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Algeria

//ælˈdʒɪəɹiə// name

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  1. 1
    A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers.; Ottoman Algeria, also the regency of Algiers or al-Jazā’ir in Arabic, from 1515 to 1830 historical
  2. 2
    A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers.; French or Colonial Algeria, from 1830 to 1962 historical
  3. 3
    A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers.; The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, since 1962

Etymology

Etymology tree Arabic جَزَائِر بَنِي مَزْغَنَّى (jazāʔir banī mazḡannā)ellip. Arabic الْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir)bor. French Algerbor. English Alger Latin -iader. English -ia French Algérieinflu. English Algeria From Alger + -ia, modified based on French Algérie, from the French Alger (“Algiers”) + -ie, from Algerian Arabic الدزَاير (ed-dzayer), from Arabic اَلْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir, “the islands”) (with elision of the first vowel), plural of جَزِيرَة (jazīra, “island”), referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers. Doublet of Algiers and Algeciras.

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