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Algeria
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{{Infobox_Country|
native_name = الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية ''Al-JumhurÄ«yah al-JazÄ?’irÄ«yah ad-DÄ«muqrÄ?á¹Ä«yah ash-Sha’bÄ«yah''|
conventional_long_name = People's Democratic Republic of Algeria |
common_name = Algeria |
image_flag = Flag of Algeria.svg |
image_coat = Algeria coa.png |
image_map = LocationAlgeria.png |
national_motto = (translation): The Revolution by the people and for the people |
national_anthem = '' Kassaman Kassaman (Qasaman Bin-NÄ?zilÄ?t Il-MÄ?ḥiqÄ?t)'' ( Arabic language Arabic: ''Kassaman We Swear By The Lightning That Destroys'') |
official_languages = Arabic language Arabic |
capital = Algiers [[http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ag.html CIA World Factbook Algeria] (accessed 04 April, 2006)]|
latd=36|latm=42|latNS=N|longd=3|longm=13|longEW=E|
largest_city = Algiers |
government_type= Democratic Republic |
leader_titles = President of Algeria President
Prime Minister of Algeria Prime Minister |
leader_names = Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Ahmed Ouyahia |
area_rank = 11th |
area_magnitude = 1 E12 |
area = 2,381,740 |
areami² = 919,595 |
percent_water = negligible |
population_estimate = 32,531,853 [|
population_estimate_year = 2005 |
population_estimate_rank = 36th |
population_census= |
population_census_year= |
population_density = 13 |
population_densitymi² = 33.6 |
population_density_rank= 168th|
GDP_PPP_year= 2004 |
GDP_PPP = $217,224,000,000 |
GDP_PPP_rank = 38th |
GDP_PPP_per_capita = $6,799 |
GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 85th |
HDI_year = 2003 |
HDI = 0.722 |
HDI_rank = 103rd |
HDI_category = medium |
sovereignty_type = Independence|
established_events = Declared |
established_dates = From France]
July 5, 1962 [[http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/algeria.html Algeria County analysis] Energy Information Administration (accessed 04 April, 2006) ] |
currency = Algerian dinar |
currency_code = DZD |
time_zone= Central European Time CET |
utc_offset= +1 |
time_zone_DST= Central European Time CET |
utc_offset_DST= +1 does not observe |
cctld= .dz |
calling_code = 213 |
footnotes =
}}
The '''People's Democratic Republic of Algeria''' (Arabic language Arabic: '''الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية''' {{IPA|/ælʤumhuˈriË? ælʤæzæË?Ê”iriË? ædË?iË?muqrɑˈtË?iË? æʃË?ɑʕˈbiË?æ/}}) , or '''Algeria''' (Arabic language Arabic: '''الجزائر''' IPA {{IPA|/ælʤæˈzæË?Ê”ir/}}), is a presidential state in north Africa, and the second largest country on the African continent, Sudan being the largest [. It is bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco as well as a few kilometers of its annexed territory, Western Sahara, in the west. Constitution of Algeria Constitutionally, it is defined as an Islamic, Arab, and Amazigh (Berber) country. The name Algeria is derived from the name of the city of Algiers, from the Arabic language Arabic word ''al-jazÄ?’ir'', which translates as ''the islands'', referring to the four islands which lay off that city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525.
]
History
{{main|History of Algeria}}
Algeria has been inhabited by Berbers (or Amazigh) since at least 10,000 BC. From 1000 BC on, the Carthage Carthaginians became an influence on them, establishing settlements along the coast. Berber kingdoms began to emerge, most notably Numidia, and seized the opportunity offered by the Punic Wars to become independent of Carthage, only to be taken over soon after by the Roman Republic in 200 BC. As the western Roman Empire collapsed, the Berbers became independent again in much of the area, while the Vandals took over parts until later expelled by the generals of the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I. The Byzantine Empire then retained a precarious grip on the east of the country until the coming of the Arabs in the 8th century.
Image:Roman Arch of Trajan at Thamugadi (Timgad), Algeria 04966r.jpg thumb|left|Roman arch of Trajan at Thamugadi (Timgad), Algeria
After some decades of fierce resistance under leaders such as Kusayla and Kahina, the Berbers adopted Islam ''en masse'', but almost immediately expelled the Caliphate from Algeria, establishing an Ibadi state under the Rustamids. Having converted the Kutama of Kabylie to its cause, the Shia Fatimids overthrew the Rustamids, and conquered Egypt. They left Algeria and Tunisia to their Zirid vassals; when the latter rebelled and adopted Sunnism, they sent in a populous Arab tribe, the Banu Hilal, to weaken them, thus incidentally initiating the Arabization of the countryside. The Almoravids and Almohads, Berber dynasties from the west founded by religious reformers, brought a period of relative peace and development; however, with the Almohads' collapse, Algeria became a battleground for their three successor states, the Algerian Zayyanids, Tunisian Hafsids, and Moroccan Merinids. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Spain started attacking and taking over many coastal cities, prompting some to seek help from the Ottoman Empire.
