Algiers

(now Algeria , Northwest Africa). Part of the ancient Mauri tan i a, which was conquered by the Romans, 46 B.C. ; by the Vandals, 439; recovered for the empire by Belisarius, 534, and subdued by the Arabs about 690. The city of Algiers was bombarded a number of times, and finally taken by the French in 1830. Algeria at present belongs to France.