Popular Support and Its Role in Preserving Algeria’s Territorial Unity Insights from Algerian and French Archival Sources (1956–1962)

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  • Chahrazed Hami . Hassina Hemamid

Keywords:

National Liberation Front – territorial unity – popular support – mass demonstrations – Algerian and French archives

Abstract

This article examines the role of support from Algeria’s popular masses in consolidating theprinciple of territorial unity during the War of Liberation (1956–1962), in the face of French colonialprojects aimed at partitioning the country most notably by separating the Sahara. The study highlightshow the National Liberation Front and the Provisional Government wagered on popular mobilization and mass demonstrations as a political and militant instrument to thwart these schemes.

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2025-08-07

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Chahrazed Hami . Hassina Hemamid. (2025). Popular Support and Its Role in Preserving Algeria’s Territorial Unity Insights from Algerian and French Archival Sources (1956–1962). Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 15(4), 4753–4767. Retrieved from https://www.pegegog.net/index.php/pegegog/article/view/4730

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Vol. 15 No. 4 (2025): EARLY VIEW

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