Oran was the only Algerian city with a European majority population

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

In a country full of violent contrasts none could be greater than that between the Mediterranean littoral with its Europeanised cities, beaches and flat, cultivated hinterland, and the almost entirely Muslim-populated wild mountain massifs of the Aurès and Kabylia. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 144 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European Algerians numbered only a third of Algiers’ population yet dominated it — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 141; Algeria split between Europeanised coast and Muslim-populated mountain interior — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 144

Related

• European Algerians numbered only a third of Algiers’ population yet dominated it (similarity 0.92)
• Europeans were only one-third of Algiers’ 900,000 population yet dominated its cityscape (similarity 0.88)
• Algeria split between Europeanised coast and Muslim-populated mountain interior (similarity 0.86)
• Pieds noirs faced Europe while Muslim Algerians faced inland Africa (similarity 0.81)
• By 1917 only one in five Algerian Europeans was of true French descent (similarity 0.79)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• European Algerians numbered only a third of Algiers’ population yet dominated it #complicates (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 141
• Algeria split between Europeanised coast and Muslim-populated mountain interior #complicates (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 144