Algerian History and Politics

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Complete the sentence about History of Algeria with the correct year: Evidence of the early human occupation of Algeria is demonstrated by the discovery of 1.8 million year old Oldowan stone tools fou…
Complete the sentence about Zirid dynasty with the correct year: The Zirids of Granada surrendered to the Almoravids in ______, but the Badisides and the Hammadids remained independent during this tim…
Complete the sentence about Almoravid dynasty with the correct year: During their expansion into the Maghreb, they founded the city of Marrakesh as a capital, c. ______.
Complete the sentence about Almoravid dynasty with the correct year: Almoravid power in al-Andalus began to decline after the loss of Zaragoza in ______.
Complete the sentence about Almoravid dynasty with the correct year: Al-Bakri, writing in ______, before their apex, already calls them the al-Murabitun, but does not clarify the reasons for it.
Complete the sentence about Almohad Caliphate with the correct year: Under Abd al-Mu'min, the Almohads overthrew the Almoravids, captured Marrakesh in ______, and established control over the western…
Complete the sentence about Almohad Caliphate with the correct year: In North Africa, revolts by tribes and districts weakened Almohad authority and facilitated the rise of the Marinids from ______.
Complete the sentence about Almohad Caliphate with the correct year: The last Almohad ruler, Idris al-Wathiq, was ultimately reduced to Marrakesh, where he was killed in ______.
Complete the sentence about Zayyanid dynasty with the correct year: On the collapse of the Almohad Caliphate's rule around ______, the Kingdom of Tlemcen became independent under the rule of the Zayya…
Complete the sentence about Regency of Algiers with the correct year: In ______, France took advantage of this domestic turmoil to invade.
Complete the sentence about Regency of Algiers with the correct year: The resulting French conquest of Algeria led to colonial rule until ______.
Complete the sentence about Hayreddin Barbarossa with the correct year: In ______, the brothers captured Algiers from Spain, with Oruç declaring himself Sultan.
Complete the sentence about Hayreddin Barbarossa with the correct year: In ______, Barbarossa took the Peñón of Algiers from the Spaniards.
Complete the sentence about Hayreddin Barbarossa with the correct year: Barbarossa retired to Constantinople in ______ and died the following year.
Complete the sentence about Algiers expedition with the correct year: The ______ battle of Algiers occurred when Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire and king of Spain attempted to lead an amphibious at…
Complete the sentence about Algiers expedition with the correct year: Algiers had been under the control of the Ottoman emperor Suleiman the Magnificent since its help in ______ by Hayreddin Barbaross…
Complete the sentence about Algiers expedition with the correct year: Charles V embarked very late in the season, on 28 September ______, delayed by troubles in Germany and Flanders.
Complete the sentence about Bombardment of Algiers with the correct year: The Bombardment of Algiers was an attempt on 27 August ______ by Britain and the Netherlands to end the slavery practices of O…
Complete the sentence about French conquest of Algeria with the correct year: The Dey was supported, or in some cases controlled by the Janissaries of the Odjak of Algiers, although their power was he…
Complete the sentence about French conquest of Algeria with the correct year: When France in ______ sent an ambassador to the dey with a proposal for negotiations, he responded with cannon fire direct…
Complete the sentence about Invasion of Algiers with the correct year: In ______, the territories conquered around Algiers were organised into three départements, defining the territories of modern Al…
Complete the sentence about Emir Abdelkader with the correct year: After his surrender in ______, he was detained in France for almost five years before being released by Napoleon III and taken to Bur…
Complete the sentence about Emir Abdelkader with the correct year: In ______, his intervention to halt the massacre of the Christian community in Damascus earned him honours and awards from several co…
Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he set out on the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, with his father.
Complete the sentence about Battle of Isly with the correct year: The Sultan of Morocco Abd al-Rahman attempted seizing Tlemcen from the French in October ______.
Complete the sentence about Battle of Isly with the correct year: Algeria's major cities fell and Abd el-Kader saw his mobile encampment destroyed in Taguin in ______ following the Battle of the Smala…
Complete the sentence about Algerian nationalism with the correct year: The earliest surviving nationalistic Algerian work was written by Hamdan ben Othman Khodja, an ex-diplomat of the Regency, 3 yea…
Complete the sentence about Algerian nationalism with the correct year: The Regency of Algiers collapsed in ______, after the Invasion of Algiers by France.
Complete the sentence about Ahmed Messali Hadj with the correct year: By ______ the ENA was banned in France once its links with the French Communist Party were severed.
Complete the sentence about Ferhat Abbas with the correct year: During this period Abbas was pro-French in his outlook, as illustrated by such writings as an article dated ______ titled "I am France".
Complete the sentence about Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema with the correct year: In ______, the association issued a fatwa declaring naturalised Algerians to be non-Muslims.
Complete the sentence about Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema with the correct year: Abdelhamid Ben Badis described what was happening in Palestine in ______ as an "insult to all Muslim countries a…
Complete the sentence with the correct year: When Ben Badis died in ______, Bachir Ibrahimi became AOMA president.
