WebEtymology. The name "dinar" is ultimately derived from the Roman denarius. The Arabic word santīm comes from the French "centime", since Algeria was under French occupation from 1830 to 1962.. History. The dinar was introduced on 1 April 1964, replacing the Algerian new franc at par. . Argotic counting system. The masses rarely use the dinar as …

WebThe Algerian Civil War (Arabic: الْحَرْبُ الْأَهْلِيَّةُ الجَزَائِرِيَّةُ, romanized: al-Ḥarb al-ʾAhlīyah al-Jazāʾirīyah) was a civil war in Algeria fought between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups from 26 December 1991 (following a coup negating an Islamist electoral victory) to 8 February 2002.

WebAlgeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in North Africa.Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.It is considered to be a part of the …

WebAlgerian historians and the FLN estimated that nearly eight years of revolution caused 1.5 million Algerian deaths. [23] [106] [107] Some other French and Algerian sources later put the figure at approximately 960,000 dead, while French officials and historians estimated it at around 350,000, [108] [109] but this was regarded by many [ who? ] as an underestimate.

WebThe Algerian People's National Army (Arabic: الجيش الوطني الشعبي الجزائري, romanized: al-Ǧayš al-Waṭanī al-Šaʿbī al-Ǧazāʾirī; French: Armée nationale populaire) is the military force of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria.It is the direct successor of the National Liberation Army (ALN), the armed wing of the nationalist National Liberation Front ...

WebFlag of the Algerian Communist Party: Historical flags Early Islamic period. Flag Date Use Description 698–750 909–1082: Flag of The Umayyad Caliphate and Caliphal Flag of The Fatimid Caliphate: A simple white field. 750–776: Flag of …

WebThe Jordanian dinar (Arabic: دينار أردني; code: JOD; unofficially abbreviated as JD) has been the currency of Jordan since 1950. The dinar is divided into 10 dirhams, 100 qirsh (also called piastres) or 1000 fulus.It is pegged to the US dollar. The Central Bank of Jordan commenced operations in 1964 and became the sole issuer of Jordanian currency, in …

WebAccording to Islamic law, the Islamic dinar is a coin of pure gold weighing 72 grains of average barley. [citation needed] Modern determinations of weight for the "full solidus" weigh 4.44 grams at the time of Heraclius and a "light solidus" equivalent to the weight of the mithqal weighing 4.25 grams.With the silver Dirham being created to the weight ratio of …

WebFrench Algeria (French: Alger to 1839, then Algérie afterwards; unofficially Algérie française, Arabic: الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of French colonisation of Algeria.French rule in the region began in 1830 with the invasion of Algiers and lasted until the end of the Algerian War of Independence in 1962.

WebThe first mention of a "Serbian dinar" dates back to the reign of Stefan Nemanjić in 1214. Until the fall of Despot Stjepan Tomašević in 1459, most of the Serbian rulers minted silver dinar coins. The first Serbian dinars, like many other south-European coins, replicated Venetian grosso, including characters in Latin (the word 'Dux' replaced with the word 'Rex').