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The New Student's Reference Work/Algiers

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Algiers (ăl-jeerz’), capital of Algeria, is divided into two parts. The newer portion, along the harbor, is European; the older, on the hillside above, is Arab. It is an important French coaling station on the Mediterranean. Population (1906), 138,240.