The Battle of Algiers (Italian: La battaglia di Algeri; Arabic: معركة الجزائر, romanized: Maʿrakat al-Jazāʾir) is a 1966 Italian-Algerian war film co-written...
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Battle of Algiers or Algiers expedition may refer to: Capture of Algiers (1516), during the Spanish-Ottoman conflict in the Maghreb Algiers expedition...
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The Battle of Algiers (also called the great repression of Algiers) was a campaign fought during the Algerian War. It consisted of urban guerrilla warfare...
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Algiers (/ælˈdʒɪərz/ al-JEERZ; Arabic: الجزائر, romanized: al-Jazāʾir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located in the north-central part of...
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its capital, Algiers, which is also the national capital. It is adopted from the old French department of Algiers and has a population of about 8 million...
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Larbi Ben M'hidi (category Members of the National Liberation Front (Algeria))
operations during the Battle of Algiers where he was the last member of the FLN's Comité de Coordination et d'Exécution (CCE; Committee of Coordination and...
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Algerian War (redirect from Historiography of the Algerian War)
scope. ... The most widespread use of pseudo type operations was during the 'Battle of Algiers' in 1957. The principal French employer of covert agents...
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Gillo Pontecorvo (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of February 2024)
associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for directing the landmark war docudrama The Battle of Algiers (1966),...
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Algeria – March 8, 1996, in Algiers) was an Algerian actor. He is most notable for the roles in the films The Battle of Algiers, Patrouille à l'Est and L'opium...
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Jacques Massu (category Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
fought in World War II, the First Indochina War, the Algerian War and the Suez Crisis. He led French troops in the Battle of Algiers, first supporting and...
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The Regency of Algiers (Arabic: دولة الجزائر, romanized: Dawlat al-Jaza'ir) was a largely independent tributary state of the Ottoman Empire during the...
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The Bombardment of Algiers was an attempt on 27 August 1816 by Britain and the Netherlands to end the slavery practices of Omar Agha, the Dey of Algiers...
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Zohra Drif (category Members of the Council of the Nation)
their efforts. In January 1957, the French authorities declared the Battle of Algiers and the ZAA is heavily hit by French paratroopers commanded by General...
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Saadi Yacef (category Military personnel from Algiers)
Autonome d'Alger (Autonomous Zone of Algiers), making him one of the leaders on the Algerian side in the Battle of Algiers. He was captured by French troops...
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John Howard Lawson, the film is about a notorious French jewel thief hiding in the labyrinthine native quarter of Algiers known as the Casbah. Feeling imprisoned...
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Ali La Pointe (category Battle of Algiers (1956–1957))
leader of the National Liberation Front who fought for Algerian independence against the French colonial regime, during the Battle of Algiers. Ali lived...
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the Battle of Algiers, was to crush the insurgency by whatever means necessary. They threw hundreds of prisoners into the sea from the port of Algiers or...
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of their first single. They chose the name Algiers in reference to Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 film, The Battle of Algiers, and a key historical site of anti-colonial...
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Hassiba Ben Bouali (category Members of the National Liberation Front (Algeria))
in the Casbah. Benbouali was depicted in the movie The Battle of Algiers by Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo. One of the largest avenues in Algiers and...
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The Casbah (Arabic: قصبة, qaṣba, meaning citadel) is the citadel of Algiers in Algeria and the traditional quarter clustered around it. In 1992, the United...
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Marcel Bigeard (category Deputies of the 6th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic)
the beginning of 1956, the regiment participated at the corps of the elite 10th Parachute Division of General Jacques Massu in the battle of Algiers....
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number and frequency, of covert activities by females. The best documented example of this is in the Battle of Algiers. In this battle male FLN operatives...
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Jean Martin (category French military personnel of the First Indochina War)
international audiences for his role as the French paratroop commander Col. Mathieu in The Battle of Algiers (1965), as the gunslinger Sullivan in Sergio Leone's...
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Invasion of Algiers in 1830, the event which ended the Regency of Algiers Battle of Algiers (1956–1957), a battle between the FLN and France Algiers, Indiana...
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Little Omar (category Battle of Algiers (1956–1957))
Liberation Front) during the “Battle of Algiers”. The mission of a liaison officer is to send messages to members of the FLN, to spy on the French soldiers, to...
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10th Parachute Division (France) (category Military units and formations of France in the Algerian War)
the Algiers area. Massu sent the 10e D.P. to search out, arrest and question FLN members. The battle of Algiers proved to be a clear success for the French...
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The Algiers Motel incident (also called the Algiers Motel Murders) occurred in Detroit, Michigan, United States, throughout the night of July 25–26, 1967...
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Winfield & Roberts (2015). Anon. "By a Friend of the National Maritime Museum" (1941) "The Battle of Algiers", Mariner's mirror (October 1941), Vol. 27,...
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Dallos (category Episode list using the default LineColor)
as the 1966 feature film The Battle of Algiers and the 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. In the near future, humanity has drained the Earth of its...
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Algeria (redirect from People's Democratic Republic of Algeria)
from the original on 13 December 2010. Prochaska, David. "That Was Then, This Is Now: The Battle of Algiers and After". p. 141. Archived from the original...
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