Algerian Postage Stamp
Algeria is a republic in northwestern Africa, on the Mediterranean coast; pop. 32,100,000; capital, Algiers; official language, Arabic. Algeria was colonized by France in the mid 19th century and was for a time closely integrated with metropolitan France. Following civil war in the 1950s, it achieved independence in 1962. A brief period of multi-party democracy was ended by a military takeover in 1992 after the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front had won the first round of the national elections. This prompted a low-level civil war until 2000 when the Islamic Salvation Army, the armed segment of the Islamic Salvation Front, was dissolved in an effort to achieve national reconciliation.
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