Algiers
a seaport in and the capital of Algeria, in the N part.
one of the former Barbary States in N Africa: now modern Algeria.
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How to use Algiers in a sentence
Williams, her daughter and her daughter’s two children generally live together in an Algiers neighborhood apartment.
The coronavirus took her mother. Now this woman, like millions of others, fears she’ll be evicted. | Joe Davidson | December 11, 2020 | Washington PostThe police state system that propped up dictators from Algiers to Islamabad for decades was unsustainable.
Why’s Al Qaeda So Strong? Washington Has (Literally) No idea | Bruce Riedel | November 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“People are now planting bombs in the tramways of Algiers,” he said in 1957, when he was in Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize.
We fought our first foreign war in Algiers to defeat the Barbary pirates.
They avoid the public limelight and are known in Algiers as le pouvoir, the power behind the scenes.
John Kerry can expect many more trips to Algiers in his time as secretary of state.
(p. 361) The tobacco plant is also cultivated in other parts of Africa besides Algiers.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Algiers surrendered to the French under general Bourmont, after a siege of six days.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellAs well look for lions in the outskirts of Algiers, or a pretty woman in the streets of Berne.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellIt was when he was twenty-one and had been sent away to Algiers because he was falling in love with a farmer's daughter.
You Never Know Your Luck, Complete | Gilbert ParkerYour mother said it was Algiers, and there is evidence that it was located in Algiers.
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British Dictionary definitions for Algiers
/ (ælˈdʒɪəz) /
the capital of Algeria, an ancient port on the Mediterranean; until 1830 a centre of piracy. Pop: 3 260 000 (2005 est): Arabic name: Al-Jezair (ˌældʒɛˈzɑːɪə) French name: Alger (alʒe)
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Cultural definitions for Algiers
[ (al-jeerz) ]
Capital of Algeria and largest city in the country, located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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