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Complete the sentence about Oran with the correct year: The beylik lasted until ______ when the city fell to the French.
Complete the sentence about Annaba with the correct year: After the demise of the Almohads, the rule of the Hafsids began in Annaba in ______.
Complete the sentence about Blida with the correct year: The town was rebuilt according to a grid plan following an earthquake in March ______ on a site about a mile distant from the ruins.
Complete the sentence about Blida with the correct year: In ______, French troops occupied the city and built a military base there.
Complete the sentence about Djelfa with the correct year: The town was founded in ______ as a French military post on a geometric plan.
Complete the sentence about Djelfa with the correct year: In ______ the diocese was nominally restored as Latin Catholic titular bishopric.
Complete the sentence about Sétif with the correct year: The city was the starting point of the 8 May ______ protests and massacre, which was a crucial factor to the start of the Algerian War.
Complete the sentence about Tizi Ouzou with the correct year: Tizi Ouzou was founded in ______, after the successful expedition of France against Kabyle tribes.
Complete the sentence about Tizi Ouzou with the correct year: Islamists looted, and burned to the ground, a Pentecostal church on 9 January ______.
Complete the sentence about Skikda with the correct year: Present-day Skikda was founded by French governor Sylvain Charles Valée in ______ under the name Philippeville, honoring the French king at th…
Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 10 October ______, there was an earthquake in Philippeville.
Complete the sentence about Mostaganem with the correct year: Mostaganem reputedly has origins dating back to Punic and Roman times, and was ruled by the Zirid dynasty between 973 and ______ CE.
Complete the sentence about Mostaganem with the correct year: In April ______, during World War Two, the US Navy's "D" Company arrived in Mostaganem to build an amphibious port.
Complete the sentence about Mostaganem with the correct year: Algeria became independent in ______ and Mostaganem is now the second-largest city in the country's northwest, after Oran, and Algeria's f…
Complete the sentence about Ghardaïa with the correct year: In her ______ book, La Force des choses, the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir described Ghardaïa as "a Cubist painting b…
Complete the sentence about Tamanrasset with the correct year: Foucauld was shot to death outside his Tamanrasset compound by Sermi ag Thora under the command of El Madani ag Soba on 1 December ______…
Complete the sentence about Tamanrasset with the correct year: As a military post, the settlement was named Fort Laperrine, after General François-Henry Laperrine's death in the desert nearby in _____…
Complete the sentence about Tamanrasset with the correct year: On 1 May ______, near Ecker, 150 km north of Tamanrasset, there was an accidental venting of a French underground nuclear test.
Complete the sentence about Tindouf with the correct year: In ______, the area was the scene of fighting between Algerian and Moroccan forces laying claim to western Algeria, during the Sand War.
Complete the sentence about Jijel with the correct year: Jijel remained a corsair stronghold until recaptured by the French in ______.
Complete the sentence about Chlef with the correct year: In ______ Maréchal Bugeaud founded the city of Orléansville at the modern site of Chlef.
Complete the sentence about Djémila with the correct year: In ______ Djémila became a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its unique adaptation of Roman architecture to a mountain environment.
Complete the sentence about Casbah of Algiers with the correct year: Colonized by the French in ______, it was gradually marginalized as power centers shifted to the new city.
Complete the sentence about Tassili n'Ajjer with the correct year: The site has been designated a national park and a Biosphere Reserve, and was inducted into the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in __…
Complete the sentence about Tassili n'Ajjer with the correct year: Algerian rock art has been subject to European study since ______, with surveys conducted by "A.
Complete the sentence about Hoggar Mountains with the correct year: Assekrem is a famous and often-visited point, where Charles de Foucauld built a hermitage in ______.
Complete the sentence about Hoggar Mountains with the correct year: Analysis of collected scat in ______ showed the presence of the Northwest African cheetah in the region.
Complete the sentence about Hoggar Mountains with the correct year: A single cheetah was filmed and photographed by Algerian naturalists in ______ in the national park in the Atakor volcanic field.
Complete the sentence about Aurès Mountains with the correct year: The Atlas chain of mountains extends over ______ kilometers in total over Northern Africa.
Complete the sentence about Chott ech Chergui with the correct year: Chott Ech Chergui has an area of about ______ km where water collects during the wet season, forming a number of large shallow salt…
Complete the sentence about Mediterranean Sea with the correct year: Around ______ BC the eastern Mediterranean was greatly affected by the Bronze Age Collapse, which resulted in the destruction of ma…
Complete the sentence about Medjerda with the correct year: Following the last big flood in ______, the Medjerda shifted, once again, its course.
Complete the sentence about Belezma National Park with the correct year: Created in ______, it is located in Batna Province on the slopes of the Belezma Range, a subrange of the Aurès Mountains.
Complete the sentence about Taza National Park with the correct year: Taza National Park was established in ______ by the French colonial administrators in Algeria.
