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  • noun a port city of northeastern Algeria near the Tunisian border

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  • Several hundred more also demonstrated in cities around the country and youths clashed with police on Sunday in the eastern city, Annaba.

    Algerian Emergency Law to End 2011

  • Several hundred more also demonstrated in cities around the country and youths clashed with police on Sunday in the eastern city, Annaba.

    Algerian Emergency Law to End 2011

  • President Bouffiaf was killed in Annaba, a fundamentalist stronghold, just days after several FIS leaders were brought before a special security court.

    Murder On The Mediterranean 2008

  • He became bishop of Hippo now Annaba, Algeria in 395, an office he held until his death.

    St Augustine of Hippo de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • He became bishop of Hippo now Annaba, Algeria in 395, an office he held until his death.

    Archive 2008-08-24 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • In his Annaba speech, Boudiaf lamented the lack of trust between the people and their leaders since independence and the role of "clans" and of Islam.

    Murder On The Mediterranean 2008

  • Meanwhile, a court in the eastern town of Annaba sentenced to death

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • When the violence spread to Annaba, Blida, Oran, and other cities and towns, the government declared a state of emergency and began using force to quell the unrest.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2005

  • The identification of greco scritto from Annaba in Algeria is for instance less probable, because of the great distance between Sagalassos and the source of this stone type.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Stone Report 1 2003

  • Then the servant hastened to read all that had been brought in by the iron-mines of Annaba, the coral fisheries, the purple factories, the farming of the tax on the resident Greeks, the export of silver to Arabia, where it had ten times the value of gold, and the captures of vessels, deduction of a tenth being made for the temple of the goddess.

    Salammbo 2003

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