During World War II, after the evacuation of Dunkirk, France had set the capital in Algiers, Algeria, Africa. Let's take a look at the historical geography of Algeria.
Algeria, with an area of about 2.38 million square kilometers, is the largest country in Africa, Algeria has seven land neighbors, in counterclockwise order: Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya, Tunisia.
Located in northwest Africa, the Atlas Mountains are a series of folded fracture mountain regions, co-sourced with the Penivetico Mountains in the south of the Iberian Peninsula. Spanning Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, the Atlas Mountains stretch 2,500 kilometers from east to west, isolating the Sahara Desert from the Mediterranean Sea. Algeria is the middle section of the Atlas Mountains, including the Sahara Atlas Mountains and the Sahara Atlas Mountains.
The Sahara Atlas Mountains, located at the northern tip of the Sahara Desert, are about 950 km long and have a maximum altitude of 2236 m. Mount Taylor Atlas, located on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, is about 1500 km long, and the highest peak, Mount Ulhediji, mount Jujura, is 2308 meters above sea level.
Algeria has a coastline of about 1,200 kilometers, and its population is mainly concentrated on the Mediterranean coast at the northern foot of the Taylor Atlas Mountains, with the capital Algiers located in the middle of the coastline.
In the 3rd century BC, the Berbers established a kingdom on mount Taylor Atlas. Later, Rome, Byzantium, Arabia, Spain, Turkey, and France invaded one after another, and gradually became a French colony after 1830.
In order to increase the population, France almost kidnapped some people who wanted to immigrate to the Americas to Algeria. At the same time, preferential treatment is given to immigrants in terms of land, loans, etc., regardless of whether the nationality is French or not. At that time, Europeans immigrated to the Americas, and the risk of drifting across the Atlantic Ocean was too great, so it was better to go to Algeria on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and return to their hometown.
Tu-Algiers International Airport
In the following decades, Europeans immigrated to Algeria in large numbers, and the water, farmland and pasture in this area were mostly controlled by Europeans, and the contradictions between the foreign population and the local indigenous people were prominent, but the contradictions were temporarily alleviated by World War II.
During World War II, Germany occupied northern France, and southern France surrendered, known as Vichy France. Hundreds of thousands of other French troops fled to England to form Free France under de Gaulle's leadership, a court in exile in England, which basically looked at the British eyes and acted. At that time, most of the countries in the world recognized Vichy France, but did not recognize Free France.
In 1942, when the Allies conquered Algiers, which was guarded by Vichy France, de Gaulle immediately declared Algiers the capital of Free France, and finally flew out of the birdcage on the island of Great Britain. So there was a strange phenomenon, the Gallic rooster France actually built its capital in Algiers, Africa. Although France is not a large country, fortunately, the colony is vast, and it has enough land to build a capital. This is unimaginable in a country like ours, because we can withdraw from Nanjing to Chongqing, and if necessary, we can continue to retreat to Kunming, or even to Lhasa or Urumqi.
At the french's behest, the Allied headquarters in North Africa were also based in Algiers. The French garrison was heavily armed in Algiers, responsible for waving the flag and leaving the Hard Battle of the Normandy landings to Britain and the United States. At this time, the closest enemy to free France was Italy, and as a result Italy surrendered less than a year later, and free France sang triumphant songs.
Figure - Algerian
In 1944, the Allies recaptured Paris, de Gaulle led his troops home without bloodshed, and the French Republic was set to paris.