Complete the sentence about Theniet El Had National Park with the correct year: The park was designated as Algeria's first protected national park on July 23, ______.
Complete the sentence about Theniet El Had National Park with the correct year: Text published in L'Écho de Paris, February ______, then in the collection La main gauche.
Complete the sentence about Algeria with the correct year: In ______, the Regency of Algiers was established, gradually emerging as a largely autonomous state owing nominal allegiance to the Ottoman E…
Complete the sentence about Provinces of Algeria with the correct year: On November 16, ______, the announcement was made of 11 new provinces in the Hautes Plaines and the south of the country.
Complete the sentence about Provinces of Algeria with the correct year: By ______ the number of Algerian provinces was fixed at 48 and established the list of municipalities or "communes" attached to…
Complete the sentence about Djamaa el Djazaïr with the correct year: In ______, the engineering and construction company Dessau-Soprin obtained the project management contract.
Complete the sentence about Djamaa el Djazaïr with the correct year: The first concrete foundation casting operations began on 16 August ______, after a launching ceremony.
Complete the sentence about Djamaa el Djazaïr with the correct year: The French consulting firm Egis oversaw the construction from February ______ to verify the additional plans provided by CSCEC.
Complete the sentence about Ketchaoua Mosque with the correct year: Following Algerian independence in ______, this structure was converted back into a mosque.
Complete the sentence about Ketchaoua Mosque with the correct year: In ______, following the French conquest of the Algerian city of Constantine, Marshal Sylvain Charles Valée mounted a cross on top o…
Complete the sentence about Palais des Rais with the correct year: The site was classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ______.
Complete the sentence about Palais des Rais with the correct year: The sole historical reference available pertains to Palace 18, which was built by Rais Mami Arnaout around ______.
Complete the sentence about Palais des Rais with the correct year: After ______, the year of Algiers' occupation, Palace 18 underwent several changes in function.
Complete the sentence about Palais des Rais with the correct year: After Algeria's independence in ______, Algerian families occupied the historic site, leading to certain alterations.
Complete the sentence about Palais des Rais with the correct year: In ______, the Ministry of Culture initiated a phased intervention to safeguard the historic landmark.
Complete the sentence about Lambaesis with the correct year: Initially revived as Lambaisis, it was renamed Lambaesis in ______.
Complete the sentence about Lambaesis with the correct year: In addition to inscriptions and statues, there are some fine mosaics found in ______ near the arch of Septimius Severus.
Complete the sentence about Great Mosque of Tlemcen with the correct year: The original Almoravid mosque presumably had no minaret, as the current minaret was only added in ______ by Yaghmorasan.
Complete the sentence about Great Mosque of Tlemcen with the correct year: The top of the minaret was formerly crowned with an Arabic inscription made in copper, the pieces of which were moved to a lo…
Complete the sentence about In Salah with the correct year: In February ______, BP announced further project start up at In Salah Southern Fields.
Complete the sentence about Taghit with the correct year: The town was the site of the Battle of Taghit in ______, in which 4000 Zayanes Berbers besieged the French in the town, whom they outnumbered…
Complete the sentence about Sidi M'Cid Bridge with the correct year: The bridge underwent restoration in ______ when 12 of its cables were replaced by the Algerian company SAPTA.
Complete the sentence about Sidi M'Cid Bridge with the correct year: The bridge remained the highest bridge in the world till the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado opened in November ______.
Complete the sentence about Bordj Bou Arréridj with the correct year: Bordj Bou Arréridj has a team in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1: CA Bordj Bou Arréridj, founded in ______.
Complete the sentence about Khenchela with the correct year: The French army reached Khenchela in ______ after heavy fighting and strenuous resistance and set up a military administration.
Complete the sentence about Khenchela with the correct year: In October ______, the inauguration of the meter-gauge railway line from Aïn Beïda to Khenchela provided daily service with the north of th…
Complete the sentence about Guelma with the correct year: Guelma was established as a city in ______ and developed by French settlers.
Complete the sentence about Guelma with the correct year: The Roman theater of Guelma was restored in ______ under the rule of mayor M.
Complete the sentence about Guelma with the correct year: During the Sétif massacre of 8 May ______, numerous settlers were killed.
Complete the sentence about Mila, Algeria with the correct year: Constantine department later became Constantine Province after the independence of Algeria, of which Mila was dependent till the creati…
Complete the sentence about Saïda with the correct year: Saïda was a stronghold of Abd al-Qadir, the Algerian national leader, who burned the town as French forces approached it in ______.
Complete the sentence about Saïda with the correct year: Modern Saïda was founded as a French military outpost in ______ and once housed a regiment of the French Foreign Legion.
Complete the sentence about Tiaret with the correct year: A ______ study by the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis reported significant areas contaminated by industrial pollution, and growing squatte…
Complete the sentence about Tiaret with the correct year: The Africa Institute reported in a May ______ monograph that Tiaret's more "arid and mountainous landscape has facilitated terrorist activitie…
Complete the sentence about Aïn Témouchent with the correct year: The town was founded in ______ by Spanish immigrants, who built on what had been the site of Roman Albulae and Arab Ksar ibn Senar.
