Regional1516 – 1520 · 4 years
Ottoman Conquest of Algiers
Algiers · North Africa · Mediterranean
Estimated casualties
50Ksingle estimate · no range published
Ottoman forces took control of Algiers, establishing Ottoman dominance over the Barbary States of North Africa. Algiers became a major Ottoman naval base for the next 300 years.
Belligerents3
- Ottoman Empire
- Spain
- Barbary States
ON THE MAPOttoman EmpireSpanish Empire (Americas)
Sources
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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