Algiers, Also al-Jaza'ir, Icosium

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Algiersالجزائر

An Ottoman sea-fortress on the Mediterranean, invaded by France in 1830.

The Barbarossa brothers made Algiers an Ottoman stronghold in the early 1500s. France invaded in 1830; Emir Abd al-Qadir, a scholar and Sufi, led resistance for fifteen years. Algeria won independence in 1962 after a bitter war.

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