WI: Mid Nineteenth Century Partition of Algeria?

[Jackson Lennock]

The French came to something of an agreement in the Treaty of Tafna for there to be a kind of Indigenous Arab State in the Algerian interior. What if this had developed into a division of Algeria along something like the following lines, rather than France opting to just conquer and entirely wipe out the indigenous State?


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[Alex Richards]

Tafna restricted the French to a few forts in Oran and the area immediately around Algiers, so this is both highly unsustainable and will require a major French victory to get from that to the borders you're suggesting. That and Abd el-Kader viewed it as a temporary measure while building strength before trying for a full expulsion of European presence.

Whether you can have some sort of protectorate in the interior is a different question, but I suspect that just ends up with it attempting to absorb the colony on indepednence.

 

[Ricardolindo]

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