The Foreign Legion landed at Tarragona on 17 August with around 4, 000 men who were quickly dubbed Los Argelinos ( the Algerians ) by locals because of their previous posting.

These “ décideurs ” are reportedly known to Algerians as “ le pouvoir ” (“ the power ”), make major decisions, including who should be president.

These “ décideurs ” are reportedly known to Algerians as “ le pouvoir ” (“ the power ”), make major decisions, including who should be president.

There was resistance against Algerian independence in January 1960 by the settlers and Pieds-Noirs or Jewish Algerians who again took up arms in April 1961, during the Generals ' Uprising, with some of the Algerian Jews siding with the OAS after synagogues were attacked by the National Liberation Front ( Front de libération nationale, FLN ) in Algeria.

The conflict was also a civil war between loyalist Algerians who believed in a French Algeria and their insurrectionist Algerian Muslim counterparts.

The FLN also used pseudo-guerrilla strategies against the French Army on one occasion, with Force K, a group of 1, 000 Algerians who volunteered to serve in Force K as guerrillas for the French.

As Carter recalled, " The Iranians, who spoke Persian, would talk only with the Algerians, who spoke French.

Others were among the about 173, 000 Algerians who had served in the French army during World War I or the several hundred thousand more who had assisted the French war effort by working in factories.

The payouts would be available to victims ' descendants and would include Algerians, who were exposed to nuclear testing in the Sahara in 1960.

Hark Olufs, a sailor from Süddorf who had been enslaved by Algerians in 1724, advanced to the rank of a General ere he was allowed to return to his native island in 1736.

According to the Algerian constitution, a wilaya is a territorial collectivity enjoying economic and diplomatic freedom, the APW, or " Popular Provincial Parliament / Provincial Popular Parliament " ( the Assemblée Populaire Wilayale, in French ) is the political entity governing a province, directed by the " Wali " ( Governor ), who is chosen by the Algerian President to handle the APW's decisions, the APW has also a president, who is elected by the members of the APW, which is elected by Algerians.

Abd El-Kader ibn Muhieddine ( 6 September 1808 near Mascara – 26 May 1883 Damascus ), ( ) known as or ) was an Algerian Islamic scholar, Sufi, political and military leader who led a struggle against the French invasion in the mid-19th century, for which he is seen by some Algerians as the " modern Jugurtha " and a national hero.

The numerous people, mostly Algerians, who are wanted or who have been convicted over this plot include:

Harki ( adjective from the Arabic harka, standard Arabic haraka حركة, " war party " or " movement ", i. e., a group of volunteers, especially soldiers ) is the generic term for Muslim Algerians loyalists who served as auxiliaries in the French Army during the Algerian War from 1954 to 1962.

French is a part of the standard school curriculum, and is widely understood ( 18 million Algerians can write and read French, which is 50 % of the population, and even more who can only speak and understand it ); Ethnologue estimates indicate that 111 000 people in Algeria speak it as their native language, mostly pied-noirs who stayed behind and people raised in French-speaking households.

Despite its military victory, France granted self determination to Algerians who chose to become independent.

During the French era, algérianisme was a literary genre with political overtones, born among French Algerian writers who hoped for a common Algerian future culture, uniting French settlers and native Algerians.

To the Algerians who lived through the Independence War, the mysterious acronym OJAL reminds them of the Organization of the French Algerian Resistance ( ORAF ), a group of counter-terrorists created in December 1956 by the DST / Territorial Surveillance Directorate ) whose mission was to carry out terrorist attacks with the aim of quashing any hopes of political compromise.

A memorial plaque for Algerians killed on 17 October 1961 by Parisian police officers who were acting under orders of the Prefecture of Police | Prefect of Police, Maurice Papon.

Yamani's biography suggests that the Algerians had used a covert listening device on the front of the aircraft to overhear the earlier conversation between the terrorists, and found that Carlos had in fact still planned to murder the two oil ministers.

The months immediately following independence had witnessed the pell-mell rush of Algerians, their government, and its officials to claim the lands, houses, businesses, automobiles, bank accounts, and jobs left behind by the Europeans.

It consisted of a small but influential class of évolués, other Algerians whose perception of themselves and their country had been shaped by wartime experiences, and a body of religious reformers and teachers.

Some of these people were members of the few wealthy Muslim families that had managed to insinuate themselves into the colonial system in the 1890s and had with difficulty succeeded in obtaining for their sons the French education coveted by progressive Algerians.

