle in Algeria, and now that same region had to be taken back from those same enemies who were always evil and cruel, especially with the French, and for no reason at all.
But for the moment there were no dugouts, only the African troops who melted away under fire like multicolored wax dolls, and each day hundreds of new orphans, Arab and French, awakened in every corner of Algeria, sons and daughters without fathers who would now have to learn to live without guidance and without heritage.
Raised by her parents from Mahon on a small farm in the Sahel, she was very young when she married a slender and delicate man, also of Mahon origin, whose brothers had already settled in Algeria by 1848, after the tragic death of the paternal grandfather, a sometime poet who composed his verses mounted on a donkey and riding around the island between stone walls that bordered vegetable gardens.
Or the rain might fall, as it does in Algeria, in endless deluges, making a wet dark well of the street, but the class was hardly distracted.
But two-thirds of the emigrants were dead, there as everywhere in Algeria, without having laid hands on a spade or a plow.
In Algeria, too, the resulting sociopolitical climate was favorable to the development of a close collaboration between politicians and artists.