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Regency of Algiers

Coordinates: 36°47′6″N 3°3′45″E / 36.78500°N 3.06250°E / 36.78500; 3.06250
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Regency of Algiers
دولة الجزائر (Arabic)
ایالت جزایر غرب‎‎ (Ottoman Turkish)
1516–1830
Equal-sized thick green layer at bottom and top, equal-sized thin yellow layer below the top and above the bottom, a maroon layer in the middle
Plain maroon field
Left: One type of Algerian Regency flag
Right: Flag of the Ottoman regent of Algiers[nb 1]
Motto: دار الجهاد
Bulwark of the Holy War[3][4]
Coat of arms of Algiers
(1516–1830)

Map of North Africa. The regency of Algiers is colored light brown, at center top, Husaynid Tunisia, maroon, and Tripolitania dark brown. The core territory of the 'Alawid dynasty at center left is dark green, and its outlying territories light green.
Overall extent of the Regency of Algiers, late 17th to early 19th centuries[5]
StatusAutonomous eyalet (Client state) of the Ottoman Empire[6][7]
De facto independent since mid-17th century[8][9][10]
CapitalAlgiers
Official languagesOttoman Turkish and Arabic (since 1671)[11]
Common languagesAlgerian Arabic
Berber
Sabir (used in trade)
Religion
Official, and majority:
Sunni Islam (Maliki and Hanafi)
Minorities:
Ibadi Islam
Shia Islam
Judaism
Christianity
Demonym(s)Algerian or
Algerine (obs.)
GovernmentStratocratic Regency
1516–1519: Sultanate
1519–1659: Pashalik
1659[12] (de facto in 1626)[13]–1830: Military republic
Rulers 
• 1516–1518
Aruj Barbarossa
• 1710–1718
Baba Ali Chaouch
• 1766-1791
Baba Mohammed ben-Osman
• 1818–1830
Hussein Dey
Historical eraEarly modern period
1509
1516
1521–1791
1541
1550–1795
1580–1640
1627
1659
1681–1688
1699–1702
1775–1785
1785–1816
1830
Population
• 1830
3,000,000–5,000,000
CurrencyMajor coins:
mahboub (sultani)
budju
aspre
Minor coins:
saïme
pataque-chique
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Hafsids of Béjaïa
Kingdom of Tlemcen
French Algeria
Beylik of Titteri
Beylik of Constantine
Western Beylik
Emirate of Abdelkader
Igawawen
Kingdom of Beni Abbas
Sultanate of Tuggurt
Awlad Sidi Shaykh
Kingdom of Kuku
Today part ofAlgeria

The Regency of Algiers[a][b] was an early modern semi-independent Ottoman province and nominal vassal state on the Barbary Coast of North Africa from 1516 to 1830.[c] Founded by the privateer brothers Aruj and Hayreddin Reis (also known as the Barbarossa brothers), the Regency succeeded the Kingdom of Tlemcen as an infamous and formidable pirate base that plundered and waged maritime holy war on European Christian powers. Ottoman regents ruled as heads of a stratocracy—an autonomous military government controlled by the janissary corps—known as Garp ocakları (lit.'Western Garrison') in Ottoman terminology.

The Regency emerged in the 16th-century Ottoman–Habsburg wars as a unique corsair state that drew revenue and political power from its maritime strength. In the 17th century, when the wars between the Spanish Habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire, Kingdom of France, Kingdom of England and Dutch Republic ended, Barbary corsairs started capturing merchant ships and their crews and goods from these states. When the Ottomans could not prevent these attacks, European powers negotiated directly with Algiers and also took military action against it. This emancipated Algiers diplomatically and increased its autonomy.

The Regency held significant naval power in the 16th and 17th centuries and well into the end of the Napoleonic wars despite European naval superiority. Its institutionalised privateering dealt substantial damage to European shipping, took captives for ransom, plundered booty, hijacked ships and eventually demanded regular tribute payments. In the rich and bustling city of Algiers, the Barbary slave trade reached an apex. After the janissary coup of 1659, the Regency became a sovereign military republic,[d] and its rulers were thenceforth elected by the council known as the diwan rather than appointed by the Ottoman sultan previously.

