Flag Of French Algeria
Colonial flags with a tricolour canton.
Flag of french algeria. Nominal algeria was part of france until its conquest by the ottoman empire and carried the flag. 1794 1814 national flag of the first republic and in the first french empire. علم الجزائر romanized. The national flag of algeria arabic.
Since the conquest of france was used in algeria the flags of france. In 1830 even with the. Most of the population resides along the mediterranean coast while the sahara and its extreme climate dominate the country. الجزائر المستعمرة also known as colonial algeria was the colonial rule of france over algeria french rule in the region began in 1830 with the invasion of algiers and lasted until the algerian war of independence concluded in 1962.
Unofficially algérie française arabic. In the 1950s the national liberation front and the national liberation army gave support to that flag finally raised over an independent algeria on july 3 1962. A vertical tricolour of red white and blue proportions 3 2. Acenyal n dzayer consists of two equal vertical bars green and white charged in the center with a red star and crescent a symbol of islam as the nation s prominent faith.
Flag date use description 1790 1794 national flag at the end of the kingdom of france and the beginning of the french first republic. A documentary made by the algerian tv a few years ago says that the algerian flag appeared for the first time on 26 june 1926 as the flag of the étoile nord africaine. The head of a berber on a red background. The flag has been used since 1962 when algeria gained its independence and it has been inspired by the flag of national liberation front.
ʿalam al jazāʾir berber languages. It is known that abdelkader s grandson khaled and the algerian nationalist leader ahmed messali hadj used the green and white flag in the 1920s as a rallying point for those opposed to french rule. The flag of algeria consists of two stripes of equal width that have green and white color. Alger to 1839 then algérie afterwards.
Naval sources show flags such as those used in the french. The flag was adopted on 3 july 1962. Algeria french national flag france flag of french polynesia pate bestof flag of algeria algeria protests in paris french algeria napoleon s world french algeria napoleon s world alternative fandomfrench colonial empire france west ins algerian war flagalgeria independence war 1954 1962algeria png images pngeggfrench algeria france colonial empire map flagflag of algeria french nationalfrench. Algeria large predominantly muslim country of north africa.
Although an integral part of the maghreb and the larger arab world algeria also has a sizable amazigh berber population. The flag was retroceded to algeria in 1970 by jacques chevallier mayor of algiers during the french rule during an official visit to algiers. In addition they took algerian ships in the 18th and 19th century sometimes called barbarian flag.