Algeria was brought into the Ottoman Empire by Khair ad Din Khair ad-Din and his brother Aruj, who established Algeria's modern boundaries in the north and made its coast a base for the Privateer corsairs; their privateering peaked in Algiers in the 1600s. Piracy on American vessels in the Mediterranean resulted in the First Barbary War First and Second Barbary War with the United States. On the pretext of a slight to their consul, the France French invaded Algiers in 1830; however, intense resistance from such personalities as Emir Abdelkader, Ahmed Bey and Lalla Fatma N'Soumer Fatma N'Soumer made for a slow conquest of Algeria, not technically completed until the early 1900s when the last Tuareg were conquered.
Image:Constantine Algerien 002.jpg thumb|left|Constantine, Algeria 1840
Meanwhile, however, the French suppressed slavery and made Algeria an integral part of France, a status that would end only with the collapse of the French Fourth Republic Fourth Republic. Tens of thousands of settlers from France, Italy, Spain, and Malta moved in to farm the Algerian coastal plain and occupy the most prized parts of Algeria's cities, benefiting from the French government's confiscation of communally held land. People of European descent in Algeria (the so-called ''pied-noir pieds-noirs''), as well as the native Algerian Jews, were full French citizens starting from the end of the 19th century; by contrast, the vast majority of Muslim Algerians (even veterans of the French army) remained outside of French law, possessing neither French citizenship nor the right to vote. Algeria's social fabric was stretched to breaking point during this period: literacy dropped massively, while land confiscation uprooted much of the population.
In 1954, the National Liberation Front (Algeria) National Liberation Front (FLN) launched the guerrilla warfare guerrilla Algerian War of Independence; after nearly a decade of urban and rural warfare, they succeeded in pushing France out in 1962. Most of the 1,025,000 ''pied-noir pieds-noirs'', as well as 91,000 ''harkis'' (pro-French Muslim Algerians serving in the French Army), together forming about 10% of the population of Algeria in 1962, fled Algeria for France in just a few months in the middle of that year.
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Algeria's first president, the FLN leader Ahmed Ben Bella, was overthrown by his former ally and defense minister, Houari Boumédiènne in 1965. Under Ben Bella the government had already become increasingly socialist and dictatorial, and this trend continued throughout Boumedienne's government; however, Boumedienne relied much more heavily on the army, and reduced the sole legal party to a merely symbolic role. Agriculture was collectivised, and a massive industrialization drive launched. Oil extraction facilities were nationalized and this increased the state's wealth, especially after the 1973 oil crisis, but the Algerian economy became increasingly dependent on oil, bringing hardship when the price collapsed in the 1980s. In foreign policy Algeria was a member and leader of the 'non-aligned' nations. A dispute with Morocco over the Western Sahara nearly led to war. Dissent was rarely tolerated, and the state's control over the media and the outlawing of political parties other than the FLN was cemented in the repressive constitution of 1976. Boumédienne died in 1978, but the rule of his successor, Chadli Bendjedid, was little more open. The state took on a strongly bureaucratic character and corruption was widespread.
The modernization drive brought considerable demographic changes to Algeria. Village traditions underwent significant change as urbanization increased, new industries emerged, agriculture was substantially reduced, and education, a rarity in colonial times, was extended nationwide, raising the literacy rate from less than 10% to over 60%. Improvements in healthcare led to a dramatic increase in the birthrate (7-8 children per mother) which had two consequences: a very youthful population, and a housing crisis. The new generation struggled to relate to the cultural obsession with the war years and two conflicting protest movements developed: left-wingers, including Berber identity movements, and Islamic 'intégristes'. Both protested against one-party rule but also clashed with each other in universities and on the streets during the 1980s. Mass protests from both camps in autumn 1988 forced Benjedid to concede the end of one-party rule, and elections were announced for 1991.
