Tibet may bleed China as Algeria is bleeding France.

Andalusian so-called Algerian classical music is a musical style that was reported in Algeria by Andalusian refugees who fled the inquisition of the Christian Kings from the 11th century, it will develop considerably in the cities of the North of the Algeria.

Modern music is available in several facets: raï music is a style typical of Western Algeria with his two fiefs are Oran and Sidi Bel Abbès.

Music rap, relatively recent style in Algeria, is experiencing significant growth with the emergence of groups such as MBS, Double Barrel, Intik Hamma Boys.

Merguez sausage is very used in Algeria, but it differs, depending on the region and on the added spices.

There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

Algeria is a member of the following organizations:

Units of the Bonn legion were deployed to theatres of war ranging from modern-day Algeria to what is now the Russian republic of Chechnya.

That convention, which is still in practical force, treats the straits as an international shipping lane, but Turkey retains the right to restrict the naval traffic of non-Black Sea nations ( such as Greece, a traditional enemy, or Algeria ).

The name is attested in inscriptions as " Boudica " in Lusitania, " Boudiga " in Bordeaux, and " Bodicca " in Algeria.

Centime ( from Latin centesimus ) is French for " cent ", and is used in English as the name of the fraction currency in several Francophone countries ( including Switzerland, Algeria, Belgium, Morocco and France ).

Couscous is a staple food throughout Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya.

It is also known as: taam ( طعام ) in Algeria and Morocco ; Kuseksi-in Tunisia, Libya and Kuskusi ( كسكسي ) in Egypt.

Today, in Egypt and the Middle East, couscous is known, but in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya couscous is a staple.

In Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, couscous is generally served with vegetables ( carrots, potatoes, turnips, etc.

In Algeria and Morocco it is also served, sometimes at the end of a meal or just by itself, as a delicacy called " seffa ".

During the time of the Ottomans the crescent began to be associated with Islam and this is reflected on the flags of Algeria, Azerbaijan, Comoros, Libya, Mauritania, Pakistan and of Tunisia.

In 2004 – 2006, two additional plants, one in Ras Laffan, Qatar, and the other in Skikda, Algeria, were built, but as of early 2007, Ras Laffan is functioning at 50 %, and Skikda has yet to start up.

The history of Algeria takes place in the fertile coastal plain of North Africa, which is often called the Maghreb ( or Maghrib ).

Evidence of the early human occupation of Algeria is demonstrated by the discovery of 1. 8 million year old Oldowan stone tools found at Ain Hanech in 1992.

In many Muslim nations, such as Bahrain, Qatar, Algeria, Uzbekistan and the Maldives, homosexuality is punished with jail time, fines, or corporal punishment.

Following the independence of Algeria in 1962, the Foreign Legion was reduced in numbers but not disbanded, unlike most other units comprising the Armée d ’ Afrique: Zouaves, Tirailleurs, Méharistes, Harkis, Goums, Chasseurs d ' Afrique and all but one of the Spahi regiments.

Mali is one of four Saharan states which has created a Joint Military Staff Committee, to be based at Tamanrasset in southern Algeria.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary ( modern Slovakia ) and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south ; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east ; controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.

Raï has been forbidden music in Algeria, to the point of one popular singer being assassinated, although since the 1980s it has enjoyed some considerable success.

* April 3 – The Thalit massacre in Algeria: All but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

The commune of Gorée, created in 1872, was itself one of the oldest Western-style municipalities in Africa ( along with the municipalities of Algeria and South Africa ).

Together with the Saharan Atlas to the south it forms the northernmost of two more or less parallel ranges which gradually approach one another towards the east, merging in Eastern Algeria.

Algeria has fought only one brief war after independence ( the Sand War, a border conflict with Morocco in 1963 ), but the country is also, like most Arab nations, formally at war with the Israel since 1948.

The Zouaves of the French Army were first raised in Algeria in 1831 with one and later two battalions, initially recruited solely from the Zouaoua ( or Zwāwa ), a tribe of Berbers located in the mountains of the Jurjura range ( see Kabyles ).

According to the UNDP, Algeria has one of the world's highest per housing unit occupancy rates for housing, and government officials have publicly stated that the country has an immediate shortfall of 1. 5 million housing units.

) The Treaty of Oujda between Libya and Morocco, which represented a response to Algeria's Treaty of Fraternity and Concord with Tunisia, temporarily aggravated Algerian-Libyan relations by establishing a political divide in the region -- Libya and Morocco on one side ; Algeria, Tunisia, and Mauritania on the other.

In the mid 90s, while Israel and north African states slowly started diplomatic relations, Algeria remained one of the last countries to consider such a move.

Major General Mark W. Clark — one of Eisenhower's senior commanders — was dispatched to Cherchell in Algeria aboard the British submarine — passing itself off as an American submarine — and met with these Vichy French officers on 21 October 1942.

Subsequently however, Emperor Constantine the Great reunited the two provinces in a single one, administered from Cirta, which was now renamed Constantina ( modern Constantine, Algeria ) in his honour.

It was renamed Bone or Bona, and became one of the government centres for the department of Constantine in Algeria.

They follow the Rule of St. Augustine, written sometime between 397-403, for a monastic community Augustine founded in Hippo ( modern day Algeria ), and which takes as its inspiration the early Christian community described in the Acts of the Apostles, particularly Acts 4: 32: " Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common " ( RSV ).

At the storming of Constantine, Algeria, Niel led the engineer detachment with one of the storming parties, and his conduct gained for him the rank of chef de bataillon in 1837.

In 1976 he made The Return Of The Prodigal Son, a " musical tragedy ", but four years earlier had made one of his greatest films, The Sparrow ( 1972 ), both co-productions with Algeria.

He is widely credited with being one of main authors of the important " Manifesto of the 121 ", named after the number of its signatories, who included Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Antelme, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, René Char, Henri Lefebvre, Alain Resnais, Simone Signoret and others, which supported the rights of conscripts to refuse the draft in Algeria.

The genus Anemesia is found only in Central Asia, and Cyrtauchenius reaches from Algeria north to Italy, with one species found in the USA.

In addition, there are 3 million French of Maghrebi origin ( in 1999 ) ( with at least one grand-parent from Algeria, Morocco or Tunisia ).