Ottoman Algeria
| Eyalet-i Cezayir-i Garb ایالت جزاير غرب |
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| Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire | |||||
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![Location of Algiers, Province of[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Algiers_Eyalet,_Ottoman_Empire_(1609).png) |
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| Capital | Algiers | ||||
| Government | Beylerbeylik (1518-1590) then Eyalet (1590-1830) of the Ottoman Empire | ||||
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| • | 1517-1518 | Oruç Reis | |||
| • | 1818-1830 | Hussein Dey | |||
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| • | Established | c. 1517 | |||
| • | Invasion of Algiers in 1830 | 1830 | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1808 | 3,000,000 | |||
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 Algeria
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![Flag of Algiers, Province of[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fictitious_Ottoman_flag_2.svg)
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Ottoman Algeria, formally the Regency of Algiers, was an Ottoman territory centered on Algiers, eventually covering all coastal lands of modern Algeria. It was established in 1525 when Hayreddin Barbarossa captured the city. The Regency of Algiers was the principal center of Ottoman power in the Maghreb. It was also a base from which attacks were made on European shipping. It rivaled and displaced the Zianids, the Hafsids and the Spanish possessions in northern Africa, and was a major hub of Mediterranean piracy and slave markets, until the French conquest of Algeria in 1830.
From 1496, the Spanish conquered numerous possessions on the North African coast, which had been captured since 1496: Melilla (1496), Mers-el-Kebir (1505), Oran (1509), Bougie (1510), Tripoli (1510), Algiers, Shershell, Dellys, and Tenes.
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