In December 1991, the Islamic Salvation Front won the Algerian National Assembly elections, 1991 first round of the country's first multiparty elections. The military then canceled the second round, forced then-president Bendjedid to resign, and banned the Islamic Salvation Front. The ensuing conflict engulfed Algeria in the violent Algerian Civil War. More than 100,000 people were killed, often in unprovoked massacres of civilians. The question of who was responsible for these massacres remains controversial among academic observers; many were claimed by the Armed Islamic Group. After 1998, the war waned, and by 2002 the main guerrilla groups had either been destroyed or surrendered, taking advantage of an amnesty program, though sporadic fighting continued in some areas. Elections resumed in 1995, and on 27 April 1999, after a series of short-term leaders representing the military, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the current president, was elected. [[http://www.arab.de/arabinfo/algehis.htm Arabic German Consulting] www.arab.de (accessed 04 April, 2006)] The issue of Berber language and identity increased in significance, particularly after the extensive Kabyle protests of 2001 and the near-total boycott of local elections in Kabylie; the government responded with concessions including naming of Tamazight (Berber) as a national language and teaching it in schools.
Politics
{{main|Politics of Algeria}}
The head of state is the President of Algeria President of the republic, who is elected to a 5-year term, renewable once. Algeria has universal suffrage. The President is the head of the Council of Ministers and of the High Security Council. He appoints the Prime Minister of Algeria Prime Minister who is also the head of government. The Prime Minister appoints the Council of Ministers.
The Algerian parliament is bicameral, consisting of a lower chamber, the National People's Assembly (APN), with 380 members and an upper chamber, the Council of Nation, with 144 members. The APN is elected every 5 years.
Throughout the 1960's, Algeria supported many independence movements in sub-Saharan Africa, and was a leader in the Non-Aligned Movement. While it shares much of its history and cultural heritage with neighbouring Morocco, the two countries have had somewhat hostile relations with each other since Algeria's independence. This is due to two reasons: Morocco's Greater Morocco claim to portions of western Algeria (which led to the Sand war in 1963), and Algeria's support for the Polisario, an armed group of Sahrawi refugees seeking independence for the Moroccan-ruled Western Sahara, which it hosts within its borders in the city of Tindouf. Tensions between Algeria and Morocco, as well as issues relating to the Algerian Civil War, have put great obstacles in the way of tightening the Maghreb Arab Union, nominally established in 1989 but with little practical weight, with its coastal neighbors. [[http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/990219/1999021906.html Bin Ali calls for reactivating Arab Maghreb Union, Tunisia-Maghreb, Politics, 2/19/1999] www.arabicnews.com (accessed 04 April, 2006) ]
Provinces
{{main|Provinces of Algeria}}
Algeria is divided into 48 ''Wilayah wilayas'' (provinces) [:-
{|
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*1 Adrar Province Adrar
*2 Aïn Defla Province Aïn Defla
*3 Aïn Témouchent
*4 Algiers Alger
*5 Annaba Province Annaba
*6 Batna Province Batna
*7 Béchar (province) Béchar
*8 Béjaïa Province Béjaïa
*9 Biskra Province Biskra
*10 Blida Province Blida
*11 Bordj Bou Arréridj Province Bordj Bou Arréridj
*12 Bouira Province Bouira
*13 Boumerdès Province Boumerdès
*14 Chlef Province Chlef
*15 Constantine Province Constantine
*16 Djelfa Province Djelfa
*17 El Bayadh
|
*18 El Oued Province El Oued
*19 El Tarf
*20 Ghardaïa Province Ghardaïa
*21 Guelma Province Guelma
*22 Illizi Province Illizi
*23 Jijel Province Jijel
*24 Khenchela
*25 Laghouat
*26 Mila Province Mila
*27 Mostaganem Province Mostaganem
*28 Médéa Province Médéa
*29 Muaskar Province Muaskar
*30 M'Sila
*31 Naama Province Naama
*32 Oran Province Oran
*33 Ouargla Province Ouargla
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*34 Oum el-Bouaghi
*35 Relizane Province Relizane
*36 Saida Province Saida
*37 Sétif Province Sétif
*38 Sidi Bel Abbes Province Sidi Bel Abbes
*39 Skikda Province Skikda
*40 Souk Ahras
*41 Tamanghasset Province Tamanghasset
*42 Tébessa Province Tébessa
*43 Tiaret Province Tiaret
*44 Tindouf Province Tindouf
*45 Tipasa Province Tipasa
*46 Tissemsilt Province Tissemsilt
*47 Tizi Ouzou Province Tizi Ouzou
*48 Tlemcen Province Tlemcen
|
|Image:Algeria provinces.png right|250px|Map of the provinces of Algeria in alphabetical order.
|}
]
Geography
{{main|Geography of Algeria}}
Image:Algeria map.png 220px|right|Map of Algeria with cities
Image:Hoggar3.jpg Ahaggar Mountains thumb|left|The [[Ahaggar Mountains|Hoggar Mountains.html" title="Meaning of Hoggar.html" title="Meaning of thumb|left|The [[Ahaggar Mountains|Hoggar">thumb|left|The [[Ahaggar Mountains|Hoggar Mountains">Hoggar.html" title="Meaning of thumb|left|The [[Ahaggar Mountains|Hoggar">thumb|left|The [[Ahaggar Mountains|Hoggar Mountains
Most of the coastal area is hilly, sometimes even mountainous, and there are few good harbours. The area just south of the coast, known as the Tell, is fertile. Further south is the Atlas mountains Atlas mountain range and the Sahara desert. Algiers, Oran and Constantine, Algeria Constantine are the main cities.
