Talk:Algiers

message: The more research I'm doing, the more I'm finding that Algiers has neither an associated municipal government, nor is there anything that could be considered a city proper.  The province is divided into districts, which are further divided into actual city propers which cover metropolitan Algiers.  There is no Algiers City, in that respect so this sentence in the beginning paragraph:
"According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570..."
jh
ted local government for the urban area, or is there not really an Algiers city in terms of local governance? --Criticalthinker (talk) 12:52, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Come on; someone has to know. --Criticalthinker (talk) 03:05, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: City Proper

message: the article Algiers referrences both a coty and a province, I suggest they are seperated
--The Brain 11:47, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  province and city 

message: Algiers is the richest city in the Maghreb, not Casablanca. Anwar 14:57, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Richest city

message: Nowadays, in 2007, Algiers wants to become again a large capital African and Mediterranean Sea, planning to have a level of development of the infrastructures comparable with that which it had in 1962. It undertakes an opening towards the world by organizing many demonstrations and international conferences. Algiers has attracted thus for a few years of great multinationals such as Crossroads, Yves Rocher, or Quick. Many great projects of realization of infrastructures such as subway of Algiers, it tram like various projects of urban reorganization, of creation of new satellite urban centres, pain to be born, though they should have been completed there is more than 15 years: Algiers is in full urban development, moved by a need for assertion at the regional level in its fight to compete with the other North-African cities of Tunisia and of Morocco. For the year 2007, Algiers is capital “Arab culture”. On April 11, 2007, one Attacks of Algiers of April 11, 2007 double atttendants to the bomb aims at the palate of the government (where seat the Prime Minister and the Minister of Interior Department) and the police station of Bab-Ezzouar. These attacks are asserted by Organization Al-Qaïda in the Islamic Maghreb.
I can't make head or tail of this. Perhaps a machine translation. Rmhermen 01:25, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Years 2000 

message: If I am comparing the cities/ urban areas/ metropolitan areas of both Algiers and Casablanca, than Casablanca is coming out as the 'largest' (in terms of population). So I changed the sentence that 'the urban area of Algiers is the largest in the Maghreb', to 'the urban area of Algiers is one of the largest in the Maghreb (behind Casablanca)'. --Robster1983 15:15, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  'The Largest city in the Maghreb' 

message: This is terrible. The grammar and punctuation in the later parts are atrocious.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.247.165.195 (talk) 21:17, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone needs to do some major editing here.... 

message: The article says:
:"...and largest city of Algeria and the second largest city in North Africa behind Casablanca, Morocco."
Has Cairo been sold to Europe? 
Come on people!
4.240.87.252 (talk) 01:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...and largest city of Algeria and the second largest city in North Africa..." 

message: I'm sure someone must know; what is the area of Algiers in square kilometers/miles?  That needs to be added to the infobox. --Criticalthinker (talk) 11:01, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Square Kilometers

message: This article is being discussed in a column by John McIntyre. The part was added back in 2007  by User:December 21, 2012, who is now blocked. (and judging from his talk, he has caused more trouble in this article). Can someone clean it up ? --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:21, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the word salad in question. Lumos3 (talk) 12:37, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  John McIntyre 

message: Algiers is an important economic, commercial and financial center, with in particular a stock exchange with a capitalisation of 60 billion euros.
==> 60 billion euros !
That's not true, the capitalisation is of about 60 million euros, not billions.
See http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourse_d%27Alger (in french)  
This needs editing.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.76.85.141 (talk) 01:54, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Economy

message: History seems a little thin as if Algiers springs into existence during the middle ages.  Nothing more on the Phoenicians?  The Romans built a street and a cemetery?  That's it?  What about ancient man?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.81.159.117 (talk) 06:58, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: Could someone please indicate the English pronunciation of "Algiers"? Having the French pronunciation of "Alger" is nice, but I find the English pronunciation even more relevant to an article in the English Wikipedia. Thanks, --Haspelmath (talk) 16:29, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  .  Couple of refs in case they're needed: M-W, dictionary.com. Lfh (talk) 14:10, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

text: The English pronunciation isn't very unusual and so belongs at the Wiktionary entry (). The French pronunciation, as you noticed, is entirely irrelevant given that it's an Algerian town now and belongs at the Wiktionary entry, all the moreso since it's unsourced. — LlywelynII 23:52, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Why Algiers is a twin of Cairo?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by EgyTig (talk • contribs) 14:54, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twin cities 

message: Please add one night photo in the article. -- Extra999 (talk) 18:00, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  No night photos 

message: Some books with mention of Algiers's early history:
Cities in the Middle East.
Encyclopedia of Islam.
Historic Cities of the Islamic World.
The Places Where Men Pray Together. — LlywelynII 02:52, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for article expansion

message: The Coordinates in the info box, 36°42′N 3°13′E, are for the airport.  I'd guess 36°46′N 3°3′E as reflecting the centre, but someone who knows the place might want to pick a good centre of the city.
Jlittlenz (talk) 04:01, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Coordinates

message: The Berber origin theory is clearly a fringe theory. See the talk page for Algeria for more details. --91.148.130.233 (talk) 15:09, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: Demographics - "The ethnic distribution is 53% from an Arabic-speaking background, 44% from a Berber-speaking background and 3% foreign-born, mostly from China, Vietnam, and Mali."
Can anyone find a source for this information? --J intela (talk) 14:54, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source  

message: What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content. Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 14:55, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Timeline of Algiers]] 

message: Substituted at 07:17, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: Some old sources claim that the city was founded by the Mesgana family, who gave their name to the city (search) but the article doesn't mention this name. Is this dated information that has been replaced by newer evidence, or what? Mathglot (talk) 03:25, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mesgana family 

message: The term demonym is never used in this article, and I think I understand why: the situation is rather confusing. In French, the term algerien originally meant someone from Algiers, and it retained that meaning until around 1892, when algerois took over that meaning, and is still used today for inhabitants of the city. In English, there is the ambiguous Algerian, and in older sources, Algerine. For sources and more details on this, see Talk:Algeria#Terminology of Algeria and Algiers. We have Tangierian in English for residents of Tangiers, but the analogous situation for Algiers yields the ambiguous Algerian, and I suspect that's why it's not covered. Mathglot (talk) 22:44, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demonym