Algiers, the capital of Algeria, stands on a bay of the Mediterranean, backed by the hills of the Sahel. The site was used as a trading post by Phoenicians and became the Roman town of Icosium. The Arab city was developed in the tenth century by Buluggin ibn Ziri, the founder of the Zirid dynasty, on the ruins of the earlier settlement, and it became known as al-Jazā'ir, meaning the islands, after the small islets in front of the harbor. In the sixteenth century it became the base of Ottoman corsairs and the capital of the Regency of Algiers. The French conquered it in 1830, and it was a center of the Algerian War of independence. The old Casbah is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Before and after
- from 929 CE to 1031Caliphate of Córdoba
- c. 930 CEEruption of Ceboruco
- 937 CEBattle of Brunanburh
- 3 January 940 CEBirth of Ferdowsi
- c. 944 CEOrigins of Algiers
- 946 CEConstruction of Monastery of Saint John of Rila
- from 960 CE to 1279Song dynasty
- from 2 February 962 CE to 6 August 1806Holy Roman Empire
- from 963 CE to 965 CESiege of Rometta
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