Located in northern Africa, on the western side of the Gulf of Algiers on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, Algeria is a must for many major transit forts. Therefore, in history, it has been ruled by Many powerful empires such as Byzantium, Arabia, and The Ottomans. As a result of domestic piracy and the enslavement of Christians, the newly established United States fought two naval battles with it.
In modern times, Algeria has become the mouth of the Western powers, Spain, Portugal, France and other countries have invaded, in 1830, France sent an expeditionary force to invade Algeria, the local rulers have little resistance, the capital Ofalgiers city handed over to the French.
But the Algerian masses of the people have always insisted on resisting, and this war of aggression and counter-aggression has lasted for twenty years, france has not completely occupied it, it has been made miserable, and for half a century the local population has still stubbornly and vigorously resisted, and France did not basically complete the occupation of all of Algeria until 1905.
On the one hand, Algeria and France are not far away, separated by the Mediterranean Sea, and do not have to travel thousands of miles and long distances like other places. Moreover, Algeria's position is important, and once France occupies Algeria, it means that France's energy security and foreign trade have developed by leaps and bounds.
In addition, the country's oil and gas resources are very rich, and it is also a poor country with a population of tens of millions, which can become a market for France to dump goods and plunder raw materials.
Although rebellions broke out from time to time, France still self-righteously regarded Algeria as part of France and did not consider itself a colony.
Therefore, for more than a hundred years, France has always regarded the war between France and Algeria as a civil war, not an invasion, and this idea is really too self-righteous.
In order to change the ethnic composition of Algeria, France has always adhered to the immigration policy, encouraging its own nationals to move to Algeria to work, and many Algerians go to work in French factories on the other side of the ocean. Before Algeria's independence, millions of white residents lived here.
After World War II, in the face of the surging national independence movement, although France's strength declined, it was still reluctant to give up, so it only made certain concessions and began to reform its colonial policy in the political and economic fields.
But none of this changed the Algerian people's determination to pursue independence, but France first failed in Vietnam, did not succeed here, and finally de Gaulle came to power and ended colonial rule.
But objectively speaking, France has ruled for more than a hundred years, and the two countries have many ties, and the French and French veterans who have migrated to Algeria with their families have a strong Algerian plot. France also has a large number of descendants of Algerian immigrants, and Zidane's parents who led the French football team to win the World Cup are Algerians.