The Capture of Algiers in 1516 was accomplished by the Ottoman brothers Aruj and Kheireddin Barbarossa against Sālim al-Tūmī, the ruler of the city of Algiers.
Background
In 1510, the Spaniards had established themselves on a small island in front of Algiers, and forced the local ruler Sālim al-Tūmī (Selim-bin-Teumi) to accept their presence through a treaty and pay tribute.[1][2] Fortifications were built on the islet, and a garrison of 200 men was established.[2] Sālim al-Tūmī had to go to Spain to take an oath of obedience to Ferdinand of Aragon.[2]
Capture of Algiers
In 1516, the amir of Algiers, Sālim al-Tūmī, invited the corsair brothers Aruj and Kheireddin to expel the Spaniards. Aruj, with the help of Ottoman troops,[1] came to Algiers with his ally Ahmad al-Kadi of the Kingdom of Kuku and an army composed of 800 Turks and 5,000 Kabyle auxiliaries,[3][4] ordered the assassination of Sālim, because Salim was conspiring with the Spaniards against the pirates and Arudj.[5] The Moors have done a huge triumph to Arudj.[6]
He then seized the town. Spanish expeditions were sent to take over the city, first in 1516 under Don Diego de Vera, and then in 1519 under Don Ugo de Moncada, but both expeditions ended in failure.[2]
Kheireddin succeeded Aruj after the latter was killed in battle against the Spaniards at the Fall of Tlemcen (1518), as well as inheriting his nickname "Barbarossa". The capture of Algiers in 1516 had been made possible with the support of the Ottoman SultanSelim I. This support was discontinued with Sultan Selim's death in 1520, causing Barbarossa to lose the city to a local kabyle chieftain in 1524,[2] and to retreat to his fief of Djidjelli.[7]
References
^ abInternational Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa Trudy Ring p.54 [1]
^ abcdeE.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936 by Martijn Theodoor Houtsma p.258 [2]
^Gürkan, Emrah Safa. "Ottoman Corsairs in The Western Mediterranean and their Place in The Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry (1505-1535)." PhD diss., Bilkent Universitesi (Turkey), 2005.
^BIBESCO, Nicolas. "LES KABYLES DU DJURDJURA: IV. LA GRANDE-KABYLIE AU TEMPS DE LA RÉGENCE D'ALGER.—IMPORTANCE DE LA NATIONALITÉ KABYLE." Revue des Deux Mondes (1829-1971) 62, no. 1 (1866): 113-149. p.115.
^Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L’Algérie, cœur du Maghreb classique. Paris: La Découverte. p. 313. ISBN9782707152312.
^Kaddache, Mahfoud (1992). L'Algérie durant la période ottomane. Alger: Alger : O.P.U. p. 8.
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