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|continent = Africa |
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|status = Regency |
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|year_start = 1515 |
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|year_end = 1830 |
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|image_map = Carte du gouverrnement d alger 1835.jpg |
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|image_map_caption = Map of the Regency of Algiers in 1835. |
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|title_leader = ], ] |
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The '''Regency of Algiers''' was an Ottoman territory centered on ], in modern ]. It was established in 1525, when ] re-captured the city.<ref name="Abun-Nasr 151"></ref> It roughly covered the area of modern ], between the states of ] and ].<ref name="Abun-Nasr 152"></ref> It rivaled and displaced the ], the ] and the Spanish possessions in northern Africa, and became a major hub of Mediterranean ], until the ] in 1830. |
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==Establishment== |
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] was the founder of the Regency of Algiers.]] |
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The Regency of Algiers was the principal center of ] power in the ].<ref name="Abun-Nasr 151"/> It was also a base from which attacks were made on European shipping.<ref name="Abun-Nasr 151"/> |
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===Base in the war against Spain=== |
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Hayreddin Barbarossa established the military basis of the regency. The Ottomans provided a supporting garisson of 2,000 Turkish troops with artilley.<ref name="Naylorp 117"></ref> He left ] in command as his deputy when he had to leave for Istanbul in 1533.<ref name="Abun-Nasr 151"/> |
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The son of Barbarossa, ] was the first governor of the Regency to be directly appointed by the Ottoman Empire in 1544, when his father retired, and took the title of '']''.<ref name="Abun-Nasr 151"/> |
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''Beylerbeys'' continued to be nominated for unlimited tenures until 1587, when the Ottoman Empire set up a regular Ottoman administration in Algiers and its dependencies, headed by '']'', with 3 year terms. This was a way o considate Ottoman power in the Maghreb, after Spain had sent an embassy to Istanbul in 1578 to negotiate a truce, leading to a formal peace in August 1580. From that point the Regency of Algiers was a formal Ottoman territory, rather than just a military base in the war against Spain.<ref name="Abun-Nasr 151"/> |
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===Mediterranean piracy=== |
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] in 1682, by ].]] |
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] of a naval battle between a Turkish ship from Alger and a ship of the ] under ], 1719.]] |
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]) in Algiers in 1662.]] |
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Despite the end of formal hostilities with Spain, attacks on Christian, and especially Catholic shipping, with ], became prevalent in Algiers, and was actually the main activity and source of revenues of the Regency.<ref name="Bosworth 24"></ref> |
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In the early 16th century, Algiers also became with other North African harbours such as ], one of the bases for ], with as many ass 8,000 ] operating from the city in 1634:<ref></ref><ref name="Bosworth 24"/> |
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A contemporary letter states: |
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{{quote|"The infinity of goods, merchandise jewels and treasure taken by our English pirates daily from Christians and carried to Allarach, ] and ] to the great enriching of Mores and Turks and impoverishing of Christians"|Contemporary letter sent from Portugal to England.<ref name="Harris">''Sick economies: drama, mercantilism, and disease in Shakespeare's England'' Jonathan Gil Harris p.152''ff'' </ref>}} |
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Piracy and slavery of Christians originating from Algiers were a major problem throughout the centuries, leading to regular punitive expeditions by European powers. Spain (1567, 1775, 1783), Danemark (1770), France (1661, 1665, 1682, 1683, 1688), England (1622, 1655, 1672), all led naval bombardments against Algiers.<ref name="Bosworth 24"/> ] fought the ] in 1681 and bombarded ] between 1682 and 1683, to help Christian captives.<ref></ref> |
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===Barbary Wars=== |
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] in 1816, by ].]] |
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During the early 19th century, the Regency of Algiers again resorted to widespread ] against shipping from Europe and the young ], mainly due to internal fiscal difficulties.<ref name="Bosworth 24"/> This in turn led to the ], which culminated in August 1816 when ] executed a naval ]. |
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==French invasion== |
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As of 1808, the population of the Regency of Algiers numbered around 3 million people, of whom 10,000 were Turks, and 5,000 ]s (from ''kul oġlu'', "son of ]", i.e. ] of Turks and local women).<ref></ref> |
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During the ], the Regency of Algiers had greatly benefited from trade in the Mediterranean, and of the massive imports of food by France, largely bought on credit by France. In 1827, ], Algeria's Ottoman ruler, demanded that the French pay a 31-year old debt, contracted in 1799 by purchasing supplies to feed the soldiers of the ]. |
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The French consul ] refused to give answers satisfactory to the dey, and in an outburst of anger, Hussein Dey touched the consul with his fan. Charles X used this as an excuse to break diplomatic relations. The regency of Algiers would end with the ] in 1830, and French rule last for the next 132 years.<ref name="Bosworth 24"/> |
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==See also== |
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* ] |
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==Notes== |
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