Wednesday 20 January 2016

By Amalia Collins


Since the 5th century B.C., the indigenous tribes of northern Africa (identified by the Romans as "Berbers") have been pushed back from the coast by successive waves of Phoenician, Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, Arab, Turkish, and, finally, French invaders. The greatest cultural impact came from the Arab invasions of the 8th and 11th centuries A.D., which brought Islam and the Arabic language. The effects of the most recent (French) occupation-French language and European-inspired socialism-are still pervasive.

Algeria became a colony of France shortly after French military forces invaded the country in 1830 and, for most of the succeeding 130 years, it was a fully-fledged department of the French Republic. During this period significant numbers of people emigrated from France to live in Algeria's cities; in some cases they actually outnumbered the locals and became the majority.

The Algerian flag consists of two equal parts; the left side with a green shade and a white shade on the right. The center of the flag displays red star inside a red crescent. The color green signifies the nature's beauty; the color white, peace; the color red, the blood of those who were killed fighting for freedom; and the star and crescent moon represents Islam faith.

The Algerian flag was adopted on July 3, 1962. The same design of the flag was also used when the government was in exile from 1958 to 1962. The only difference between the flag today and the flag back on Algeria's exile days were the white part of the flag is evidently bigger than the green one. The flag design was inspired by the standard of Emir Abdel Kadir in the 1900s.

The flag that was used from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century was moreover the inspiration of the present pennant of Algeria. The recorded background of the standard is still not clear to people since it was educated that the making of the flag was in 1928 by Messali Hadj. He was a loyalist of his nation. The white, green and red, with the star and the crescent, have been used by all countries with Islam faith.

The banner of Algeria can be recognized close by alternate banners on account of the fresh green that it involves. Despite the fact that it has a crescent moon and the red star that implies the religion of Islam, which is broadly used by the nations with the said confidence, the just as proportioned green band on the left half of the banner and the shading white on the right half of the banner are the deciding component for the banner. Flag Company Inc decided to assist with the history development by providing special decals and banners to make it easy to build a bit of university right at home.




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