Despite wars over territory with Spain and the Maghrebi states in the 18th century, Mediterranean trade and diplomatic relations with European states expanded. Bureaucratisation efforts stabilized the Regency's government, allowing into office regents such as Mohammed ben-Osman, who maintained Algerian prestige thanks to his public and defensive works which increased revenue and fended off attacks on Algiers. British tribute payments no longer insured U.S. shipping traffic in the Mediterranean after the American Revolution, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars provided an opportunity for frequent Algerian privateering. Increased demands for tribute from Algiers started the Barbary Wars at the beginning of the 19th century, when Algiers was decisively defeated for the first time. Internal central authority weakened in Algiers due to political intrigue, failed harvests and the decline of privateering. Violent tribal revolts followed, mainly led by maraboutic orders such as the Darqawis and Tijanis. In 1830, France took advantage of this domestic turmoil to invade. The resulting French conquest of Algeria led to colonial rule until 1962.

Names

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In the historiography of the Regency of Algiers, it has been called the "Kingdom of Algiers",[14] "Republic of Algiers",[15] "State of Algiers",[16] "State of El-Djazair",[17] "Ottoman Regency of Algiers",[16] and "Ottoman Algeria".[18]

The current division of the Maghreb goes back to the three regencies of the 16th century: Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Algiers became the capital of its state and this term in the international acts applied to both the city and the country which it ordered: الجزائر (El-Djazâ'ir). However a distinction was made in the spoken language between on the one hand El-Djazâ'ir, the space which was neither the Extreme Maghreb, nor the regency of Tunis, and on the other hand, the city commonly designated by the contraction دزاير (Dzayer) or in a more classic register الجزائر العاصمة (El-Djazâ'ir El 'âçima, Algiers the Capital).[19]

The Regency, which lasted over three centuries, shaped what Arab geographers designate as جزيرة المغرب (Djazirat El Maghrib). A political and administrative organization participated in the establishment of the Algerian: وطن الجزائر (watan el djazâïr, country of Algiers) and the definition of its borders with its neighbors to the east and west.[20] In European languages, El Djazâïr became Alger, Argel, Algiers, Algeria, etc. In English, a progressive distinction was made between Algiers, the city, and Algeria, the country, whereas in French, Algiers designated both the city and the country, under the forms of "Kingdom of Algiers" or "Republic of Algiers". "Algerians" as a demonym is attested to in writing in French as early as 1613 and its use has been constant since that date. Meanwhile in the English lexicology of that time, Algerian is "Algerine", which referred to the political entity that later became Algeria.[21]

History

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Establishment

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Encouraged by the political disintegration of the Maghrebi Muslim states[22] and fearing an alliance between the Moriscos (exiled Spanish Muslims) and the Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate,[23] the Spanish Empire captured several cities and established walled and garrisoned strongpoints called presidios in North Africa.[24] The Spanish conquered the city of Oran from the Zayyanids, as well as Béjaïa from the Hafsids in 1509, then Tripoli from the Hafsids in 1510, making other coastal cities submit to them, including Algiers, where they built an island fortress known as the Peñón of Algiers.[25] In addition to territorial ambitions and Catholic missionary fervor,[23] the gold and slave trades funded the Spanish treasury, as Spain controlled the caravan trade routes, passing through the central Maghreb.[26]

Barbarossa brothers

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After operating as Hafsid-sponsored privateers from their base in the island of Djerba,[27] Mytilenean-born brothers Aruj and Hayreddin Reis, nicknamed the Barbarossa brothers, came to North Africa at the request of Béjaïa citizens in 1512. They failed to take the city from the Spanish twice,[27] but the citizens of Jijel offered to make Aruj king after his corsairs arrived with a shipload of wheat during a famine.[28] Answering pleas for help from its inhabitants, the brothers captured Algiers in 1516 but failed to destroy the Peñón.[29][30] Aruj executed the Algerian emir, Salim Al-Tumi,[31] then proclaimed himself Sultan of Algiers.[32][33] He also repelled an attack led by the Spanish commander Don Diego de Vera,[34][35] which won him the allegiance of people in the northern part of central Algeria.[36]

