In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.

" Symbolically, Oran turns its back on life.

The Vichy government held Oran during World War II until its capture by the Allies in late 1942, during Operation Torch.

In less than three months Oran lost about half its population.

Regarded as the capital of eastern Algeria and the centre of its region, Constantine has a population of 448, 374 ( 1, 000, 000 with the agglomeration ), making it the third largest city in the country after Algiers and Oran.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

The theme is also present in the many other nameless citizens who are separated from loved ones in other towns or from those who happened to be out of town when the gates of Oran were closed.

* The Great Synagogue of Oran, Algeria, built in 1880, but converted into a mosque after Algerian independence when all Algerian Jews were driven into exile.

The Arabs of Oran were known for al-andalous, a classical style of music imported from Southern Spain after 1492.

The last raids on Gibraltar were done during the 1943 Allied landing in Algeria, when those bombers even managed to hit the port of Oran successfully.

This group — which included George Johnston, George MacLachlan, William Shield, Donald Cameron, Oran McPherson, and Austin Claypool — contacted Brownlee to alert him to their intentions and were taken aback when the Attorney-General told them that if Greenfield resigned, so would he.

France executed in retaliations two Moroccans, Mohamed Beliano and Benkirane, under the pseudo-motives of espionage, while all their goods were seized by the military governor of Oran, General Boyer.

Allied landings were made at Algiers and Oran by 70, 000 British and United States troops on November 8, 1942, in coordination with landings in Morocco.

As part of Operation Torch under the overall command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Algiers and Oran were secured two days later after a determined resistance by French defenders.

By September 1962, cities such as Oran, Bône, and Sidi-Bel-Abbès were half-empty.

The engineers were unable to refloat the Phoenixes and US Navy Captain ( later Rear Admiral ) Edward Ellsberg, already well known for quickly refloating scuttled ships at Massawa and Oran, was brought in to accomplish the task, though not without obtaining Churchill's intervention in taking the task away from the Royal Engineers and giving it to the Royal Navy.

As it became clear that the war was lost for France, the high command ordered what remained of the Armée de l ’ Air to French colonies in North Africa in order, so they believed at the time, to continue the fight, such that Armée de l ’ Air units were stationed at places like Alger-Maison-Blanche and Oran in Algeria and Meknes and Rayack in Morocco.

He implemented the plan – codenamed " Operation Catapult " – for a British fleet, coded " Force H " and based in Gibraltar, to sail to the harbor of Mers-el-Kébir, near Oran in Algeria, where four capital ships and other vessels were stationed, in order to persuade Admiral Marcel-Bruno Gensoul to disobey orders from Vichy and have his vessels sail either to British waters or else to those of French colonies in the Far East or even to the ( still neutral ) USA with a view to preventing them from being used against the Allies.

The Spanish were evicted from Oran in 1792, but thirty years later they were replaced by the French, who seized Algiers.

Returning to Oran, he finally married Rachel, and their first two sons Adolph and Fernand were born there.

The unit was sent to England and then to Oran, Algiers where they were redesignated the 202nd Inf.

Her parents were of Irish, Scottish, Italian and Sephardic Jewish descent from Oran, Algeria

Orders from his headquarters in the Grand Hotel of Oran were headed with “ II Corps – In the Field ” which prompted laughter from his troops living in tents and slit trenches.

* To the west of Paris, 27 communes of the Seine department were grouped with nine communes of Seine-et-Oise to form the new Hauts-de-Seine department, and the official number 92 was assigned to this department ( a number previously used for the department of Oran in French Algeria ).

It has several Roman remains, mosaics, and artworks, which were deplaced to the museum of nearby Oran.

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

In the town of Oran, thousands of rats, initially unnoticed by the populace, begin to die in the streets.

The town Oran, which gets afflicted by pestilence and cut off from the outside world, is the equivalent of France.

After Ali ibn Yusuf's death in 1143, his son Tashfin ibn Ali lost ground rapidly before the Almohads, and in 1146 he was killed by a fall from a precipice while attempting to escape after a defeat near Oran.

Raï (), which is the Arabic word for " opinion ", is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture.

The return of the Stone of Scone to Scotland is documented in the Scottish Gaelic song Oran na Cloiche ( Song of the Stone ), covered by artists including Kathleen MacInnes and Mànran.

The first US Army Combat Jump was near Oran, Algeria, in North Africa on November 8, 1942 conducted by elements of the 509th Parachute Infantry.

Seven of the 39 C-47s landed far from Oran from Gibraltar to Tunisia, and only ten actually delivered their troops by parachute drop.

The violence lasted several hours, including lynching and acts of torture in public places in all areas of Oran by civilians supported by the ALN — the armed wing of the FLN, at the time evolving into the Algerian Army — resulting in 3, 000 missing people:

Philip helped his Bourbon relatives to make territorial gains in the War of the Polish Succession and the War of the Austrian Succession by reconquering Naples and Sicily from Austria and Oran from the Ottomans.

Torch was the first major airborne assault carried out by the U. S. The U. S. 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment flew all the way from Britain, over Spain, intending to drop near Oran and capture airfields at Tafraoui and La Senia respectively and south of Oran.

The name Numidia was first applied by Polybius and other historians during the third century BC to indicate the territory west of Carthage, including the entire north of Algeria as far as the river Mulucha ( Muluya ), about 100 miles west of Oran.

On the other hand, the Oran massacre of 1962 by the FLN has also not yet been recognized by the Algerian state.

In 1834, Algeria became a French military colony and, in 1848, was declared by the constitution of 1848 to be an integral part of French territory and divided into three French departments ( Algiers, Oran and Constantine ).

Oran was founded in 903 by Moorish Andalusi traders but was captured by the Spanish under Cardinal Cisneros in 1509.

Oran, a seaport in Western Algeria, was invaded by the Spanish in the 16th century ; Spanish troops kept women there to entertain the troops, and the city has retained a reputation for hedonism ever since.