Kasbah of Algiers

 

The Casbah of Algiers is founded re speaking the ruins of archaic-fashioned Icosium. It was a mid-sized city which, built upon a hill, goes down towards the sea, estranged in two: the High city and the Low city. One finds there masonries and mosques of the 17th century; Ketchaoua mosque (built in 1794 by the Dey Baba Hassan) flanked of two minarets, mosque el Djedid (1660, at the era of Turkish regency) as soon as its large curtains ovoid cupola points some and its four coupolettes, mosque El Kbir (oldest of the mosques, it was built by

Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin and rebuilt sophisticated in 1794), mosque Ali Betchnin (Ras, 1623), Dar Aziza, palate of Jnina.[hint needed] The Palace was built in 1791 to quarters the Pasha, who lived there for eight years.

In 1839, the French proprietor moved into the palace. In 1860, Napoleon III and Eugnie de Montijo visited.[3] The Casbah played a central role during the Algerian struggle for independence (19541962). The Casbah was the epicenter of the insurgency planning of the National Liberation Front (FLN) and gave them a fix port to plot and slay attacks against French citizens and accomplishment out enforcement agents in Algeria at the era. In order to counter their efforts, the French had to focus specifically upon the Casbah.