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By Phillip C. Naylor

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is the second one biggest nation in Africa. This, coupled with its situation close to Europe and its prized hydrocarbons (oil and gas), maintains to extend Algeria's overseas significance. Algeria's struggle for liberation from French colonialism, which it ultimately accomplished in 1962, used to be made recognized by way of Gillo Pontecorvo's The conflict of Algiers (1966) and stands as an thought for lots of within reach international locations. notwithstanding, fresh violence prompted partially by way of ideological competition among a declining socialism and emerging Islamism, illustrates post-colonial peril and tragedy. this present day, Algeria endeavors to reconcile its previous with its current. The 3rd variation of the ancient Dictionary of Algeria has gone through large and gigantic alterations when you consider that earlier variations, in particular bearing in mind Algeria's civil strife of the Nineteen Nineties and the country's debatable re-institutionalization and re-democratization. this can be comprehensive through a chronology, an inventory of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, maps, black & white photographs, financial tables and data, appendixes, a bibliography, and thousands of cross-referenced dictionary entries on major individuals, areas, and events.

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