Algerian National Navy
| Algerian National Navy القوات البحرية الجزائرية |
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|---|---|
| Active | 1516 – Present |
| Country |
 Algeria
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| Branch | Navy |
| Size | 17000 personnel |
| Garrison/HQ | L'AMIRAUTE, Algiers |
| Anniversaries | February 2, 1967 |
| Equipment | 80 vessels, 30 helicopters, 02 MPA Aircraft |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander |
Mohamed-Larbi Haouli |
| Insignia | |
| Naval Ensign |  |
| Naval Jack |  |
The Algerian National Navy (ANN; Arabic: القوات البحرية الجزائرية) is the naval branch of the Military of Algeria. The navy operates from multiple bases along the country's nearly 1,000 km (620 mi) coastline, fulfilling its primary role of monitoring and defending Algeria's territorial waters against all foreign military or economic intrusion. Additional missions include coast guard and maritime safety missions as well a projection of marine forces (fusillers marins). Algerian forces are an important player in the Western Mediterranean.
As with other Algerian military branches, the navy was built and structured with assistance from the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but has also relied on other sources for equipment in some areas. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has remained an important partner, but Algeria has increasingly sought additional sources for equipment as well as building its own shipbuilding capacity.
The Algerian Navy played an important role in the western Mediterranean between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, where she was a leading military force that ensured not only the defense of the Regency of Algiers but also of international ships making a passage through the Mediterranean, led notably legendary sailors such as Barbarossa brothers or Kheir Edine and Hassan Agha.
The origins of the Algerian Navy (1147 - 1516))
At that time the Maghreb under the control of the Almohad dynasty which also ruled the current Spain "al-Andalus" and 1147 to 1269. The Navy was born with the installation by Abd El Moumen naval shipyards the Almohad empire in the ports of Oran and Honaine. But the reign of this great dynasty would soon be glazed at first by a few internal disagreements, mainly related to the difficulties of managing a vast territory. The situation worsened further when a part of the Iberian peninsula again passed under the control of Christian rulers in the wake of the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, the decomposition of the kingdom accelerated with the formation of three states in North Africa. After the total destruction of the kingdom Almohad in 1269 began a fierce battle between Muslims and Christians for control of various ports in the Western Mediterranean, this has resulted in the occupation by the Spanish in several regions algcomme The Peñon of Algiers, Oran and Bejaia, which led the indigenous peoples of these regions to call on pirates to free the Christian invaders, which was done through sending and Aroudj Hayreddin Barbarossa brothers in 1516, they managed to build a fleet.
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