Crossword clues for algiers
algiers
- Lagers I ordered in north African port
- African capital
- Mediterranean port
- Mediterranean capital
- North African city
- Casbah setting
- Casbah city
- World capital that hosted the 2004 Pan Arab Games
- Setting for "The Stranger" by Camus
- Part of the Barbary Coast
- North African seaport
- Kasbah city
- Home of the Notre Dame d'Afrique basilica
- Former Barbary State in Africa
- Capital on the Mediterranean
- Home of the Casbah
- Setting of Camus's "The Stranger"
- Locale of a 1956 fight for independence
- Setting of "Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion"
- The capital and largest city of Algeria
- An ancient port on the Mediterranean
- Boyer-Lamarr film
- City near Oran
- Barbary Coast port
- North African port city
- Gangster catcalls heard in capital
- North African capital
Wikipedia
Algiers (, al-Jazā’er; Algerian Arabic pronunciation: دزاير Dzayer, , ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. In 2011, the city's population was estimated to be around 3,500,000. An estimate puts the population of the larger metropolitan city to be around 5,000,000. Algiers is located on the Mediterranean Sea and in the north-central portion of Algeria.
Sometimes nicknamed El-Behdja (البهجة) or alternatively Alger la Blanche ("Algiers the White") for the glistening white of its buildings as seen rising up from the sea, Algiers is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The modern part of the city is built on the level ground by the seashore; the old part, the ancient city of the deys, climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the casbah or citadel, above the sea. The casbah and the two quays form a triangle.
Algiers is the capital of Algeria, located within Algiers Province.
Algiers may also refer to:
Algiers is a 1938 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, and Hedy Lamarr. Written by John Howard Lawson, the film is about a notorious French jewel thief hiding in the labyrinthine native quarter of Algiers known as the Casbah. Feeling imprisoned by his self-imposed exile, he is drawn out of hiding by a beautiful French tourist who reminds him of happier times in Paris. The Walter Wanger production was a remake of the successful 1937 French film Pépé le Moko, which derived its plot from the Henri La Barthe novel of the same name.
Algiers was a sensation because it was the first Hollywood film starring Hedy Lamarr, whose beauty became the main attraction for film audiences. The film is notable as one of the sources of inspiration to the screenwriters of the 1942 Warner Bros. film Casablanca who wrote it with Hedy Lamarr in mind as the original female lead. Charles Boyer's depiction of the main character, Pepe Le Moko, inspired the Warner Bros. animated character, Pepé Le Pew. In 1966, the film entered the public domain (in the USA) due to the claimants' failure to renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.
Algiers is the seventh studio album from Tucson, Arizona indie rock/ Americana band Calexico, released on 11 September 2012.
The album's name comes from Algiers, New Orleans, which is where the album was recorded.
Algiers is an American experimental band from Atlanta, Georgia. The band is composed of vocalist/guitarist Franklin James Fisher, bassist Ryan Mahan and guitarist Lee Tesche. Algiers pulls from a divergent number of musical (and nonmusical) influences; the most notable of which being post-punk, gospel music, Southern Gothic literature and the concept of the Other. Their sound has been described as "dystopian soul" due to its somber mood, afrofolk inspired vocal approach, and heavy emphasis on atonal textures.
Algiers is the eponymous debut album by American experimental band Algiers. The album was released through Matador Records on June 2, 2015.
Usage examples of "algiers".
Saracen, Algerine, Barbary - they were all pirates and had been for centuries, whether they came from the Levant in the east or Algiers in the west.
Stephen telegraphed an acceptance, saying that he would start for Algiers in two or three days.
But glancing over a French paper while he breakfasted at the Westminster, he saw that a slight accident had happened to the boat during a storm on her return voyage from Algiers, and that she would be delayed three days for repairs.
After Saidee was married and taken to Algiers, my stepmother began to imagine herself in love with an American from Indiana, whom she met in Paris.
And the minister wrote to the American Consul in Algiers for me, but the only answer was that Cassim ben Halim had disappeared.
Even though she had disappeared from there, it seemed to me that Algiers would be the place to begin my search.
If her husband is a bad man, and if the reason he left Algiers is because he lost his money, as I sometimes think, I may have to bribe him to let her go.
Once settled in Algiers she must stay there quietly till the authorities found her sister.
Marseilles and Algiers, makes the trip in eighteen hours, as advertised.
He did not add what remained of the truth, that he had thought of Algiers as a refuge from what had become disagreeable, rather than as a beautiful place which he wished to see for its own sake.
All that was left of old Algiers tried to boast, in forced dumbness, of past glories, of every charm the beautiful, fierce city of pirates must have possessed before the French came to push it slowly but with deadly sureness back from the sea.
Dey of Algiers, in sixteen hundred and something, and the place had been allowed to fall into ruin when my uncle bought it, about twenty or thirty years ago.
Because of that face he remained in Algiers, bought this house, spent years in restoring it, exactly in Arab style, and making a beautiful garden out of his fifteen or sixteen acres.
I may as well break it to you now, as I had to do to Nevill when he invited me to come to Algiers and straighten out his housekeeping accounts: they play Ruth to my Naomi.
It is already long that he went away from Algiers, no one knows where.