Algeria • اَلْجَزَائِ (al-Jazā'ir) • ⵍⵥⴰⵉⴻⵔ (Ldzayer) • Algérie

03.07.1962: independence: State of Algeria • دولة الجزائرية (ad-Dawlâ al-Jazā'irīyâ) • État Algérien
23.09.1962: People's Democratic Algerian Republic • الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية (al-Jumhūrīyâ al-Jazā'irīyâ ad-Dīmuqrāṭīyâ ash-Sha'bīyâ) • ⵜⴰⴳⴷⵓⴷⴰ ⵜⴰⵎⴻⴳⴷⴰⵢⵜ ⵜⴰⵖⴻⵔⴼⴰⵏⵜ ⵏ ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ (Tagduda tamegdayt tagherfant n Dzayer) • République Démocratique Populaire Algérienne
08.10.1962: member of United Nations

Area: 2,381,740 km²
Population: 32,129,324 (2004)
Capital: الجزائر (al-Jazā'ir, Dzayer, Algiers)
Currency: 1848 فرنك (Algerian franc) = 100 سنتيم (centimes) → 1964 دينار (Algerian dinar, DZD, DA) = 100 سنتيم (santīm)
GDP per capita: 7,200 $ (2005)
Ethnic groups: Arab and Berber 99%
Languages: Arabic (official), Taqbaylit (Kabyle; national), French (auxiliary)

Merchant marine: 52 ships (1000 grt or over), 840,484 grt/880,151 dwt (2004)
Coastline: 998 km (Mediterranean Sea)
Territorial sea: 12 nm
Exclusive fishery zones: 32/52 nm
Exclusive economic zone: not claimed

Military service age and obligation: 19-30 years of age for compulsory military service; 18 months obligation (6 months basic training + 12 months civil projects)
Military expenditures: 3.2 % of GDP (2005)

President & National Defence Minister: Abdelaziz Bouteflika (27.04.1999)
Prime Minister: Ahmed Ouyahia (23.06.2008)
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Major wars & other armed conflicts

1963: short border conflict with Morocco (not involved at sea)

Algerian Naval Forces
القوات البحرية الجزائرية (al-Quwwat al-Baḥrīyâ al-Jazā'irīyâ) • Forces Navales Algériennes
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Commander: 'Amīd Malek Necib (08.2005)
Personnel: 275+2750 (1971), 250+3250 (1974), 300+2700 (1975), 400+3500 (1982), 350+3800 (1984), 6500 (1986;1989), 400+6200 (1992), 500+6000 (1996), 470+6130 incl. 600 marines (1998), 500+7300 (1999;2001), 7500 (2004)
Organisation: three districts, marine infantry (600 p.), four batteries of coastal rocket artillery (П-20/21 = SSC-3 Styx).
Main base: Mers-el-Kébir (Mars al-Kabīr)
Other bases: see map
Foreign bases: France left naval base in Mers el-Kébir in 1968 (although had right to retain it till 1977)

Ensigns

Ranks insignia

1962-1984 (left)
and since 1985 (right):
Map

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Chairman of Provisional Executive (Ra’īs al-Tanfīdhiyya al-Muwaqqata)
07.1962-09.1962 Abderrahmane Faris ('Abd al-Raḥmān Fāris)
Chairman of Constituancy (Ra’īs al-Majlis al-Waţanī ad-Dustūr)
09.1962-08.1963 Ferhat Abbas (Farḥāt Sa'īd 'Abbās)
President (Ra’īs al-Jumhūriyâ):
09.1963-06.1965 Ahmed Ben Bella (Muḥammad Aḥmad Bin Balla)
Chairman of Revolutionary Council (Ra’īs al-Majlis ath-Thawra):
06.1965-12.1976 'Aqīd Houari Boumédiène (Hawwarī Bū-M'dyan)
Presidents:
12.1976-12.1978 Farīq Houari Boumédiène
12.1978-02.1979 Rabeh Bitat (Rābiḥ Biṭāṭ)
02.1979-01.1992 Farīq Chedli Bendjedid (al-Shadhilī Bin Jadīd)
Chairmen of High State Committee (Ra’īs al-Majlis al’A’lā ad-Dawla):
01.1992-07.1992 Mohammed Boudiaf (Muḥammad Bū-Ḍiyāf)
07.1992-01.1994 'Amīd Ali Kafi ('Alī Ḥusayn Kāfī)
Head of State (Ra’īs ad-Dawla):
01.1994-11.1995 'Amīd Liamine Zéroual (al-Amīn Zirwāl)
Presidents:
11.1995-04.1999 Liwā' Liamine Zéroual
04.1999- Abdelaziz Bouteflika ('Abd el-'Azīz Bū-Tiflīqâ)

Prime Ministers:
07.1962-09.1962 Benyoucef Ben Khedda
09.1962-09.1963 Ahmed Ben Bella
09.1963-03.1979 post abolished
03.1979-01.1984 Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani
01.1984-11.1988 Abdelhamid Brahimi
11.1988-09.1989 Kasdi Merbah
09.1989-06.1991 Mouloud Hamrouche
06.1991-07.1992 Sid Ahmed Ghozali
07.1992-08.1993 Bélaïd Abdessalam
08.1993-04.1994 Redha Malek
04.1994-12.1995 Mokdad Sifi
12.1995-12.1998 Ahmed Ouyahia
12.1998-12.1999 Smail Hamdani
12.1999-08.2000 Ahmed Benbitour
08.2000-05.2003 Ali Benflis
05.2003-05.2006 Ahmed Ouyahia
05.2006-06.2008 Abdelaziz Belkhadem
06.2008- Ahmed Ouyahia

Ministers of Defense:
09.1962-06.1965 'Aqīd Houari Boumédiène
06.1965-07.1990 presidents
07.1990-07.1993 Farīq Khaled Nezzar
07.1993-11.1995 'Amīd Liamine Zéroual
11.1995- presidents

(Algerian) National People's Army, Chiefs of Staff:
1963-1967 'Aqīd Tahar Zbiri
1967-1982 post abolished
1982-1986 'Amīd Mostefa Belloucif
1986-11.1988 'Amīd Abdallah Belhouchet
11.1988-07.1990 Farīq Khaled Nezzar
07.1990-07.1993 'Amīd Abdelmalek Guenaïzia
07.1993-08.2004 Liwā' General Mohamed Lamari
08.2004- 'Amīd Mohamed Gaïd Salah

Commanders of Navy:
1962-1978/79'Aqīd Mohammed Benmoussat
1979-11.1984Muqaddam Rachid Benyellès
11.1984-1986'Amīd Mahmoud Chérif
11.1986-11.1988Liwā' Kamel Abderrahim
11.1988-1992'Aqīd Abd el-Majīd Taright
1992-02.2000Liwā' Chaâbane Ghodbane
02.2000-07.2002'Amīd Brahim Dadci
08.2002-08.2005'Amīd Mohand Tahar Yala
08.2005-'Amīd Malek Necib
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