Complete the sentence about Tindouf Province with the correct year: From independence in ______, the Kingdom of Morocco claimed the Tindouf area and western Algeria as part of Morocco.
Complete the sentence about Tindouf Province with the correct year: After Algeria's independence in ______, Morocco's claim to Tindouf was not accepted by the new Algerian republic.
Complete the sentence about Algiers Province with the correct year: In ______, Boumerdès Province and Tipaza Province were carved out of its territory.
Which place completes this sentence about Djelfa? In the 11th century, the Fatimids sent the Banu Hilal to the Tripolitania, Tunisia and ______ areas against the Zirids.
Which place completes this sentence about Skikda? The French were in the process of annexing Algeria and developed Philippeville as a port for ______, Algeria's third-largest city.
Which place completes this sentence about Mostaganem? Mostaganem is the second-largest city after ______ in Algeria's northwest, and the country's fourth-largest port.
Which place completes this sentence about Mostaganem? Algeria became independent in 1962 and Mostaganem is now the second-largest city in the country's northwest, after ______, and Algeria's fourth-la…
Which place completes this sentence about Ouargla? According to Ibn Khaldun, the town was founded by Banu Wargla who, accompanied by sections of the Maghrawa and Banu Ifran, left the ______ region and…
Which place completes this sentence about Béchar? The main road through Béchar is the N6 highway; it connects to Mecheria, Saida, Mascara and ______ to the north, and to Adrar and Timiaouine to the so…
Which place completes this sentence about El Oued? In the 11th century, the Fatimids sent Banu Hilal to the Tripolitania, Tunisia and ______ areas to fight against the Zirids.
Which place completes this sentence about El Oued? The N48 connects El Oued to the town of Still to the north, from which the N3 may be used to reach ______.
Which place completes this sentence about Médéa? Médéa was the capital of the Beylik of Titteri; a Bey, deputy of the Dey of ______, was resident there.
Which place completes this sentence about Casbah of Algiers? Administratively, it is located within the municipality of Casbah, in the province of ______.
Which place completes this sentence about Casbah of Algiers? Over time, it came to designate the entire medina, which was enclosed by the ramparts built during the Regency of ______ in the 16th centur…
Which place completes this sentence about Casbah of Algiers? The Casbah is located at the center of ______ and forms its historic core.
Which place completes this sentence about Djurdjura? The Thaletat is a 1,638 m high rocky mountain with a very original shape located in ______ Province.
Which place completes this sentence about Djurdjura? Famous mediaeval explorer Ibn Batuta went to ______ across this mountain range.
Which place completes this sentence about Soummam? The Soummam River is a river in northern Algeria, born from the confluence of the Sahel River and the Bou Sellam River near Akbou and flowing into th…
Which place completes this sentence about Belezma National Park? Created in 1984, it is located in ______ Province on the slopes of the Belezma Range, a subrange of the Aurès Mountains.
Which place completes this sentence about Algeria? In 1516, the Regency of ______ was established, gradually emerging as a largely autonomous state owing nominal allegiance to the Ottoman Empire.
Which place completes this sentence about Algeria? The ______ and Guelma massacre in 1945 catalysed local resistance that culminated in the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954.
Which place completes this sentence about Ketchaoua Mosque? In 1838, following the French conquest of the Algerian city of ______, Marshal Sylvain Charles Valée mounted a cross on top of the cathedral…
Which place completes this sentence about Tamanrasset? Foucauld was shot to death outside his ______ compound by Sermi ag Thora under the command of El Madani ag Soba on 1 December 1916.
Which place completes this sentence about Tamanrasset? On 1 May 1962, near Ecker, 150 km north of ______, there was an accidental venting of a French underground nuclear test.
Which place completes this sentence about Cirta? Cirta, also known by various other names in antiquity, was the ancient Berber and Roman settlement which later became ______, Algeria.
Which place completes the sentence? The cities of ______ and Bouira are 70 km east and 115 km northwest, respectively.
Which place completes this sentence about Guelma? During the ______ massacre of 8 May 1945, numerous settlers were killed.
Which place completes this sentence about Relizane? The Turks built a bordj there, hence the name Bordj Ighil Izan, to control the road to ______.
Complete the sentence about Algiers with the correct year: Algiers was formally founded in 972 AD by Buluggin ibn Ziri, though its history goes back to between ______ and 250 BC as a Phoenician tradin…
Complete the sentence about Sidi Bel Abbès with the correct year: The present city, on the Wadi Sig River, developed around a French camp built in ______.
Complete the sentence about Tébessa with the correct year: In June ______, a Latin codex of 26 leaves written by the Manichaeans was discovered in a cave near the city.

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