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  • Annaba, Algeria: 3,000 Years of History

    It was no accident that seafaring explorers from far off Phoenicia (today’s Lebanon) hoisted their flag at the site of Annaba more than 3,000 years ago. Then as now, Annaba is a natural port ...

  • The Sheraton Club Des Pins Resort in Algiers

    You might think that Algeria wasn’t the type of place to support a large, luxurious hotel... and if you do, you’d be wrong. The Sheraton Club des Pins Resort and Towers is located just west of ...

  • Snow in Summer: Algeria’s Hoggar Mountains

    The Hoggar Mountains, also known as the Ahaggar Mountains, rear up out of their sweltering sandy base in Algeria’s forbidding southeast Sahara desert region. Volcanic in origin but severely ...

  • From the Sahara to the Somme: The Zouaves

    Zouaves were soldiers of the French Army who were recruited from Algerian Berber tribesmen and the large European emigrant population that lived in Algeria from the 1830s up until the ...

  • Zinedine Zidane, a Kabyle from La Castellane

    Zinedine Zidane may be the best soccer player ever to play for the French national team, and his record in professional league play over 18 years is virtually unmatched. A soccer superstar for ...

  • Tiaret Algeria: Ancient Station, Modern Town

    Tiaret is a town of about 150,000 people located about 100 miles inland from the Mediterranean seacoast. Known variously as Tiaret, Tahert or Tihert, it is the main city in the province of ...

  • The Game that Changed the World Cup – Algeria

    Football, known more popularly as Soccer in the United States, has a long history in Algeria. The nation’s former long-time colonial masters, the French, introduced the so-called “beautiful ...

  • Algeria – Sands of the Sahara

    Algeria is a land of contrasts, and that is reflected in the geography of the country itself. Most of Algeria's population lives on the Mediterranean coast or within a few miles of it. This ...

  • Algeria: The War for Independence

    Many historians believe that modern day terrorism started with the initial conflict that would become Algeria's War of Independence. On November 1, 1954, the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) ...

  • Tamanghasset and the Tuareg – Algeria

    Tamanghasset is a town of about 40,000 located in the southern part of Algeria that is also the administrative capital of Tamanghasset province, the largest province in the country. Large it may ...

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