Algeria's climate is arid and hot, although the coastal climate is mild, and the winters in the mountainous areas can be severe. Algeria is prone to sirocco, a hot dust- and sand-laden wind especially common in summer. [
''See also'': Extreme points of Algeria
]
Economy
{{main|Economy of Algeria}}
Image:Unknown origin coin2.JPG thumb|left|150px|Algerian coins
The fossil fuels energy sector is the backbone of the economy, accounting for roughly 60% of budget revenues, 30% of Gross domestic product GDP, and over 95% of export earnings. It ranks 14th in Petroleum reserves, containing 11.8 billion barrels of proven oil reserves with estimates suggesting that the actual amount is even more. [ The Energy Information Administration reported that in 2005, Algeria had 160 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of proven natural gas reserves, the 8th largest in the world.
Algeria’s financial and economic indicators improved during the mid-1990s, in part because of policy reforms supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and debt rescheduling from the Paris Club. Algeria’s finances in 2000 and 2001 benefited from an increase in oil prices and the government’s tight fiscal policy, leading to a large increase in the trade surplus, record highs in foreign exchange reserves, and reduction in foreign debt. The government's continued efforts to diversify the economy by attracting foreign and domestic investment outside the energy sector has had little success in reducing high unemployment and improving living standards. In 2001, the government signed an Association Treaty with the European Union that will eventually lower tariffs and increase trade. In March 2006, Russia agreed to erase $4.74 billion of Algeria's Soviet-era debt during a visit by President Vladimir Putin to the country, the first by a Russian leader in half a century. In return, president Abdelaziz Bouteflika agreed to buy $7.5 billion worth of combat planes, air-defence systems and other arms from Russia, according to the head of Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport ][ {{cite news | title=Russia agrees Algeria arms deal, writes off debt | publisher=Reuters | date=March 11, 2006 | url=http://za.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2006-03-11T082958Z_01_BAN130523_RTRIDST_0_OZABS-ECONOMY-RUSSIA-ALGERIA-20060311.XML}} ] [ {{fr}} {{cite news | title=La Russie efface la dette algérienne | publisher=Radio France International | date=March 10, 2006 | url=http://www.rfi.fr/actufr/articles/075/article_42379.asp}} ].
Demographics
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{{main|Demographics of Algeria}}
About 90% of Algerians live in the northern, coastal area; the minority who inhabit the Sahara desert are mainly concentrated in oasis oases, although some 1.5 million remain nomadic or partly nomadic.
Ninety-nine percent of the population is classified ethnically as Arab/Berber, and religiously as Muslim; other religions are restricted to extremely small groups, mainly of foreigners. Europeans account for less than 1%. [
Most Algerians are Arab by language and identity, and of mixed Berber-Arab ancestry. ][ The Berbers inhabited Algeria before the arrival of Arab tribes during the expansion of Islam, in the 7th century. The issue of ethnicity and language is sensitive after many years of government marginalization of Berber (or Amazigh, as some prefer) culture. Today, the Arab-Berber issue is often a case of self-identification or identification through language and culture, rather than a racial or ethnic distinction. The 20% or so of the population who self-identify as Berbers, and primarily speak Berber languages (such as Tamazight), are divided into several ethnic groups, notably Kabyle (the largest) in the mountainous north-central area, Chaoui in the eastern Atlas Mountains, Mozabites in the M'zab valley, and Tuareg in the far south.
]
Language
{{main|Languages of Algeria}}
Algeria's largest and official language, Arabic language Arabic, is spoken natively in dialectal form ("Algerian Arabic Darja") by some 80% of the population, and, as in the entire Arab world, used in the Modern Standard Arabic variant in the media and on official occasions. Some 20% of the population, identified as Berbers or Imazighen, are native speakers not of Arabic, but of some dialect of Tamazight. Many Algerians are however fluent in both languages to some degree. Arabic language Arabic remains Algeria's only official language, although Tamazight has recently been recognized as a national language alongside it. Raymond Gordon has published a population/language break-down of 18 living languages within Algeria. [[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=DZ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/] (accessed 04 April, 2006) ]
The language issue is politically sensitive for the Berber minority, which has been disadvantaged by state-sanctioned Arabization. Language politics and Arabization have partly been a result of the fact that a 130 years of France French colonialism colonization had left both the state bureaucracy and much of the educated upper class completely Francophone; but also of the Arab nationalism promoted by successive Algerian governments.
