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Algeria Country Quiz
🇩🇿 Can you answer these questions about the country of Algeria?
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| First submitted | August 7, 2019 |
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The indegenous name of Algeria is Dzayer or Dzaîr which comes from the expression ''Da Ziri'' which translates to ''He/She is a moonlight" because of the last name of the founder of the Zirid Dynasty was "Ziri" which means ''Moonlight" in Berber. Therefore, everyone who came from the country ruled by The Zirids was called Da-Ziri or D-Ziri/D-Ziria which is the demonym for today algerians in their vernacular arabic (Darja).
The name Dziri was adapted to the Arabic language becoming Al-Jazaîr which means ''The Islands", this term referred also to the four islets located off the port of Algiers before they were connected to the mainland by the construction of a jetty in 1529 by one of the Barbarossa brothers.
So basically, a Berber name that was arabized to make sens to a certain type of topography.