Talk:Algeria

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 9 February 2025

Remove (2024 est.) in the following parameters of the infobox:

  GDP_PPP =  $768.52 billion, 2024 est.)
  GDP_PPP_per_capita =  $16,483 (2024 est.)

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  GDP_PPP =  $768.52 billion
  GDP_PPP_per_capita =  $16,483

as this is redundant with the parameters GDP_PPP_year. Jtruc34 (talk) 23:59, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

 Done ✶Antrotherkus✶^✶talk✶ 18:27, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Largest country

"Since the 2011 breakup of Sudan, and the creation of South Sudan, Algeria has been the largest country in Africa, and the Mediterranean Basin".

It needs rewording, since Sudan hasn't access to Mediterranean Sea and never had had (I looked what Mediterranean Basin means, and it is solely about countries with Mediterranean coastline; otherwise countries like Kenya or Rwanda with Nile coastline would be part of Mediterranean Basin). So, it should be sth like "Since the 2011 breakup of Sudan, and the creation of South Sudan, Algeria has been the largest country in Africa. It is also the largest country of the Mediterranean Basin". (Sorry if I have bad English, it's not my native language) 2A03:D000:4192:EB01:389E:9397:F399:CCDC (talk) 19:45, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 April 2025

The sentence “Most Algerians are Arabs, with Berbers forming a sizeable minority.” is factually incorrect. It should read, “Almost all Algerians are in fact ethnically Berber. From the time of Napoleon III, the French began referring to all Algerian natives as ‘Arabs’. Algerians are still to this day mostly referred to as Arabs in France, and many Algerians still refer to themselves as Arabs. In fact, Berber cultural identity and language was mostly eroded during the French colonial period. Prior to the French colonization, the region was known as Barbary, inhabited predominantly by Moors and Berbers, but also the ancient descendants of Roman colonists, and former European slaves (captured during the Ottoman period). The Arab invasions did not significantly alter the ethnic composition of the population, but did alter the cultural and religious landscape with Islam. There has also been a substantial state sponsored Arabization program (with mixed results) since independence in 1962 to in-still Arab identity. And so, while Algeria is also part of the Arab geo-political sphere (Arab Union, Arab Maghreb Union) it remains ethnically a Berber majority, even though the Berbers are a linguistic minority. Berber culture has managed to survive where the language has survived, that is, in difficult to reach and hard to access regions such as the Aures region, the mountains of Kabylie, Djanet and Tamanrasset in the Sahara. 38.175.134.89 (talk) 05:48, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. jlwoodwa (talk) 07:00, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Algerian Ethnicity

The sentence “Most Algerians are Arabs, with Berbers forming a sizeable minority.” is factually incorrect. It should read, “Almost all Algerians are in fact ethnically Berber (Amazigh). From the time of Napoleon III, the French began referring to all Algerian natives as ‘Arabs’. Algerians are still to this day mostly referred to as Arabs in France, and many Algerians still refer to themselves as Arabs. In fact, Berber (Amazigh) cultural identity and language was mostly eroded during the French colonial period. Prior to the French colonization, the region was known as Barbary, inhabited predominantly by Moors and Berbers, but also the ancient descendants of Roman colonists, and former European slaves (captured during the Ottoman period). The Arab invasions did not significantly alter the ethnic composition of the population, but did alter the cultural and religious landscape with Islam. There has also been a substantial state sponsored Arabization program (with mixed results) since independence in 1962 to in-still Arab identity. And so, while Algeria is also part of the Arab geo-political sphere (Arab Union, Arab Maghreb Union) it remains ethnically a Berber (Amazigh) majority, even though the Berbers are a linguistic minority. Berber (Amazigh) culture has managed to survive where the language has survived, that is, in difficult to reach and hard to access regions such as the Aures region, the mountains of Kabylie, Djanet and Tamanrasset in the Sahara. Primarysourceguy (talk) 05:57, 26 April 2025 (UTC)