Algeria is a Northern African country with a Mediterranean coast and Saharan desert innards. Many empires have left legacies here. During the Middle Periods, Algeria was led by different tribes and Berber dynasties. In the 1500s, the Spanish Empire arrived and took over several metropolises. The Ottoman Empire interposed and soon Algeria came as part of the Ottoman Empire. In the 1800s the French raided Algeria. North African boundaries have shifted during different stages of vanquishing. The borders of ultramodern Algeria were expanded by the French, whose colonization began in 1830. To serve French settlers north Algeria was ultimately organized into overseas departments of France, with representatives in the French National Assembly. France controlled the entire country, but the traditional Muslim population in the pastoral areas remained promised from the ultramodern profitable structure of the European community. Finely, Algeria got independence on 5 July 1962 after a long movement and struggle from France.