French language French is still the most widely studied foreign language, and widely spoken (distantly followed by English language English), but very rare as a native language. Since independence, the government has pursued a policy of linguistic Arabization of education and bureaucracy, with some success, although many university courses continue to be taught in French.
Culture
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{{main|Culture of Algeria}}
Modern Algerian literature, split between Arabic and French, has been strongly influenced by the country's recent history. List of Algerian writers Famous novelists of the 20th century include Mohammed Dib and Kateb Yacine, while Assia Djebar is widely translated. Important novelists of the 1980s included Rachid Mimouni, later vice-president of Amnesty International, and Tahar Djaout, murdered by an Islamist group in 1993 for his secularist views [[http://www.frenchpubagency.com/?fuseaction=people.main&pid=517 Tahar Djaout] French Publishers' Agency and France Edition, Inc. (accessed 04 April, 2006) ]. As early as Roman times, Apuleius, born in Mdaourouch, was native to what would become Algeria.
In philosophy and the humanities, Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization, while Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste (about 60 miles from the present day city of Annaba), and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.
Algerian culture has been strongly influenced by Islam in Algeria Islam, the main religion. The works of the Sanusi family in precolonial times, and of Emir Abdelkader and Sheikh Ben Badis in colonial times, are widely noted.
The Music of Algeria Algerian musical genre best known abroad is raï, a pop-flavored, opinionated take on folk music, featuring international stars such as Khaled (musician) Khaled and Cheb Mami. However, in Algeria itself the older, highly verbal chaabi style remains more popular, with such stars as El Hadj El Anka or Dahmane El Harrachi, while the tuneful melodies of Kabyle music, exemplified by Idir, Ait Menguellet, or Lounès Matoub, have a wide audience. For more classical tastes, Andalusian classical music Andalusi music, brought from Al-Andalus by Morisco refugees, is preserved in many older coastal towns.
In painting, Mohammed Khadda [[http://www.khadda.com/ Mohammed Khadda] official site (accessed 04 April, 2006) ] and M'Hamed Issiakhem [[http://people.africadatabase.org/en/person/13989.html M'Hamed Issiakhem -Algerian painter] people.africadatabase.org (accessed 04 April, 2006)] are notable in recent years.
Miscellaneous topics
* Archeology of Algeria
* Communications in Algeria
* Foreign relations of Algeria
* List of Algeria-related topics
* List of cities in Algeria
* List of Algerians
* List of sovereign states
* Military of Algeria
* Transportation in Algeria
* ''The Battle of Algiers'' movie
* Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962)
* Algerian Civil War (1991-2002)
Directories
- Yellow Pages of Algeria
References
External links
{{portal}}
{{sisterlinks|Algeria}}
'''Government'''
- El Mouradia official presidential site (in French and Arabic)
- National People's Assembly official parliamentary site
- The Embassy of Algeria in Washington, DC
'''News'''
- allAfrica.com - ''Algeria'' news headline links
- El Khabar
- The North Africa Journal business news
'''Overviews'''
- CIA World Factbook - ''Algeria''
- Library of Congress - Country Study: ''Algeria'' data as of December 1993
- Open Directory Project - ''Algeria'' directory category
- Algeria: The Psychos Will Inherit the Earth - an irreverent look at Algeria's military situation
'''Tourism'''
*{{wikitravel}}
'''Other'''
- Algeria Watch human rights organization critical of widespread torture practiced by the régime (in French)
- Algeria’s past needs opening, not closing Analysis on the public referendum held 29 September 2005 by Veerle Opgenhaffen and Hanny Megally
- all City of Algéria
- Algerian-English Online Dictionary
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Image:Algeria_flag_large.png 200px|left'''The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria''', or '''Algeria''', is a nation in north Africa, and the second largest country on the African continent. It is bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco as well as a few kilometers of its annexed territory, Western Sahara, in the west. Constitution of Algeria Constitutionally, it is defined as an Islamic, Arab, and Amazigh (Berber) country. The name Algeria is derived from the name of the city of Algiers, from the Arabic language Arabic word ''al-jazā’ir'', which translates as ''the islands'', referring to the four islands which lay off that city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525.
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