Another aim of these images is to promote the opportunity to download Landsat data through the ESA portals , where images captured every day are made available in near real time to the users and the scientific community.
View large format slider. Algiers, Algeria. The Religious Old City. View large image. The Religious Old City View large image Overlay image Before and After These images acquired over Algiers, in a time window of 29 years by the Landsat 5 and 8 satellites, aim to show the significant development of the city during this period of time. Airports: International disputes: Algeria and many other states reject Moroccan administration of Western Sahara; the Polisario Front, exiled in Algeria, represents the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic; Algeria's border with Morocco remains an irritant to bilateral relations, each nation accusing the other of harboring militants and arms smuggling; dormant disputes include Libyan claims of about 32, sq km still reflected on its maps of southeastern Algeria and the National Liberation Front's FLN assertions of a claim to Chirac Pastures in southeastern Morocco.
Major sources and definitions. Nearly four times the size of Texas and the largest country on the continent, Algeria is bordered on the west by Morocco and Western Sahara and on the east by Tunisia and Libya.
The highest point is Mount Tahat in the Sahara, which rises 9, ft 3, m. Excavations in Algeria have indicated that Homo erectus resided there between , and , years ago. Phoenician traders settled on the Mediterranean coast in the 1st millennium B. Conquered by the Vandals about A. Christian during its Roman period, the indigenous Berbers were then converted to Islam. Falling under the control of the Ottoman Empire by , Algiers served for three centuries as the headquarters of the Barbary pirates.
Ostensibly to rid the region of the pirates, the French occupied Algeria in and made it a part of France in Algerian independence movements led to the uprisings of ? In , French president Charles de Gaulle began the peace negotiations, and on July 5, , Algeria was proclaimed independent.
In Oct. He began to nationalize foreign holdings and aroused opposition. He was overthrown in a military coup on June 19, , by Col. Houari Boumdienne, who suspended the constitution and sought to restore economic stability.
After his death, Boumdienne was succeeded by Col. Chadli Bendjedid in Berbers rioted in when Arabic was made the country's only official language. Algeria entered a major recession after world oil prices plummeted in the s. To thwart the electoral results, the army canceled the general election, which plunged the country into a bloody civil war. An estimated , people have been massacred by Islamic terrorists since war began in Jan.
The undeclared civil war escalated in its brutality and senselessness in ? Islamic extremists, who had originally focused their attacks on government officials and then shifted to intellectuals and journalists, abandoned political motivations entirely and targeted defenseless villagers.
The mass slaughters were as savage as they were random, and the government was markedly ineffectual in stemming the violence. Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika's ascension to the presidency in April was initially expected to bring peace and some economic improvement to this desperate war-torn country.
Bouteflika, however, remains locked in power struggles with the military, whose support is crucial. Mr Tebboune has pledged to carry out the necessary reforms, but the former civil servant faces a serious challenge in winning over public trust.
Algeria has a lively private press but the state broadcaster avoids criticism of the government. Recent legislation allows several privately-owned TV stations to operate from Algerian soil, but none of them are opposition-leaning. Some key dates in Algeria's history:. Thousands are killed in suppression of ensuing unrest.
Algeria: A hunger for stability? Presidency in French, Arabic. President: Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
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