Algerine

Algerine

Algerine can refer to:

*a synynom of Algerian, meaning:
**an adjective referring to the city and former -mainly Ottoman, later autonomous- province of Algiers or the modern state of Algeria, in the North African Maghreb region
**an inhabitant of the same places
*Algerine class minesweeper


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