Pied-Noir

E171825

The Pied-Noir were European, mainly French, settlers and their descendants who lived in French North Africa, especially Algeria, until independence led most to relocate to France.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Pied-Noir canonical 2
European settler community in Algeria 1
Pieds-Noirs 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf European diaspora community
ethnic group
associatedWithOrganization Organisation armée secrète
causeOfExodus Algerian independence
end of French rule in Algeria
citizenship French nationality
colonialPower France
countryOfOrigin France
culturalIdentity Mediterranean French culture
colonial settler identity
demographicRole European settler population in French Algeria
diasporaCommunity Canada
France
Israel
Spain
ethnicComposition French people
Italian people
Maltese people
Spanish people
etymology literally "black foot" in French
historicalRegion Algeria
Morocco
Tunisia
involvedInConflict Algerian War of Independence
language French
surface form: French language

Pied-Noir dialect of French
mainReligion Roman Catholicism
mainSettlementArea Algiers
Constantine
Oran
massExodus 1962
memoryPolitics important in French debates on colonialism
opposedBy National Liberation Front (FLN)
surface form: Algerian nationalist movement
politicalStatus French citizens in Algeria
politicalTendency generally conservative
strongly pro-French Algeria
populationAfter1962 mainly in France
relocatedTo French Mediterranean coast
Occitanie
surface form: Languedoc-Roussillon

Marseille
Nice
Metropolitan France
surface form: metropolitan France
selfIdentification French from Algeria
termLanguage French
surface form: French language
timePeriod 19th century
20th century
usedIn French Algeria
French North Africa

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Alphonse Juin ethnicGroup Pied-Noir
French Algeria ethnicGroup Pied-Noir
this entity surface form: Pieds-Noirs
May 1958 crisis in Algeria mainParticipants Pied-Noir
this entity surface form: European settler community in Algeria
Marcel Cerdan ethnicGroup Pied-Noir