The corner of Vallette & Homer Streets in Algiers, New Orleans. Thaai Manasu Movie Song Free Download more. Country State City Police District District 4, Algiers Elevation 0 ft (0.0 m) Coordinates: Area 0.62 sq mi (1.6 km 2) - land 0.62 sq mi (2 km 2) - water 0. Grundig Sonoclock 410 Manual Dexterity here. 00 sq mi (0 km 2), 0% Population 50,995 ( 2010) Density 82,250/sq mi (31,757/km 2) Founded 1719 Timezone () - summer (DST) () Area code Algiers is the second oldest neighborhood in and the only Orleans Parish community located on the West Bank of the. Algiers is also known as the 15th Ward, one of the 17. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ], Sieur de Bienville, was granted a large tract of land on the west bank of the river opposite New Orleans in 1719. This date is sometimes given as the year of the town's founding, making it one of the oldest neighborhoods in what is now New Orleans, but development as a town as opposed to a private did not actually occur until about 1800.

The name is believed to have come from the proximity to the city as compared to and. Another theory is that a soldier returning from fighting in Algeria decided it looked just like that country when viewed from a ship. Others claim some connection to Arabs or Egypt and Algeria and Tunisia in the far past for the area. Some Arab groups were and are related not only to North Africa and Moors, but also to Asia as well as India. Columbus reported flags on ships of other powers on some of his travels to the Americas. Towns in the South named Egypt or Little Egypt or Tunica are real. It is possible, even likely, that some of this tradition is real.