Algiers

Algiers ( al-Jazā’ir, Algerie Arabic an Berber: Dzayer دزاير ; , ) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Algerie an the Maghreb.

Cawed El-Bahdja (البهجة) or alternatively Alger le Blanc ("Algiers the White") for the glistenin white o its buildings as seen risin up frae the sea, Algiers is situatit on the wast side o a bay o the Mediterrane Sea. The ceety name is derived (via French Alger an Catalan AlguèreOrigins of Algiers by Louis Leschi, speech delivered June 16, 1941 published in El Djezair Sheets, July 1941 History of Algeria .) frae the Arabic wird الجزائر al-jazā’ir, which translates as the islands, referrin tae the fower islands which lay aff the ceety's coast till becomin pairt o the mainland in 1525. Al-jazā’ir is itsel a truncatit form o the ceety's aulder name جزائر بني مازغان jazā’ir banī mazghannā, "the islands o (the tribe) Bani Mazghanna", uised bi early medieval geographers such as al-Idrisi an Yaqut al-Hamawi.

The modren pairt o the ceety is biggit on the level grund bi the seashore; the auld pairt, the auncient ceety o the deys, climbs the steep hill ahint the modren toun an is crouned bi the casbah or citadel, 400 ft (122 m) abuin the sea. The casbah an the twa quays form a triangle.

 Internaitional relations 
 Twin touns — Sister ceeties 
Algiers is twinned wi:
  Cairo, Egyp
  Amman, Jordan
  Beijing, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
  Berlin, Germany
  Tunis, Tunisie
  Paris, Fraunce
  Montreal, Canadae
  Lunnon, Unitit Kinrick
  İzmir, Turkey
  Tyre, Lebanon
  Santiago, Chile
  Sofia, Bulgarie
  Moscow, Roushie
  Bordeaux, Fraunce
  Barcelona, Spain  Geneva, Swisserland
  Washington, D.C., Unitit States
  Roum, Italy
  Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Dubai, Unitit Arab Emirates
  São Paulo, Brazil
  Buenos Aires, Argentinae
  Shanghai, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
  Tripoli, Libie
  Dakar, Senegal
  Bosaso, Somalie
  Rabat, Morocco
  Surakarta, Indonesie
In addition, mony o the wards an ceeties athin Algiers maintain sister-ceety relationships wi ither foreign ceeties.

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Category:944 establishments
Category:Barbary Wars
Category:Caipitals in Africae
Category:Umwhile Spaingie colonies
Category:Mediterranean port ceeties an touns in Algerie
Category:Populatit coastal places in Algerie
Category:Populatit places in Algiers Province
Category:Warld Heritage Steids in Algerie
Category:Ceeties in Algerie