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.

Algeria has always been a source of inspiration for different painters who tried to immortalize the prodigious diversity of the sites it offers and the profusion of the facets that passes its population, which offers for Orientalists between the 19 < sup > th </ sup > century and the 20 < sup > th </ sup > century, a striking inspiration for a very rich artistic creation like Eugène Delacroix with his famous painting women of Algiers in their apartment or Etienne Dinet or other painters of world fame like Pablo Picasso with his painting women of Algiers, or painters issued from the Algiers school.

Algeria contains many Roman remains besides those mentioned and is also rich in monuments of Saracenic art.

Music in Algeria in general offers a rich diversity of genre, popular music ( Shaabi ), Arabo-Andalusian music ( Malouf San ' aa, Gharnati, etc.

Notable is a population of the endangered primate, Barbary Macaque, Macaca sylvanus, whose prehistoric range encompassed a much wider span than the present limited populations in Algeria, Morocco and Gibraltar.

The prehistoric range of Pinus pinea included North Africa in the Sahara Desert and Maghreb regions during a more humid climate period, in present day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.

La vache qui pleure is a prehistoric bas-relief ( stone carving ) near Djanet in the south of Algeria.

It states " In Jordan, Freedom House worked to stem violence against women ; in Algeria, it sought justice for victims of torture ; in Uzbekistan, a brutal dictatorship, it sought to defend human rights advocates ; in Venezuela, it worked with those seeking to protect and promote human rights in a difficult political environment.

The alleged finding of human remains, designated San Geronimo, in 1853 afforded striking confirmation of an incident recorded by a Spanish Benedictine named Diego de Haëdo, who published a topography of Algeria in 1612.

Manfred Nowak, a special reporter on torture, has catalogued in a 15-page U. N. report presented to the 191-member General Assembly that the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Sweden and Kyrgyzstan are violating international human rights conventions by deporting terrorist suspects to countries such as Egypt, Syria, Algeria and Uzbekistan, where they may have been tortured.

Several nations known to have been guilty of gross violations of human rights became members of the organization, such as Libya, Cuba, Sudan, Algeria, China, Azerbaijan and Vietnam.

* Algeria Watch: an activist web site concerned with human rights

During the French occupation of Algeria in the 1830s five manuscripts were discovered in Constantine, including two that contained more complete versions of the text.

The French occupation of Algeria in the 19th century ended the fear of Maghrebi attacks in Majorca, which favoured the expansion of new maritime lines, and consequently, the economic growth of the city, which suffered a demographic increase, with the birth of new nucleus of population.

Subsequently fundamentalist forces in Algeria caused a civil war, caused a near-civil war in Egypt, and caused the downfall of the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan.

This event, together with the occupation of the Ottoman province of Algeria by France in 1830, marked the beginning of the gradual break-up of the Ottoman Empire.

De Lesseps was also entrusted by his father with missions to Marshal Count Clausel, general-in-chief of the army of occupation in Algeria.

Operation Torch had an important aftermath on the French military rallying the Army of Africa to the Free French cause and in the same time infuriated Hitler who ordered the occupation of metropolitan France's southern, said free, zone as well as air raids against French Algeria cities by the Libya based Luftwaffe.

Its predecessor originally appeared during the 1830s, in the course of the initial stages of the occupation of Algeria, as a series of various lightweight cane-framed cloth undress caps called casquette d ' Afrique.

First raised in 1831, the Spahis saw extensive service in the conquest of Algeria, in the Franco-Prussian War, in Tonkin towards the end of the Sino-French War ( 1885 ), in the occupation of Morocco and Syria, and in both World Wars.

His reign began at the start of the French occupation of Algeria.

Tunisia was the only Arab country to come under direct Nazi occupation during World War II ; Morocco and Algeria were governed by Vichy France.

President of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika has called the Sétif massacre the beginning of a “ genocide ” perpetrated during the Algerian War by the French occupation forces.

Attempting to prevent German occupation of seaports in North Africa, the 1st Ranger Battalion spearheaded an invasion at the Port of Arzew in Algeria.