The country's original inhabitants were ethnic Berbers .The native Berber population of Algeria has been under the rule of foreign occupants for most of the last 3000 years. The Phoenicians (1000 BC) and the Roman Republic (200 BC) were the most important of these, until the coming of the Arabs in the 8th century. Formally a part of the Ottoman Empire, Algeria's coast was used as a base for pirates. This was ended by a French invasion in 1830, followed by a complete conquest of Algeria several years later. In 1954, a guerilla war began to make Algeria independent, which succeeded in 1962. The French army in confrontation with demonstrators for Algerian independence, 1960
where is algeria The Republic of Algeria is a country in northern Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea in the north, Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco in the west
 
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Algeria Land of Sun, Sea and Sand Algeria is an Islamic nation and the predominant language is Arabic, second french.
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is the second largest country in Africa, after Sudan. Located on the south coast of the Mediterranean Sea and looking out to the north in the direction of Italy, Algeria has a population of approximately 2.5 million and the majority of its citizens live within 100 miles of the seacoast. Algeria is divided administratively into 48 provinces, a dozen of which make up the southern 3/4 of the country in the vast Sahara desert.
The recent rise in oil prices has greatly boosted Algeria's economy and its government is relaxing former restrictions on foreign ownership and investment. Tourism to Algeria's temperate Mediterranean coast and to the sites of ancient Roman and Carthaginian ruins is also increasing. A vacationer to Algeria would enjoy both the land's heady mix of cultures and the warm and sunny hospitality of her people.   |
