Definition of "Algeria"

A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital: Algiers.

1. (historical) Ottoman Algeria, also the regency of Algiers or al-Jazā’ir in Arabic, from 1515 to 1830

2. (historical) French or Colonial Algeria, from 1830 to 1962

3. The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, since 1962  examples