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504. Algiers ( / ælˈdʒɪərz /) is a historic neighborhood of New Orleans and is the only Orleans Parish community located on the West Bank of the Mississippi River. Algiers is known as the 15th Ward, one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans. [ 1] It was once home to many jazz musicians [ 2][ 3] and is also the second oldest neighborhood in the city.
Algiers ( / ælˈdʒɪərz / al-JEERZ; Arabic: الجزائر, romanized : al-Jazāʾir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located in the north-central part of the country. [ 2] The city's population at the 2008 census was 2,988,145 [ 3] and in 2020 was estimated to be around 4,500,000.
Algiers Point. / 29.95528°N 90.05528°W / 29.95528; -90.05528. Algiers Point is a location on the Lower Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana. In river pilotage, Algiers Point is one of the many points of land around which the river flows—albeit a significant one. Since the 1970s, the name Algiers Point has also referred to the ...
Algeria, [d] officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, [e] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
The Battle of Algiers [a] (also called the great repression of Algiers) [b] [5] was a campaign fought during the Algerian War.It consisted of urban guerrilla warfare and terrorist attacks carried out by the National Liberation Front (FLN) against the French authorities in Algiers, and by the French authorities, army, and French terrorist organizations against the FLN. [6]
The Casbah of Algiers is founded on the ruins of old Icosium in the 10th century. It was a city built on a hill, stretching towards the sea, divided into the "High city" and the "Low city". One finds there masonry and mosques dating from the 17th century: Ketchaoua Mosque (built in 1794 by the Dey Baba Hassan) flanked by two minarets; Djama’a ...
It is located 9.1 NM (16.9 km; 10.5 mi) east southeast [ 1] of the city. The airport is named after Houari Boumediene (1932–1978), a former president of Algeria. Dar El Beïda, the area where the airport is located, was known as Maison Blanche ('White House'), and the airport is called Maison Blanche Airport in much of the literature about ...
Medina quarter. For other uses, see Medina (disambiguation). A medina (from Arabic: مدينة, romanized :madīnah, lit. 'city') is a historical district in a number of North African cities, often corresponding to an old walled city. The term comes from the Arabic word simply meaning "city" or "town". [ 1 ][ 2 ]