Aperçu historique, statistique et topographique sur l’Algerie avant la conquête française

AVANT-PROPOS.

ChargÉs de réunir les renseignemens les plus utiles à notre armée d’Afrique pour l’objet de son expédition, nous les avons rangés de la manière suivante , conformément à l’ordre établi par l’organisation même du Dépôt de la Guerre :
i° Partie historique,
2° Partie statistique,
3° Partie topographique.
Dans la première, nous avons surtout [...]

Mustapha Benboulaïd

Mustapha Benboulaïd (5 February 1917 – 22 March 1956) was born in Arris in a Chaoui family, (Aures) mountainous region of north-east Algeria. In 1939, he fulfilled mandatory military service and was mobilized to fight against the Nazis during the Second World War. During the Italian campaign in 1944, he has been distinguished for his [...]

Charles Quint ’s Disastrous expedition in Algiers

24th OF OCTOBER 1541, *Charles Quint ’s Disastrous expedition in Algiers
When the last Muslim bastion in Granada’s Muslim Andalusia fell on the 02nd of January 1492, a red signal for Muslims was in fact launched as Muslims were driven out of Spain by force and those who remained were forced into Christianity and suffered through [...]

Barbary corsairs

Salah Bey Ben Mostefa (1771 – 1791)

Il doit sa fortune à Ahmed Bey El Kolli. Originaire de Smyrne, il vint à El Djazaïr à l’âge de seize ans et s’engagea dans la corporation des janissaires grâce au parrainage de Ahmed Bey [...]

British Slaves on the Barbary Coast

The fishermen and coastal dwellers of 17th-century Britain lived in terror of being kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery in North Africa. Hundreds of thousands across Europe met wretched deaths on the Barbary Coast in this way. Professor Robert Davis investigates.

Europe under attack
‘When we had arrived [in Cork], I made a request to Lord [...]

Algeria-France Friendship within canon “Baba Merzoug” reach

A piece of artillery dating from the twelfth century is one of many items seized by the French army during the conquest of Algiers in 1830. A campaign is growing in favor of its return
This is perhaps a timid ray of sun in the waters cold and often stormy relations Franco-Algerian, but why not accept [...]

El Hadj Ahmed Ben Mohamed the last pasha of Algeria and bey of constantine

Après avoir été Khalifa de Ahmed El Mamlouk, celui de Mohamed El Mili puis de Brahem Khodja Bey qui faillit le faire arrêter en 1819 pour sa vie extravagante, vivait [...]

La fondation Emir Abdelkader commémore à Tlemcen le traité de la Tafna

La fondation émir Abdelkader a organisé  jeudi  dernier à Tlemcen une journée d’étude sur ”l’Emir Abdelkader et ses positions politiques  et le soufisme” à l’occasion de la commémoration du double anniversaire  de la conclusion  du traité de la Tafna et la mort de cette figure historique.
A l’ouverture de cette rencontre qui a regroupé des professeurs [...]

Baba Aruj, Oruç Reis, عروج بربروس

Oruç Reis (also called Barbarossa or Redbeard) (Turkish: Aruj or Oruç Reis, Arabic: عروج بربروس, Spanish: Arrudye; c. 1474 – 1518) was a Turkish privateer and Ottoman Bey (Governor) of Algiers and Beylerbey (Chief Governor) of the West Mediterranean. He was born on the island of Midilli (Lesbos) in today’s Greece and was killed in [...]