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Argelia, oficialmente la República Democrática Popular de Argelia, es un país en la región del Magreb del norte de África. Abarcando más de 2.381.741 kilómetros cuadrados (919.595 sq mi), es el país más grande de África y el décimo más grande del mundo. Limita al noreste con Túnez; al este con Libia; al sureste con Níger; al suroeste con Malí, Mauritania y el Sáhara Occidental; al oeste con Marruecos; y al norte con el mar Mediterráneo. Con una población de más de 47 millones, Argelia es el décimo país más poblado de África. Su capital y ciudad más grande es Argel.
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“Around us knowledge has been extinguished, and recruitment of men of religion and men of law has ceased; that is to say, we have made Muslim society much more miserable, more disordered, more ignorant, and more barbarous than it had been before knowing us.”
“Every veil that fell, every body that became liberated from traditional embrace of the haik, every face that offered itself to the bold and impatient glance of the occupier, was a negative expression of the fact that Algeria was beginning to deny herself and was accepting the rape of the colonizer.”
“The Barbary states of North Africa (or, if you prefer, the North African provinces of the Ottoman Empire, plus Morocco) were using the ports of today's Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia to wage a war of piracy and enslavement against all shipping that passed through the Strait of Gibraltar. Thousands of vessels were taken, and more than a million Europeans and Americans sold into slavery.”
“How many miles of railroad built by the colonial powers or children educated in missionary schools equate to the worsening of the effects of the El Niño famines by imperial policies, the indignities produced through the application of scientific racism, or the systematic employment of torture in the Algerian War?”
“You can't question a people's history and you can't insult the Algerians.”
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