Emirate of Abdelkader
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Was an independent polity in founded by Abd al-Qadir al-Jazairi with the allegiance of the people of Algeria to resist the French conquest of Algeria with its first capital at Mascara.
Establishment
November 1832: It is an independent state formed on the central and western parts of Algeria during the conquest of Algeria by France.
December 1832: Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine was recognized in November as Emir of the Arabs by the tribes of the Mascara region.
Chronology
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Was the French conquest of Algeria. It begun with the French sizing Algiers and other coastal territories of Algeria in 1830. Due to the Algerian resistance, France had slowly to conquer the interior of Algeria over the next 100 years.
December 1835: French attack launched against Mascara, the capital of the Emirate of Abdelkader (November-December 1835).
January 1836: After holding the city for a short-time, French forces left Mascara.
May 1837: After French imperial forces sustained heavy losses and military reversals in Algeria, the French signed with Abdelkader the Treaty of Tafna in May 1837. The treaty gave the Emir the provinces of Oran, Titteri and part of the province of Algiers.
January 1838: In 1837, the Emir Abdelkader took control of a territory in the province of Oran, Algeria, extending from the Chelif River to Morocco. Abdelkader was a prominent Algerian leader who led a resistance movement against French colonization in the 19th century.
December 1840: Expansion of French Algeria by 1840.
January 1841: Cherchell and Miliana occupied by French forces.
September 1842: French forces occupy the region of the Tell tribes.
January 1844: In 1841, France sent reinforcements to Algeria led by General Jean-René Sillègue, then stationed in Marseille. The general pacified the regions of Sétif and Kabylie.
December 1847: Abdelkader surrenders to the Duke of Aumale and his Emirate was reintegrated into French Algeria.
1.1.Creation of the Emirate of Abdelkader
The Emirate of Abdelkader was established by Abd al-Qadir al-Jazairi with the allegiance of the people of Algeria to resist the French conquest of Algeria.
Disestablishment
December 1847: Abdelkader surrenders to the Duke of Aumale and his Emirate was reintegrated into French Algeria.
Selected Sources
Blet, H. (1946): Histoire de la colonisation française : Les étapes d'une renaissance coloniale, 1789-1870, 2, Paris (France), p. 136-137
Pollacchi, C. P. (1930): Les progrès de la pacification française, Collection du Comité Métropolitain du Centenaire de l'Algérie
Yacono, X. (1993): Histoire de l'Algérie de la fin de la Régence turque à l'insurrection de 1954, Paris (France), p. 262
