Algeria is rich in prehistoric memorials of human occupation, especially in megalithic remains, of which nearly every known kind has been found in the country.

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

Support from Algeria remains strong, despite the country's preoccupation with its own civil war.

It was once also found in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria, but may have been extirpated from Algeria and only remains in Tunisia because of a reintroduction programme.

The murder caused intense shock in Algeria, and remains a moment of iconic importance in the country's modern history.

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.

The Arabic dialect of the Beni Hassan, Hassaniya, remains the mother-tongue of Mauritania and Western Sahara to this day, and is also spoken in southern Morocco and western Algeria, among affiliated tribes.

It remains the principal center of Ibāḍism in North Africa, with remaining Ibāḍī communities on Djerba in Tunisia, in the M ' zab in Algeria, and in Jabal Nafusa in Libya.

Malika Rebai Maamri, author of " The Syndrome of the French Language in Algeria ," said " The language spoken at home and in the street remains a mixture of Algerian dialect and French words.

In 2006, Moeritherium chehbeurameuri has been described from fossil remains found in the early late Eocene locality of Bir El Ater, Algeria.

* National day ( Algeria )

** Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria: Four guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half.

** The OAS signs a truce with the FLN in Algeria, but a day later announces that it will continue the fight on behalf of French Algerians.

It corresponds to present day Morocco and a part of western 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 start of the Second Punic War ( 218-201 BC ), Masinissa fought for Carthage against Syphax, the King of the Masaesyli of western Numidia ( present day Algeria ), who had allied himself with the Romans.

Abu-l -' Abbas Ahmad ibn Mohammed al-Maqqari ( or Al-Makkari ) ( c. 1578 – 1632 ) was a historian born in Tlemcen, present day Algeria.

From 1848 until independence, the whole Mediterranean region of Algeria was administered as an integral part of France, much like Corsica and Réunion are to this day.

In Algeria, a common speed is just 2m per day at 15m depth.

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.

Numidia was a Berber kingdom located in North Africa ( roughly corresponding to northern modern day Algeria ) not far from Rome's arch enemy, Carthage.

In Saharan countries, there is a term Al-Maghreb Al-Qadeem aka Old Maghreb ( Ancient Trans-Saharan trading sphere of influence, cross culturalization and trade ; primarily consisting of over 20 countries such as: present day Morocco ( Taghaza ), Algeria ( Djayr ), Tunisia ( Tunis ), Libya ( Libu ), Egypt ( Kemet ), Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Ancient Ghana ( Ouagadougou ), Niger and Nigeria were once one region, Burkino Faso, The Western Sahara ( also Taghaza ), South Africa, Sudan ( Nubia ), Somalia, Ethiopia ( Kush ), Eritrea etc.

) and Al-Maghreb Al-Jadeed ( New Maghreb )( only consisting of present day Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya ).

In 789 A. D., he captured Tlemcen ( modern day Algeria ) which became part of the kingdom.

The lion survived in the wild in northwestern Africa in what is now current day Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco until about 1922.

She was born in the early 7th century and died around the end of the 7th century in modern day Algeria.

While this view may or may not be plausible, some evidence has been recovered at the site of her deathplace, modern day Algeria.

The next day, Friday November 20, Beja was furiously bombed by German airplanes for many hours, because of its key position leading to the roads of Tabarka, Mateur, Bizerte and Algeria.

It is said that there used to be twenty-four nuba linked to each hour of the day, but in Algeria there are only sixteen nuba and in Morocco eleven have survived, which together include 25 " Andalusian " modes.

The Numidians were the Berber people who lived in Numidia ( present day: Algeria ) and in a smaller part of Tunisia.

Hyflux, in April 2008, won the bid for the largest seawater desalination plant in Algeria, with a capacity of 500, 000m3 / day and a project value of US $ 468 million ( about S $ 632 million ) awarded by Algeria Energy Company ( AEC ), the government company handling power and water privatisation exercise in Algeria.

