Algiers

Maps on our site:

• 1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae ..., 1122
  
  
• 1575, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis ..., map II-59
  
  
• 1626, Daniel Meisner, Thesaurus Philopoliticus
  
  
• 1740-s, A Plan of the City and Country round about Algiers
  
  
• 1760-s, Antonio Borg, Piani diversi ..., pl. 134
  
  
• 1764, Joseph Roux, Receuil des principaux plans..., pl. 50
  
  
• 1764, Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, Le petit atlas..., v. III, pl. 77
  
  
• 1828, Rottiers & Witdoeck

Founded by Phoenicians; became a Roman town that was ruined by invaders; revived as a Mediterranean commercial center under Zirid dynasty late 10th cen.; held by Spain 1509-1517; was base for Barbary pirates; Allied troop headquarters in World War II.

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