In the central Maghreb, Aruj built a powerful Muslim state at the expense of quarreling principalities.[37] He sought the support of the local religious Muslim (maraboutic and Sufi) orders,[38][39] while his absolute authority was backed by his Turkish and Christian renegade corsairs.[40] The latter were European converts to Islam, known in Europe as "turned Turks".[41] "Aruj [Reis] effectively began the powerful greatness of Algiers and the Barbary", wrote Diego de Haedo [fr; es; it], a Spanish Benedictine held captive in Algiers between 1577 and 1580.[37]

Aruj continued his conquests in western central Maghreb. He won the Battle of Oued Djer against Spanish vassal Hamid bin Abid, the prince of Ténès, in June 1517 and took his city.[42] While Aruj was there, a delegation arrived from Tlemcen to complain about the growing Spanish threat, exacerbated by squabbling between the Zayyanid princes over the throne.[28] Abu Hammou III [fr] had seized power in Tlemcen and imprisoned his nephew Abu Zayan III [fr].[43] Aruj and his troops entered Tlemcen in 1518 and released Abu Zayan from prison, restoring him to the throne.[44] Abu Zayan began to conspire against Aruj, who executed him.[45] Meanwhile, the deposed Abu Hammou III fled to Oran to beg the Spaniards to help him retake his throne. The Spaniards chose to do so; they cut Aruj's supply route from Algiers,[46] then began a siege of Tlemcen that lasted six months. Aruj locked himself inside the Mechouar palace for several days to avoid an increasingly hostile populace, who opened the gates for the Spanish in May 1518.[44] Aruj attempted to flee Tlemcen, but the Spaniards pursued and killed him along with his Turkish companions.[46]

Hayreddin inherited his brother's position as sultan without opposition,[37][47] although he faced threats from the Spanish, Zayyanids, Hafsids and neighboring tribes.[46] After repelling another Spanish attack in August 1519, led by the Spanish viceroy of Sicily Hugo of Moncada,[48][49] Hayreddin pledged allegiance to the central Ottoman government known as the Sublime Porte to obtain Ottoman support against his foes.[45] In October 1519, a delegation of Algerian dignitaries and Muslim jurists went to Ottoman sultan Selim I, proposing that Algiers join the Ottoman Empire.[50][51] Constantinople had doubts,[47] but the sultan recognized Hayreddin as pasha[45]—a regent with the title of beylerbey (lit.'Prince of princes')[52][37]—and sent him 2,000 janissaries,[47] who formed a privileged military corps.[53] Algiers officially became an eyalet under Selim's successor Suleiman I in the spring of 1521.[54] From this year onward, the Ottoman sultans appointed Algerian corsair captains as beylerbeys.[55] In European sources, Algiers was called "the Regency".[56] Some historians refer to Algiers as an Ottoman vassal state,[57] state-province[58][59] or "Imperial state".[20][60] The historian Lamnouar Merouche stresses that although Algiers was an increasingly autonomous province within the Ottoman Empire, it had at the same time all the attributes of a state.[21]

Hayreddin had to return to Jijel after a coalition of the Hafsids with the Kabyle kingdom of Kuku blockaded Algiers and took it in 1520.[61][62] To gain legitimacy among the local tribes, he and his men used their reputation as "holy warriors". They gathered support from the Kabyle kingdom of Beni Abbas, a rival of Kuku.[62] Hayreddin retook Algiers in 1525 after defeating the prince and founder of Kuku, Ahmad ibn al-Kadi,[63][64] and then destroyed the Peñón of Algiers in 1529.[65] Hayreddin used its rubble to build Algiers's harbour,[66] making it the headquarters of the Algerian corsair fleet.[67] Hayreddin established the military structure of the Regency,[68] formalising an institution known as the Corsairs of Algiers. It would become the model for Barbary corsairs in Tunis, Tripoli and the Republic of Salé in the 17th century.[69] He conducted several raids on Spanish coasts[70] and vanquished the Genoese fleet of Admiral Andrea Doria at Cherchell.[71] Hayreddin also rescued over 70,000 Andalusian refugees from the Spanish inquisition and brought them to Algeria,[72][70] where they contributed to the flourishing culture of the Regency.[73]

