Algiers

Algiers is the capital and largest metropolis of Algeria. In 2011, the metropolis's populace become expected to be round 3,500,000. An estimate puts the populace of the larger metropolitan city to be around 5,000,000. Algiers is placed on the Mediterranean Sea and within the north-significant portion of Algeria. Algiers is located at the west facet of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The present day part of the town is constructed on the level floor by the seashore; the old component, the historical city of the deys, climbs the steep hill at the back of the present day city and is topped with the aid of the casbah or citadel, 122 metres four hundred ft above the ocean. The casbah and the 2 quays form a triangle.

A small Phoenician colony on Algiers's former islands was mounted and taken over by the Carthaginians sometime earlier than the 3rd century bc. After the Punic Wars, the Romans eventually took over administration of the town, which they called Icosium. Its ruins now form a part of the modern city's marine sector, with the Rue de la Marine following a former Roman street. Roman cemeteries existed close to Bab-el-Oued and Bab Azoun. The city became given Latin rights by means of the emperor Vespasian.