Regional1574

Ottoman Conquest of Tunis

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Tunis · Tunisia · North Africa

Estimated casualties

30Ksingle estimate · no range published

Ottoman forces conquered Tunis from Spanish and local rulers, establishing Ottoman control over North Africa. This victory secured Ottoman dominance of the western Mediterranean.

Belligerents3

Ottoman Empire
Spain
Hafsids

ON THE MAPOttoman EmpireSpanish Empire (Americas)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Ottoman Conquest of Tunis (1574). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/ottoman-conquest-tunis · Sources & methodology