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The Regency of Algiers (Arabic: دولة الجزائر, romanized: Dawlat al-Jaza'ir) was a largely independent tributary state of the Ottoman Empire during the early modern period, located on the Barbary Coast of North Africa from 1516 to 1830.
Hace 4 días · The Regency of Algiers was a largely independent tributary state of the Ottoman Empire that existed between 1516 and 1830. Algiers, along with Tunis and Tripoli, were known in Europe as the Barbary States. In Ottoman terminology these areas were called Garb Ocakları (western garrisons). founded by the corsair brothers Aruj and Khayr ad-Din ...
The Regency of Algiers was established by Ottoman Turkish admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa in around 1525 when he captured the city of Algiers which soon became the base from which the Ottoman Empire attacked European shipping in the Mediterranean in acts of piracy.
The regency of Algiers, directed by the exogenous Turkish element of its militia, extended its influence to the west through the play of maraboutic alliances and brotherhoods. However, the advent of the Sharifian dynasties in Fez, with the Saadians in 1550, upset this game of alliances.
Taking the French invasion of Algiers in 1830 as a case in point, this article shows how the Congress system's shared discourses of security and threat perceptions as well as its common practices of concerted diplomacy fostered European imperialism in North Africa.
- Erik De Lange
- 2021
During the sixteenth century, part of the Algerian territory was under Ottoman rule, a geographical area referred to as the Regency of Algiers. The “total conquest” of Algeria.
The political history of the Regency has often been reduced to one of factional struggles within Algiers, between ra’is and ojaq, or ‘pure Turks’ and kuluglis, in which the ‘autochtonous’ population – whether beldi elite or peasant mass – plays no discernible role except to furnish extorted taxes.
