Regional1500 – 1700 · 200 years

Spanish Expansion in North Africa

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

North Africa · Ceuta · Melilla · Morocco

Estimated casualties

200Ksingle estimate · no range published

Spanish forces conquered several North African coastal enclaves and fought Ottoman and Moroccan forces for regional dominance. Spanish control remained limited to small coastal areas.

Belligerents3

Spain
Ottoman Empire
Morocco

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)Ottoman Empire

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 5

Battle of Mers el Kebir1505
Battle of Bougie1510
Battle of Los Gelves1510
Battle of Tripoli, Libya1510
Battle of Algiers1511

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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