The Barbarossa brothers turned the city of Algiers into an Islamic bastion against Catholic Spain in the western Mediterranean,[74][75] making it the capital of what would become the early modern Algerian state.[76][75] The sultan called Hayreddin to the Porte to appoint him as Kapudan Pasha (grand admiral of the Ottoman fleet) in 1533. Before departing, Hayreddin named Sardinian renegade Hasan Agha his deputy in Algiers.[77]

Profile of a bearded man in a turban surrounded by an ornate frame. University of Heidelberg library.
Aruj Reis, Sultan of Algiers, 1590s. University of Heidelberg Library.
1575 map of the city of Algiers
Birds-eye view of Algiers, 1575 Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. University of Heidelberg library.
Profile of a bearded man in a turban surrounded by an ornate frame
Hayreddin Reis, first beylerbey of Algiers.University of Heidelberg library.

Hayreddin's successors

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Ships, one at anchor, off the coast of a city whose towers are visible
Noord-Afrikaanse galeien 1684. North African galleys. Jan Luyken, Rijksmuseum

The beylerbeys were usually strongmen who kept most of the Maghreb firmly under Ottoman control, garrisoning the main towns with troops and collecting taxes on land while relying heavily on privateering at sea.[78] Assisted by a council of government, they took care to respect local institutions and customs under their dominion.[20] Because of their experience in fleet command, some beylerbeys became Kapudan Pasha[67] and led the Ottoman expansion in the Mediterranean.[79]

For most of the 16th century, the beylerbeys acted as independent sovereigns despite acknowledging the suzerainty of the Ottoman sultan,[80][55] who gave them a free hand but expected Algerian ships to help enforce Ottoman foreign policy if required.[81] However, the interests of Algiers and Constantinople eventually diverged on the matter of privateering, over which the Sublime Porte had no control.[82] Beylerbeys often remained in power for several years and exercised authority over Tunis and Tripoli as well.[83][84] In addition, the timar system that granted fertile land to Ottoman elite sipahi cavalrymen was not applied in Algiers; instead, the beylerbeys sent tribute to Constantinople every year after paying off the expenses of the Regency.[6]

Algerian expansion
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The foreign policy of Algiers aligned completely with the Ottoman Empire.[85] Under Hasan Agha, Algiers repelled a naval attack led by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in October 1541.[86][87] The victory over the Spaniards was seen by the local population as a divine mandate of the Ottoman rule.[88] Hasan Agha subjugated Kuku in the east in 1542,[89] extended his rule south to Biskra and gained Tlemcen's support in the west.[90][91] The Spanish defeat made Algiers the center of piracy, attracting pirates from all over the Mediterranean. The city became a bazaar for thousands of captured Christian slaves.[92] British historian Matthew Carr points out that Algiers was known in Christian Europe as "the scourge of Christendom", while he described it as "a kind of 16th-century rogue state".[93]

Detailed depiction of North African, European and west Asian political status.
Beylerbeylik of Algiers within the Ottoman Empire (in red) during the Ottoman-Habsburg wars in 1559, Historical atlas of the world and the Ottoman Empire. Eser Mehmed Esref (1913).

Hayreddin's son Hasan Pasha succeeded Hasan Agha in 1544.[94] He led campaigns against Spanish ally Saadian Morocco,[95] decisively defeating it in Tlemcen in 1551.[96][95] He was recalled by Sultan Suleiman later that year after the French ambassador in Constantinople Gabriel d'Aramon complained of Hasan Pasha's growing power and his refusal of the French naval support to his Moroccan campaign.[97] As the Ottomans and the French had been coordinating their war efforts against the Spanish Empire since 1536, the Sultan accepted Aramon's request to replace him with Salah Rais.[98] A distinguished former subordinate of Hayreddin Reis, Salah Rais[99] expanded his rule to the Berber Beni Djallab's principalities in Touggourt and Ouargla,[96] making them tributaries.[100]

