What is the old name of Algeria?
Etymology. The country’s name derives from the city of Algiers which in turn derives from the Arabic al-Jazāʾir (الجزائر, “The Islands”), a truncated form of the older Jazāʾir Banī Mazghanna (جزائر بني مزغنة, “Islands of the Mazghanna Tribe”), employed by medieval geographers such as al-Idrisi. Who founded Algeria? Painting of Khair ad Din, also known…