In a country full of violent contrasts none could be greater than that between the Mediterranean littoral with its Europeanised cities, beaches and flat, cultivated hinterland, and the almost entirely Muslim-populated wild mountain massifs of the Aurès and Kabylia.

XREF: Sets up the geographic/cultural backdrop relevant to the Algerian struggle, likely central to the book the reader is engaging with.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 144