Salah Reis then advanced as far as the Moroccan city of Fez in January 1554, placing Saadians' opponent Abu Hassun as an Ottoman vassal there.[95][101] However, the Saadians soon ousted him from Fez in September 1554.[102] Salah Rais captured Spanish-held Béjaïa in 1555,[103] and his death ignited tensions between the janissaries and the corsairs in 1556. The janissaries supported Hasan Corso, a Corsican renegade,[104] who refused to submit to the pasha sent from Constantinople, Mehmed Tekerli, and declared his independence of the Ottoman Empire.[105][106] Although the pasha murdered Hasan Corso with the corsairs' support, the janissaries killed him in retribution.[107] The subsequent instability prompted the sultan to restore order by sending Hasan Pasha back to Algiers.[105] He thwarted the expedition to Mostaganem of the Spanish governor of Oran Count Alcaudete's in 1558.[108] After a failed attempt to conquer Oran in 1563 and the Ottoman loss in the Grand Siege of Malta in 1565, Hasan Pasha was appointed Kapudan Pasha by Suleiman's successor Selim II and replaced with Muhammed I Pasha, son of Salah Reis, who ruled Algiers for only two years.[109]

The last beylerbey of Algiers was Calabrian-born corsair Uluj Ali Pasha.[110][111] He captured Tunis from Hafsid vassals of Spain in 1569[112] before losing it to the Christian forces under Spanish commander John of Austria in 1573, who left 8,000 men in the Spanish presidio of La Goletta.[113] Uluj Ali recaptured the city in 1574,[114] while his ships saved the Ottoman fleet from total defeat by the Catholic Holy League in the battle of Lepanto in 1571.[115] Sultan Selim II rewarded him with the title of Kapudan Pasha. Uluj Ali rebuilt the Ottoman fleet, which would count 200 vessels and would be manned by North African sailors, all while retaining his nominal position of beylerbey.[116]

Uluj Ali's deputy Caïd Ramdan [fr] captured Fez in 1576 after defeating the Saadian ruler Mohammed II and put Mohammed's kinsman Abd al-Malik on the throne as an Ottoman vassal.[117][118] In 1578 another deputy of Uluj Ali, Hassan Veneziano, led his troops deep into the Sahara to the oases of Tuat in central Algeria to respond to pleas from its inhabitants for help against Saadi-allied tribes from Tafilalt.[119][120] A campaign against Morocco led by Uluj Ali was aborted in 1581,[121] as Saadian ruler Al-Mansur had at first vehemently refused to serve under Selim II's successor Murad III, but agreed to pay annual tribute afterwards.[122] Nonetheless, the Figuig oases in the south western Maghreb were part of the Regency by 1584.[123] Veneziano's privateers ravaged the Mediterranean and made the waters unsafe from Andalusia to Sicily.[124] Their power reached as far as the Canary Islands.[121]

Golden age

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Pashalik period (1587–1659)

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A crowd of people bow to a mounted dignitary arriving with an escort
The arrival of the new pasha, Viceroy of Algiers, sent by the great lord (Ottoman Sultan) Jan Luyken (1684). Amsterdam Museum.

Fearful of the growing authority of the beylerbeylik, the Sublime Porte replaced it with pashas who served a three-year term starting in 1587.[125] The Ottomans also divided the Maghreb into the three regencies of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli.[126] The first pashas, such as Khider Pasha [fr] and Kose Mustafa Pasha, served for multiple terms, which guaranteed stability. From the mid-17th century, pashas were isolated and deprived of local support,[127] as they were constantly torn between the demands of the two local ruling factions, the corsairs and janissaries.[82] The corsair captains were effectively outside the pashas' control, and the janissaries' loyalty to them depended on their ability to collect taxes and meet payroll.[128] Both groups sometimes refused orders from the sultan, or even sent the pashas appointed by the sultan back to Constantinople.[82]

Janissary insubordination
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Algiers was the headquarters of probably the largest janissary force in the empire outside Constantinople.[129] After Veneziano, the janissary corps grew stronger and more influential, challenging the corsairs for power.[55][78] In 1596, Khider Pasha led a revolt in Algiers in an effort to subdue the janissaries with help from Kabyles and Koulouglis—offspring of mixed marriages between Ottoman men and local women and having blood ties to the great indigenous families.[130] Although the revolt spread to neighboring towns, it ultimately failed.[131][132] The Kouloughlis failed to start another coup against the janissaries,[133] which won the janissaries sole power in Algiers.[130]

