Algeria

noun4

1. •
   A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers.
2. •
   The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, since 1962.
3. •
   (historical) Ottoman Algeria, also the regency of Algiers or al-Jazā’ir in Arabic, from 1515 to 1830.

   • Engels welcomed the United States' conquest of territory from Mexico and the French colonization of Algeria: the Bedouin were a race of bandits anyhow. — 1978
4. •
   (historical) French or Colonial Algeria, from 1830 to 1962.