Complete the sentence about Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema with the correct year: Despite its dissolution in ______, the AOMA's ideological contribution to Algeria's political scene was signific…
Complete the sentence about Abdelhamid Ben Badis with the correct year: In ______, Ben Badis, decided to begin his first trip in order to advance his learning.
Complete the sentence about Abdelhamid Ben Badis with the correct year: In ______, Ben Badis returned to Algeria and settled in Constantine.
Complete the sentence about Abdelhamid Ben Badis with the correct year: On 16 April ______, Ben badis died after a long struggle with diabetes.
Complete the sentence about Algerian War with the correct year: A referendum took place on 8 April ______ and the French electorate approved the Évian Accords.
Complete the sentence about Algerian War with the correct year: The decision to capture Algiers was made by Charles X and his ministers in January ______.
Complete the sentence about Algerian War with the correct year: By early ______ however, the real motive was to distract and assuage with a foreign conquest French opinion hostile to the increasingly…
Complete the sentence about Algerian War with the correct year: On the pretext of a slight to their consul, the French attacked and captured Algiers in June ______.
Complete the sentence about National Liberation Front with the correct year: After the Évian Accords of ______, the party purged internal dissent and ruled Algeria as a one-party state.
Complete the sentence about National Liberation Front with the correct year: Didouche was killed on 18 January ______, whilst both Ben Boulaïd and Bitat were captured by the French.
Complete the sentence about National Liberation Front with the correct year: The war for independence continued until March ______, when the French government finally signed the Évian Accords, a cease…
Complete the sentence about National Liberation Army with the correct year: After Algeria won its independence from France in ______, the ALN was converted into the regular Algerian People's National…
Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Algeria with the correct year: In the ______ Constitution, the position is optional and was not assigned under the presidency of Houari Boumédiène.
Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Algeria with the correct year: Starting from the constitutional revision of ______, the position was simply referred to as Head of Government.
Complete the sentence about Algerian dinar with the correct year: The dinar was introduced on 1 April ______, replacing the Algerian new franc at par.
Complete the sentence about Algerian dinar with the correct year: A 200 dinar bi-metallic coin was issued in ______ to commemorate Algeria's 50th anniversary of independence.
Complete the sentence about Bank of Algeria with the correct year: After the country's independence, an agreement transferring the issuing privilege of the Banque de l'Algérie was signed on 13 Decembe…
Complete the sentence about Economy of Algeria with the correct year: Since independence in ______, Algeria has launched major economic projects to build up a dense industrial base.
Complete the sentence about Economy of Algeria with the correct year: French goods, except sugar, have been admitted into Algeria without payment of duty since ______.
Complete the sentence about Sonatrach with the correct year: Founded in ______, it is known today to be the largest company in Africa with 154 subsidiaries, and often referred as the first African oil…
Complete the sentence about Algeria–France relations with the correct year: The first contact between the two nations began in ______, when Algeria was part of the Ottoman Empire.
Complete the sentence about Algeria–France relations with the correct year: The French conquest of Algeria started after a rather peculiar event, in April ______, when the Dey of Algiers supposedly st…
Complete the sentence about Algeria–France relations with the correct year: The Algerians were quick to surrender following the landing of the French army on 5 July ______.
Complete the sentence about Algeria–Morocco relations with the correct year: Morocco was involved in the French conquest of Algeria that started in ______.
Complete the sentence about Algeria–Morocco relations with the correct year: Initially Morocco supported the Algerian resistance groups against France but ceased in ______ following the French bombard…
Complete the sentence about Algeria–Morocco relations with the correct year: In ______, the border between the French Protectorate of Morocco and French Algeria was extended further south with the Var…
Complete the sentence about Algeria–Morocco relations with the correct year: On 23 January ______ King Hassan II of Morocco reported that the Moroccan-Algerian commission at the ministerial level fina…
Complete the sentence about Algeria–Morocco relations with the correct year: After Algerian independence, the border disputes remained leading to skirmishes along the Algerian-Moroccan border and the…
Complete the sentence about Algeria–Morocco relations with the correct year: After two months of fighting, Algeria and Morocco agreed to a ceasefire agreed upon on 29 and 30 October ______ in Bamako…
Complete the sentence about Western Sahara conflict with the correct year: Beginning in ______, the Polisario Front, backed and supported by Algeria, waged a 16-year-long war for independence against…
Complete the sentence about Western Sahara conflict with the correct year: In ______, France intervened as the conflict reached its peak intensity.
Complete the sentence about Western Sahara conflict with the correct year: In ______, Mauritania withdrew from the conflict and territories, leading to a stalemate through most of the 1980s.
Complete the sentence about Polisario Front with the correct year: On 1 May ______, the Polisario Front raided the city of Zouerate, Mauritania, kidnapping six French iron mining technicians and killi…
Complete the sentence about Sand War with the correct year: A formal peace treaty was eventually signed on February 20, ______.
