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French North Africa

noun

  1. the former French possessions of Algeria, French Morocco, and Tunisia

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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American troops were fighting in Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa.

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Spanish was the common language within the company and all had fought during the liberation of French north Africa.

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Such thinking also helped justify the creation of the Code de l’Indigènat in 1875, a French law that institutionalized racism and apartheid in French North Africa by officially designating Muslims as subjects rather than citizens.

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The world woke up to the Fascists’ support a couple of weeks later, after two Italian planes crash-landed in French North Africa.

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All the time, I had been dreaming of visiting Algeria, of seeing Algiers, the capital of French north Africa.

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