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Alger

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic الجزائر (el-dzāyir, literally “the islands”) (Standard Arabic الْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir), plural of جَزِيرَة (jazīra, “island”)), referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers.

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c. 750 CEArabic

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