Algeria

A community portal about Algeria with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Algeria is the largest country on the African continent after Sudan. It is bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in... [more]

A community portal about Algeria with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Algeria is the largest country on the African continent after Sudan. It is bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco as well as a few kilometers of its annexed territory, Western Sahara, in the west. Constitutionally, it is defined as an Islamic, Arab, and Amazigh country. The name Algeria is derived from the name of the city of Algiers, from the Arabic word al-jaza’ir, which translates as the islands, referring to the four islands which lay off that city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525; al-jaza’ir is itself short for the older name jaza’ir banī mazghanna, "the islands of Bani Mazghanna", used by early medieval geographers such as al-Idrisi and Yaqut al-Hamawi.