In the 16th century, France signed capitulation treaties with the Ottomans that gave the French trading privileges in Algiers,[134] which had differences with Constantinople regarding relations with France.[135] The French built a trading center known as the Bastion de France in the city of El Kala in eastern Algeria,[136] which exported coral legally under its monopoly and wheat illegally. As the Bastion was fortified and turned into a military supply base and a center of espionage,[137] Khider Pasha destroyed it in 1604.[138] The Ottoman Porte had him assassinated and replaced by the more compliant Mohammed Koucha [fr] Pasha,[139] but the janissaries revolted in 1606 and tortured him to death.[140] The janissary council, known as the diwan, challenged the pashas' authority by taking charge of the treasury and foreign affairs,[13] becoming the effective government of Algiers by 1626. It began official acts with the phrase, "We, pasha and diwân of the invincible militia of Algiers".[141][142] According to the priest and historian Pierre Dan [fr] (1580–1649), "The state has only the name of a kingdom since, in effect, they have made it into a republic."[143]

Corsair autonomy
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A square-rigged ship leaving a harbor
An Algerine Ship off a Barbary Port, Andries van Eertvelt (Royal Museums Greenwich)

After the Battle of Lepanto, the corsairs broke loose from the Sublime Porte and began to prey on ships from countries at peace with the Ottomans.[144][145] Their tai'fa (lit.'group') formed a council of corsair captains who resided in the western quarter of the city of Algiers.[146] It constituted the embodiment of state sponsored piracy, since the economical prosperity of Algiers depended on the corsairs' looting.[147] Algiers started strengthening and modernizing its fleet; by the end of the 16th century, janissaries were allowed to join corsair ships.[148] As the 17th century started, the corsairs adopted square-rigged sails and tapered hulls. Their ships became faster and less dependent on a steady supply of galley slaves.[149][150] Many of the Moriscos expelled from Spain joined the corsairs, and they debilitated Spain, ravaging its mainland and its territories in Italy, where they captured people en masse.[144][151]

European renegades made up a majority on the tai'fa, amongst whom were former slaves who rose to positions of power.[41] Renegade captain Ali Bitchin became admiral of the Algerian navy in 1621[152] and raided Spanish harbors.[153] In 1638 Sultan Murad IV called the corsairs up against the Republic of Venice. A storm forced their ships to shelter at Valona, but the Venetians attacked them there and destroyed part of their fleet.[154][155] Claiming the corsairs had not been in his service, the Sultan refused to compensate them for their losses.[154] In response, Ali Bitchin refused to answer a summons from the Sultan to join the Cretan war in 1645. He then died quite suddenly.[156][157]

The 17th century was a "golden age" for the North African corsairs. Algerian autonomy and rivalry between Christian states made the prestige and wealth of the corsairs reach its zenith[158][159] as their intensified privateering significantly filled Algerian coffers.[160][125] In their search for booty and slaves, corsairs traveled as far as Iceland in 1627 and Ireland in 1631.[161][162] Historian Yahya Boaziz indicates that more than a thousand European ships were captured from 1608 to 1634, with more than 25,000 people enslaved, many of whom were Dutch, German, French, Spanish and English, making the value of the spoils total about 4,752,000 pounds. Pierre Dan estimated the value of seized cargo at around 20,000,000 francs.[163] Algiers became a thriving market in the 17th century for captives and plundered goods from all over the Mediterranean[144] as a wealthy city with over 100,000 inhabitants.[8] The reliance on piracy and captivity served to keep Algiers financially and politically independent from Constantinople.[164]

Military republic (1659–1710)

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Agha regime

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Helmeted man wearing a surcoat
Janissary of the Odjak of Algiers. Nicholas Bonnart [fr]. Gallica.
Map with 3-D representation of the topographic features of Algiers
City, port and breakwater of Algiers, c.1690. Gerard van Keulen [nl]. Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum

