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Algiers (Arabic: الجزائر‎, Algerian Arabic: Dzayer ([zæjer] (From kabyle pronunciation[verification needed]), Kabyle: Ledzayer [ldzæjər], French: Alger [ɑlʒe]) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, and the second largest city in the Maghreb (behind Casablanca). According to the 2005 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570; for the urban area was 2,135,630; for the metropolitan area 3,518,083; and for Algiers Province as a whole 5,723,749 (2006). Thus the urban area of Greater Algiers is one of the largest in North Africa

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  • Lagos,Algiers,Mogadishu
  • This Algerian port's old city is dominated by the Casbah
  • Going clockwise around the Mediterranean, it's the next national capital after Tunis
  • On the road to Morocco from Tunis, I go by this capital city
  • In 1830 the French captured this city, Casbah & all, & made it the military HQ for their colonial empire in N. Africa
  • Al-Jaza'ir isn't a TV network but the Arabic name for this capital city in north Africa
  • 5 years as an unsold slave in this north African capital inspired Cervantes' play "El Trato de Angel"
  • The Muslim section of this north African capital is dominated by the Casbah, a 16th century Turkish fortress
  • Pretoria,Addis Ababa,Algiers
  • In 1815 James Madison had Congress declare war on this Algerian capital city
  • The name of this North African capital city of 2 million comes from the Arabic "al-jaza'ir" or "the island"
  • In 1834 Delacroix painted the lush "Women of" this Algerian city "in Their Apartment"
  • Luanda, Monrovia, Algiers
  • In 1938 Hedy made her American film debut with Charles Boyer in this film bearing the name of an African capital
  • In 1575 Miguel was sold into slavery in this current North African capital on the Mediterranean

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