Algiers Hotels

Algiers is the capital and biggest town of Algeria, and the second largest town in the Maghreb. According to the 1998 census, the population of the town proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban merger was 2,135,630. A UN guesstimate of the urban merger ( metropolitan area ) puts the population at 3,354,000 as of 2007. Called El-Bahdja ( 1575;1604;1576;1607;1580;1577 ; ) or or Alger la Blanche ( “Algiers the White” ) for the glittering white of its buildings as seen climbing up from the sea, Algiers is to be found on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The town name springs from the Arabic word 1575;1604;1580;1586;1575;1574;1585 ; al-jaz257;’ir, which interprets as the islands, talking about the 4 islands which lay off the city’s coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525. Al-jaz257;’ir is itself a shortened kind of the city’s older name 1580;1586;1575;1574;1585 ; 1576;1606;1610 ; 1605;1575;1586;1594;1575;1606 ; jaz257;’ir ban299 ; mazghann257 [*SCO], “the islands of ( the clan ) Bani Mazghanna”, employed by early medieval geographers like al-Idrisi and Yaqut al-Hamawi.

Algiers is the sole Algerian town with a British name different from its French name. The modern part of the town is constructed on the level ground by the seashore ; the old part, the traditional city of the deys, climbs the steep hill behind the modern city and is crowned by the casbah or citadel, four hundred feet ( 122 m ) above the ocean.

The casbah and the 2 quays form a triangle.