Europeans were only one-third of Algiers’ 900,000 population yet dominated its cityscape

Evidence

Yet of its total population of 900,000 only one-third was in fact European. In their different enclaves the two communities coexisted closely together — which, in time of peace, was to provide Algiers with its most fascinating contrasts, and, later, its most savagely bloody collisions. … The squalid, labyrinthine alleys often concealed ancient houses built around open courtyards of great charm. Abutting the Casbah on the other side lay the tenements of the European working class of Bab-el-Oued, so heavily impregnated with Spanish blood that its inhabitants were known collectively as the “Hernandez-and-Perez”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 141 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pied noir ultrac organisations crystallized in early 1956 and dominated Algiers for six years; European Algerians numbered only a third of Algiers’ population yet dominated it — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 141; French colonial administration was concentrated in Algiers while vast regions were under-administered

Related

• European Algerians numbered only a third of Algiers’ population yet dominated it (similarity 0.95)
• Oran was the only Algerian city with a European majority population (similarity 0.88)
• French colonial administration was concentrated in Algiers while vast regions were under-administered (similarity 0.84)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.84)
• French settlers never exceeded thirteen percent of Algeria’s population (similarity 0.83)
• By 1917 only one in five Algerian Europeans was of true French descent (similarity 0.82)
• Algeria split between Europeanised coast and Muslim-populated mountain interior (similarity 0.81)
• Most Algerian colons were not ethnically French at all. (similarity 0.81)
• French rule in Algeria steadily degraded its administrators relative to the governed population (similarity 0.81)
• Pieds noirs faced Europe while Muslim Algerians faced inland Africa (similarity 0.80)
• By 1917 only a fifth of Algeria’s non-Muslim settlers were French-born. (similarity 0.80)
• The European settler minority is the central obstacle to ending the Algerian war (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial Algeria contained three distinct peoples speaking different languages (similarity 0.79)
• The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.79)
• The pied noir exodus far outpaced French government predictions (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• European Algerians numbered only a third of Algiers’ population yet dominated it #corroborates (0.95) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 141
• French colonial administration was concentrated in Algiers while vast regions were under-administered #expands (0.60)