Algeria - Algiers

Algiers (Arabic: الجزائر‎, al-Jazā’er; Algerian Arabic: دزاير, French: Alger) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630.^[1] In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000. An estimate put the population at about 3,574,000 in 2010. Algiers is located on the Mediterranean Sea and in the north-central portion of Algeria.

Sometimes nicknamed El-Behdja (البهجة) or alternatively Alger la Blanche ("Algiers the White") for the glistening white of its buildings as seen rising up from the sea, Algiers is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The modern part of the city is built on the level ground by the seashore; the old part, the ancient city of the deys, climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the casbah or citadel, 122 metres (400 ft) above the sea. The casbah and the two quays form a triangle.

The Maqam Echahid (Arabic: مقام الشهيد‎ Arabic pronunciation: [mækæːm elchæːhiːd] English: Martyrs' Memorial) is an iconic concrete monument commemorating the Algerian war for independence. The monument was opened in 1982 on the 20th anniversary of Algeria's independence. It is fashioned in the shape of three standing palm leaves which shelter the "Eternal Flame" beneath. At the edge of each palm leaf stands a statue of a soldier, each representing a stage of Algeria's struggle.

Consisting of three stylized fins that join mid-height, concrete monument built by the Canadian company Lavalin, based on a model produced in the Fine Art Institute of Algiers under the leadership of Bashir Yelles, it reaches a height of 92 metres (302 ft). Above the three supporting fins at 14 metres (47 ft) from the ground, is an Islamic style turret with a diameter of 10 metres (33 ft) and a height of 7.6 metres (25 ft), topped by a dome of 6 metres (20 ft). It rests on an esplanade that burns an "eternal flame" and includes a crypt, an amphitheater and the Museum of El Mujahid (underground).

The Tuareg (also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym Imuhagh) are a Berber people with a traditionally nomadic pastoralist lifestyle. They are the principal inhabitants of the Saharan interior of North Africa 

White Algiers, view on Algiers.

• Grand Post Office (1910, by Voinot and Tondoire): construction of the neo-Moorish type which is in full centre town of Algiers.
• El Jedid Mosque - The Great Mosque known as Jamaa el Kebir is the oldest mosque of Algiers and is located at Rue de la Marine. The Sultan of Tlemcen, Abu Tachfin, built the mosque in 1324and according to an inscription on the podium of the mosque it existed in the year 1018. The gallery outside the mosque was built in 1840. The façade has a row of white marble columns and the square mosque is divided into alleys with these columns joined by Moorish arches. The Almoravid style has influenced the architecture. The El Jedid Mosque, also known as The New Mosque, built in the 17th century, appears like a Greek cross covered by a huge white cupola in the centre with 4 smaller cupolas on the four sides. This mosque, which is ninety feet high, has a similar interior to that of the Great Mosque.