ancient algeria has known only a couple empires and dynasties
these fatimids went on to found a long lasting dynasty stretching across the maghreb hejaz and the levant boasting a secular inner government as well as a powerful army and navy made up primarily of arabs and levantines extending from algeria to their capital state of cairo
 algiers lost between 30000 and 50000 inhabitants to the plague in 162021 and had high fatalities in 165457 1665 1691 and 174042