Today Algeria contains, in its literary landscape, big names having not only marked the Algerian literature, but also the universal literary heritage in Arabic and French.

French citizens also migrated in large numbers, mainly to the colonies in the north African Maghreb region: 1. 3 million settled in Algeria ; 200, 000 in Morocco ; 100, 000 in Tunisia ; while only 20, 000 migrated to French Indochina.

* 1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.

The Foreign Legion's first service in Algeria came to an end after only four years, as it was needed elsewhere.

On October 19, 2004, following the UN Secretary General's report, the UN Security Council voted unanimously ( meaning that it received the backing of Algeria, the only Arab member of the Security Council ) to put out a statement calling on Syria to pull its troops out of Lebanon, in accordance with Resolution 1559.

Prior to the mid 1990s, WNV disease occurred only sporadically and was considered a minor risk for humans, until an outbreak in Algeria in 1994, with cases of WNV-caused encephalitis, and the first large outbreak in Romania in 1996, with a high number of cases with neuroinvasive disease.

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.

* Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations: list of bilateral treaties with Algeria ( in Spanish only )

Algeria was unique to France because, unlike all other overseas possessions acquired by France during the 19th century, only Algeria was considered an integral part of France in the same manner that Alaska and Hawaii are considered states in the United States of America, despite their geographic distance from the mainland.

Born in Algeria, his mother was the only child of Prince Louis II and Marie Juliette Louvet ; she was later legitimized through formal adoption and subsequently named heiress-presumptive to the throne of Monaco.

However, the severity of his conduct in suffocating a whole Arab tribe in the Dahra or Dahna caves, near Mustaganem, where they had taken refuge ( 18 June 1845 ), aroused such indignation in Europe that Marshal Soult, the minister of war, publicly expressed his regret ; but Marshal Bugeaud, the governor-general of Algeria, not only approved, but secured for Pélissier the rank of général de brigade ( brigadier ), which he held until 1850, when he was promoted to général de division ( division commander ).

* Algérie ( Algeria ), once similar to Tunis, but incorporated directly into the French Republic, got its only High commissioner on 19 March 1962: Christian Fouchet ( b. 1911 – d. 1974 ), until its 3 July 1962 independence from France ( Algerian State ; 25 September 1962 People's Democratic Algerian Republic ruled by the FLN, the former armed revolt )

After attempting in vain to gain backing from several Arab governments, including both Algeria and Morocco, but only drawing faint notices of support from Libya and Mauritania, the movement eventually relocated to Spanish-controlled Western Sahara to start an armed rebellion.

The Arab world has by and large supported Morocco ; only Algeria and Libya have, at different times, given any significant support to POLISARIO.

The Eurail Pass is a rail pass for 18 European countries ; it is only available for persons who do not live in Europe, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

North of the Sahara, it only occurs in Morocco and Algeria, but has now possibly disappeared from the latter country and the subspecies from this region ( L. s. constantina ) is considered endangered under US-ESA.

In the 1930s, French liberals saw only the évolués as a possible channel for diffusing political power in Algeria, denigrating Messali Hadj for demagoguery and the AUMA for religious obscurantism.

Algerian Muslims rallied to the French side at the start of World War II as they had done in World War I. Nazi Germany's quick defeat of France, however, and the establishment of the collaborationist Vichy regime, to which the colons were generally sympathetic, not only increased the difficulties of the Muslims but also posed an ominous threat to the Jews in Algeria.

He rose rapidly through the ranks ( Lieutenant 1835, Captain 1837 ), through successful actions during the Foreign Legion campaign in Algeria and against the Carlists in Spain ( 1835 – 1839 ), where in 1835 he was cited for bravery and gallantry in action on several occasions and rewarded with the cross ( Chevalier ) of the Légion d ' honneur after only four years in the Army.

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 Africa can be found only in small areas in the north, being present as wintering in northern Morocco and northern Algeria.