Regency of Algiers: Difference between revisions

[[File:'Profile of a Barbary Pirate, Traditionally Identified as Barbarossa' by Pietro della Vecchia.jpg|thumb|'Profile of a Barbary Pirate, Traditionally Identified as Barbarossa' by Pietro della Vecchia|alt='Profile of a Barbary Pirate, Traditionally Identified as Barbarossa' by [[Pietro della Vecchia]]]] At the end of the [[Reconquista]] about 100,00 Moriscos arrived in NorthMelilla and AfricaFez under King [[Muhammad XII of Granada|Boabdil]] [[Granada War|in 1492]],. and theThe [[Spanish Empire]] took several ports on the North African coast and established walled and garrisoned [[strongpoint]]s they called [[Presidio|''presidios'']] along the North African coastthere.{{sfn|Julien|1970|pp=275-276}} The Spanish [[Spanish conquest of Oran (1509)|took Oran]] in 1509, then [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] in 1510.{{sfn|Pitcher|1972|p=107}} Theyand made [[Hafsid dynasty|Hafsid Tunis]] a [[vassal state]].{{sfn|Al-Madani|1965|pp=64–71}} The Spanish then controlled caravan [[trade routes]] from western Sudan, Tripoli and Tunis in the east and [[Ceuta]] and [[Melilla]] in the west, thatwhich passed through Béjaïa, Algiers, Oran and Tlemcen. Control over this gold and [[Slavery|slave trade]] fed the Spanish treasury.{{Sfn|Liang|2011|p=142}}

[[Barbary pirates|Ottoman corsair]] brothers [[Aruj Barbarossa|Aruj]] and [[Hayreddin Barbarossa]] came to North Africa whenat the request of the citizens of Béjaïa, who asked for help after Spain took the city in 1512,{{sfn|Salhi|2019|p=112}} then those of [[Jijel]] offered to make Aruj king after corsairs appeared there with a load of wheat in a time of famine.{{sfn|Wolf|1979|p=8}} Answering pleas for help from its inhabitants, the brothers were able to [[Capture of Algiers (1516)|take Algiers]] in 1516,{{sfn|Gaïd|2014|p=39}}{{sfn|Kaddache|2003|p=8}} execute its [[emir]], [[Salim al-Thumi|Salim Al-Tumi]],{{Sfn|Garcés|2002|pp=21-22}} and repel a Spanish attack led by Diego de Vera.{{sfn|Abun Nasr|1987|p=149}}{{Sfn|Hess|2011|p=64}} Aruj continued his conquests in central Algeria,{{sfn|Spencer|1976|pages=21–22}} but was [[Fall of Tlemcen (1518)|killed in Tlemcen]] in 1518.{{Sfn|Hess|2011|p=65}}{{sfn|Spencer|1976|pages=22–23}}