Questions tagged [algeria]
Question related to the history of Algeria, a country in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Morocco to the northwest, Tunisia to the northeast, Libya to the east, Niger to the southeast, Mali to the southwest, and Mauritania to the west.
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Anyone have a clue what was going on with Biledulgerid?
Wikipedia has a tiny stub on Biledulgerid that—on the basis of its 19th century source—treats it as an actual kingdom in early modern northwest Africa. This early 18th-century source, meanwhile, ...
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Did French troops use chemical weapons during the Siege of Laghouat in 1852?
During the Siege of Laghouat in Algeria, the French army massacred around 3627 civilians.
Many sources suggest that the colonial army also used chemical weapons in that confrontation.
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Was there a massacre in the Algerian war calculated to provoke French reprisals?
This was something I read in the 70s, about an early Algerian war massacre. This was in a popular, French magazine (I don't remember the name) - think Readers’ Digest and you’re not far off.
Now, ...
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Why was Abane Ramdane killed?
The Wikipedia entry about Abane Ramdane says:
The National Liberation Front (FLN) had killed him because he was
supposedly creating a cult of the individual rather than the
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How did the European and international left react to the Cafe War?
During Algerian decolonization, one episode was the Cafe War, when the mainstream Algerian independence group FLN and the communist MNA killed each other's members. This left several thousand dead in ...
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