French North Africa (French: Afrique du Nord française, sometimes abbreviated to ANF) is a term often applied to the three territories that were controlled by France in the North African …

Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. Torch was a compromise operation that met the British objective of …

2025年1月25日 · The French capture of Algiers in 1830, followed by the Ottoman reoccupation of Tripoli in 1835, rudely interrupted the attempts of North Africa’s rulers to follow the example of …

French Africa includes all the historic holdings of France on the African continent.

2016年2月25日 · In North Africa, Tunisian and Moroccan nationalists were able to force the French to negotiate independence in the 1950s, but decolonization in Algeria, with its million …

2020年3月19日 · French North Africa : the Maghrib between two world wars. Originally published as Le Maghreb entre deux guerres. Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1962.

2023年7月16日 · France had a significant presence in Africa during the colonial period, with colonies scattered all over West, East, Central and Northern Africa. These colonies gained …

French North Africa consisted of three separate territories: the protectorates of Morocco in the west, Tunisia in the east, and between the two, Algeria, which France had divided into several …

French North Africa was a collection of territories in North Africa controlled by France and centering on French Algeria. At its height, it was a large part of the Maghreb.

This article highlights some of the links between France's actions in post-war North Africa, its changing strategic priorities in Europe, and French ambivalence about creeping American …