Multiple Choice City Quiz – Algiers - Statistics

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What famous French writer studied philosophy at university in Algiers? Albert Camus
78%
What writer was captured by pirates in 1575 and held captive in Algiers for five years? Miguel de Cervantes
73%
The settlement is thought to date back to 1200 BC, when it was inhabited by what people? Phoenicians
68%
What nation was the city part of until 1830? Ottoman Empire
56%
In what year did the Battle of Algiers begin, pitting natives against their French occupiers? 1956
49%
By the 17th century, up to 40% of the city's 100,000 inhabitants were: Enslaved Europeans
49%
In what year was the coup d'état by the army against the victorious political party, a coup aimed at preventing the formation of an Islamist state, and which sparked the civil war? 1992
46%
The city's name, al-Jazāʾir (الجزائر) in Arabic, means what? The islands
34%
The original settlement, Icosium, was part of what nation at the time of Emperor Claudius (41 AD)? Mauretania
27%
Who ruled the city from 435–534? The Vandals
20%
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