Complete the sentence about Sand War with the correct year: The conflict ended with the annexation of the Touat-Gourara-Tidikelt complex by France in ______.
Complete the sentence about Algerian People's National Army with the correct year: After independence in ______, the Army, led by Houari Boumediène, backed Ahmed Ben Bella to become president.
Complete the sentence about Algerian People's National Army with the correct year: In ______, after promoting eight colonels to become the first generals in independent Algeria, Chadli Benjedid announ…
Complete the sentence about Algerian Air Force with the correct year: In ______, six Algerians were sent for training to the Syrian Arab Air Force flight school at Nayrab near Aleppo.
Complete the sentence about Algerian Air Force with the correct year: The Algerian Air Force was officially established on 4 February ______, as a part of the FLN.
Complete the sentence about Algerian Air Force with the correct year: Two Beech D.185S light transports purchased for the personal use of then President Ben Bella in ______.
Complete the sentence about Flag of Algeria with the correct year: In the twentieth century, it was again taken up by the Algerians who demonstrated in the city of Skikda in ______.
Complete the sentence about Flag of Algeria with the correct year: In modern times, the Ottoman Sultan Selim I used flags combining red and white when he conquered Egypt in ______.
Complete the sentence about Flag of Algeria with the correct year: The star then appeared accompanying the crescent on the Arab-Ottoman flag raised by Algerian protestors in ______.
Complete the sentence about Emblem of Algeria with the correct year: The national emblem of Algeriais the official seal used by the government of Algeria, which was adopted on April 15, ______.
Complete the sentence about Kassaman with the correct year: The song was adopted as the national anthem in ______, when the country gained independence from France.
Complete the sentence about Kassaman with the correct year: The French invaded Ottoman Algeria in ______ and made it an integral part of Metropolitan France within its colonial empire.
Complete the sentence about Algiers Agreement with the correct year: The Ba'ath led government collapsed after the November ______ coup led by Abdul Salam Arif.
Complete the sentence about Algiers Agreement with the correct year: In ______, another revolution occurred with the Ba'ath Party and the Iraqi government, called the 17 July Revolution.
Complete the sentence about Algiers Agreement with the correct year: By ______, there remained unresolved problems between the government and the Kurds about the oil resources of the Kurdish regions o…
Complete the sentence about Algiers Agreement with the correct year: On 11 March ______, the agreement was incorporated into the Iraqi constitution.
Complete the sentence about Paris massacre of 1961 with the correct year: Forty years after the massacre, on 17 October ______, Bertrand Delanoë, the Mayor of Paris, put up a plaque in remembrance of…
Complete the sentence about Paris massacre of 1961 with the correct year: After the May ______ crisis and the installation of the French Fifth Republic under 'Free France' leader Charles de Gaulle's l…
Complete the sentence about Organisation armée secrète with the correct year: The OAS was created in response to the January ______ referendum on self-determination for Algeria.
Complete the sentence about Organisation armée secrète with the correct year: The most prominent attempt was a 22 August ______ ambush at Petit-Clamart, a Paris suburb, planned by a military engineer…
Complete the sentence about Charles de Gaulle with the correct year: Following the ______ Algiers putsch, he came out of retirement at the request of President René Coty, who appointed him Prime Minis…
Complete the sentence about Charles de Gaulle with the correct year: During the German invasion of May ______, he led an armoured division that counterattacked the Nazi German invaders; he was then ap…
Complete the sentence about Jacques Soustelle with the correct year: On returning to France he resumed political and academic activity and was elected to the Académie française in ______.
Complete the sentence about Jacques Soustelle with the correct year: An anti-fascist, he was general-secretary in ______ of the French Union of Intellectuals against Fascism.
Complete the sentence about Jacques Soustelle with the correct year: In ______, he served first as Minister of Information, then as Minister of the Colonies.
Complete the sentence about Jacques Soustelle with the correct year: Thanks to Soustelle's support during the May ______ Algiers revolt, De Gaulle returned to power.
Complete the sentence about Jacques Soustelle with the correct year: Though he believed he would become Algeria Secretary, Soustelle was only named Information Minister in June ______.
Complete the sentence about Jacques Soustelle with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed Minister of State in charge of Overseas Departments by De Gaulle.
Complete the sentence about Guy Mollet with the correct year: In October ______, Mollet was elected to the French National Assembly as a representative from Pas-de-Calais.
Complete the sentence about Guy Mollet with the correct year: In ______, he became secretary-general of the SFIO, standing against Daniel Mayer, the candidate supported by Léon Blum.
Complete the sentence about Maurice Audin with the correct year: The latter was banned on 13 September ______ and became an underground organization, negotiating with the FLN.
Complete the sentence about Djamila Bouhired with the correct year: In ______, she was convicted alongside another Algerian rebel, Djamila Bouazza, of bombing a café and killing 11 people.
Complete the sentence about Djamila Bouhired with the correct year: In April ______, Bouhired was captured in the Casbah of Algiers while carrying a briefcase containing documents.

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