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Alegria. Algeria officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , is a country located in North Africa . It is the largest country on the Mediterranean sea, the second largest on the African continent [6] and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area. [7]
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Alegria Algeria officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country on the Mediterranean sea, the second largest on the African continent[6] and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area.[7] It is bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, a few kilometers of the Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara in the southwest, Morocco in the west and northwest, and the Mediterranean Sea in the north. Its size is almost 2,400,000 km2 with an estimated population near to 35,000,000. The capital of Algeria is Algiers. Algeria is a member of the United Nations, African Union, OPEC and the Arab League. It also contributed towards the creation of the Arab Maghreb Union.
French rule On the pretext of a slight to their consul, the French invaded Algiers in 1830.[29] The conquest of Algeria by the French was long and particularly violent, and it resulted in the disappearance of about a third of the Algerian population
Arrival of Islam • After the waves of Muslim Arab armies then conquered Algeria from its former Berber rulers and the rule of the Umayyid Arab Dynasty fell, numerous dynasties emerged thereafter. Amongst those dynasties are the Almohads, Almoravids, Fatimids of Egypt and Abdelwadids. • Having converted the Kutama of Kabylie to its cause, the ShiaFatimids overthrew the Rustamids, and conquered Egypt, leaving Algeria and Tunisia to their Zirid vassals. When the latter rebelled, the Shia Fatimids sent in the Banu Hilal, a populous Arab tribe, to weaken them.
Geography of Algeria: Most of the coastal area is hilly, sometimes even mountainous, and there are a few natural harbours. The area from the coast to the Tell Atlas is fertile. South of the Tell Atlas is a steppe landscape, which ends with the Saharan Atlas; further south, there is the Sahara desert. The Ahaggar Mountains (Arabic: جبال هقار), also known as the Hoggar, are a highland region in central Sahara, southern Algeria. They are located about 1,500 km (932 mi) south of the capital, Algiers and just west of Tamanghasset. Algiers, Oran, Constantine, and Annaba are Algeria's main cities.
:Language Arabic is spoken as a native language by more than 60 % of the population; of these, over 65% speak Algerian Arabic and around 11% Hassaniya.[56] Algerian Arabic is spoken as a second language by many Berbers.
:Religion • Islam is the predominant religion, followed by more than 90 percent of the country's population. This figure includes all these born in families considered of Muslim descent. Officially Algerians are Muslims at nearly 100%, however atheists or other kinds of non-believers are not counted in the statistics. Nearly all Algerians belong to the Sunni Islam, with the exception of some 200,000 ibadis in the M'zab Valley in the region of Ghardaia.[58] • There are also some 150,000 Christians in the country