Some of the Young Algerians in 1926 formed the Federation of Elected Natives ( Fédération des Élus Indigènes, FEI ), as many of the former group's members had joined the circle of Muslims eligible to hold public office.

: The British presence in Egypt and Iraq had been eliminated ; the Baghdad Pact had been defeated ; Jordan's British chief of staff, Sir John Bagot Glubb, had been dismissed ; Lebanon's pro-Western president, Camille Chamoun, had been replaced by the independent Fu ' ad Shihab ; and the Algerians, sacrificing a million dead in a heroic struggle, had triumphed over French colonial power.

Politically, the Muslim Algerians had no representation in the Algerian National Assembly and wielded limited influence in local governance.

Algerian legend claims that the ancestors of the present Maltese, together with the first Algerians, fled from their original homeland of Aram, with some choosing to settle in Malta and others in North Africa, which would suggest that the prototypical Maltese culture had Aramaean origins.

During the division's participation in the Italian Front, the Buffalo Soldiers made contact with units of many nationalities: beyond the attached 442nd RCT, they also had contact with the segregated troops of the British and French colonial empires ( Black Africans, Moroccans, Algerians, Indians, Gurkhas, Arab and Jewish Palestinians ) as well as with exiled Poles, Greeks and Czechs, anti-fascist Italians and the nonsegregated troops of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force.

Two months before, FLN had decided to increase the bombing in France and to resume the campaign against the pro-France Algerians and against the rival Algerian nationalist organization called MNA in France.

More than 5, 000 Algerians were detained in the former Beaujon hospital, in the Japy gymnasium ( XIe arrondissement ) and in the Vél'd ' Hiv — the Japy gymnasium and the Vél'd ' Hiv had been used as detention centers under Pétain's collaborationist regime.

The historian Jean-Luc Einaudi ( La Bataille de Paris, Paris: Seuil, 1991 ) asserted that as many as 200 Algerians had been killed.

Initially De Gaulle seemed to confirm the Algerian settlers ’ hopes that he would support them, ending a speech to them with the cry “ Algerie Francaise ”, but privately he indicated that he had no intention of maintaining control of 9 million Algerians for the benefit of one million settlers.

Yamani's biography suggests that the Algerians had used a covert listening device on the front of the aircraft to overhear the earlier conversation between the hijackers, and found that Carlos had in fact still planned to murder the two oil ministers.

With only 10 hostages remaining, the Boeing 707 left for Algiers and arrived at 3. 40 am After leaving the plane to meet with the Algerians, Carlos talked with his colleagues in the front cabin of the plane and then told Yamani and Amuzegar that they would be released at mid-day.

The Algerians maintain a consular office at the embassy's old home at 435 Daly.

Has a section called " The Organisation of Young Free Algerians, death squadron of the DRS ", an excerpt available at.

According to Einaudi, " Already at this time, policemen boasting about throwing Algerians in the Seine " river.

— Algerians were arrested at work or in the streets and were thrown into the Seine with their hands tied in order to drown them, among the other methods used for this repression, as shown for example by a report published by the priest, Joseph Kerlan, from the Mission de France

On 5 October 1961, the prefecture of police, whose chief was Maurice Papon, announced in a press statement the introduction of a curfew from 8. 30 p. m. to 5. 30 a. m. in Paris and its suburbs for " Algerian Muslim workers ", " French Muslims " and " French Muslims of Algeria " ( all three terms used by Papon, although the approximately 150, 000 Algerians living at the time in Paris were officially considered French and possessed a French identity card ).

Algerians were thrown into and drowned in the Seine at points across the city and its suburbs, most notably at the Saint-Michel bridge in the centre of Paris and near the Prefecture of Police, very close to Notre Dame de Paris.

Ziani is considered to be a national hero by many Algerians, as it was his cross that led to the goal that put them into their first World Cup competition since 1986 at the expense of bitter rivals Egypt.

He is considered to be a national hero by many Algerians, as he was the scorer of the goal that put them into their first World Cup finals since 1986, at the expense of bitter rivals Egypt.

Alas, even after Algeria became independent, some Algerians themselves, with President Benbella at the helm perpetuated this barbaric practice against his jail companions.

With only ten hostages remaining, the Boeing 707 left for Algiers and arrived at 3. 40 a. m. After leaving the plane to meet with the Algerians, Carlos talked with his colleagues in the front cabin of the plane and then told Yamani and Amouzegar that they would be released at mid-day.