The pashas sent by the Sublime Porte worked to multiply their wealth as quickly as possible before the end of their three-year term in office. As governance became a secondary issue, the pashas lost all influence and respect,[165] and aversion to the Sublime Porte increased.[166] In 1659, Ibrahim Pasha pocketed some of the money the Ottoman sultan had sent to the corsairs as compensation for their losses in the Cretan War, which ignited a massive revolt,[167] and the rebellious corsairs arrested and imprisoned him.[168] Khalil Agha, commander-in-chief of the janissaries of Algiers, took advantage of the incident and seized power,[169][170] accusing the pashas sent by the Sublime Porte of corruption and hindering the Regency's affairs with European countries.[147] The janissaries effectively eliminated the authority of the pasha, whose position became purely ceremonial.[130] They assigned executive authority to Khalil Agha, provided that his rule would not exceed two years, and put legislative power in the hands of the diwan council. The sultan, forced to accept the new government, stipulated that the diwan pay the janissaries stationed there.[171] Khalil Agha began his rule by building the Djamaa el Djedid mosque.[172] The era of the aghas began[170] and the pashalik became officially a military republic.[173][174][175] The aghas who ruled Algiers after 1659 were all assassinated;[77] The first three aghas, Khalil, Ramazan and Shaban wanted to extend their assignment.[176] Agha Ali became an autocrat sovereign who alienated the diwan and whose conciliation policy with European states at the expense of privateering angered the corsairs.[177]

Deylik period

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Ships burning at anchor in the harbour at Béjaïa
English fireship set captured ships in Béjaïa on 18 May 1671, by Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707). British Royal Collection

In 1671 an English squadron led by Admiral Sir Edward Spragge destroyed seven ships anchored in the harbor at Algiers, and the corsairs killed Agha Ali.[178] Authority weakened,[131] and janissary leaders wanted to appoint another agha of a sovereign Algiers, but given the lack of candidates, they and the corsairs entrusted the Regency's government and the payroll of the janissaries to an old Dutch-born rais named Hadj Mohammed Trik[179][180] and gave him the titles of dey (maternal uncle), doulateli (head of state) and hakem (military ruler).[181]

After 1671 the deys led the country[182] and were supported by members of the diwan, of which the president seconded the dey and managed most state affairs.[183] This centralized government institutionalized relations between the janissaries, effective holders of both military and political power, and the corsairs, as the Regency's economic powerhouse that would remunerate the janissaries through the deys.[184][9] This made Algiers de facto independent of the Ottoman Empire.[9] However, the deys' power was checked by the diwan,[185] and both janissaries and corsairs ousted deys who lost their support.[186]

Foreign relations and privateering

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A map of western Europe and North Africa showing three figures. An archer points a bow at Philip IV of Spain as Louis XIII looks on.
17th-century balance of power (National Library of France

Privateering operations were regulated by treaties with European powers.[145] Algiers used privateering as a foreign policy tool to play its European counterparts against one other[187][188][e] and hunt merchant ships, prompting European states to sign peace treaties and seek Mediterranean passes (documents that identified ships that had safe passage), allowing European states to secure lucrative cabotage trade.[189][190] This gave the Regency's elites internal legitimacy as champions of jihad,[191] and according to early modern European authors, international respect for the Regency's sovereignty as an established government, despite still being a "nest of pirates".[192] The Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) noted that "Algiers exercised the jus ad bellum of a sovereign power through its corsairs".[193] The historian Daniel Panzac stressed:[194]

Indeed, privateering was based on two fundamental priniciples: it was one of the forms of war practiced by the Maghreb against the Christian states, which conferred upon it a dimension that was at one and the same time legitimate and religious; and it was exercised in a framework defined by a state strong enough to enact its rules and control their application.

Europe

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Peace between the Ottoman Empire and Spanish Habsburgs in 1580 did not concern their vassals, as both the Sovereign Order of Malta and the North African Regencies pursued hostilities. Their privateers were motivated by desires of vengeance, wealth and salvation.[195] England, France and the Dutch Republic were seen as allies by the Ottoman regencies until the end of the 16th century because of their common Spanish enemy,[196] but when James I of England and the Dutch States-General opted for peace with Spain in 1604 and 1609, respectively, and increased their shipping in the Mediterranean,[197] Algerian and Tunisian corsairs took advantage of their strong fleet to attack English and Dutch vessels, amassing wealth from capturing slaves and goods.[198] Ottoman incapacity to force Algiers to respect the Ottoman capitulations led European powers to negotiate treaties with Algiers directly on trade, tribute and slave ransoms,[199] recognizing Algerian autonomy despite its formal subordination to the Ottomans.[200]

France first established relations with Algiers in 1617,[201] with a treaty signed in 1619[202] and another in 1628;[203][137] the treaties mostly concerned the re-establishment of the Bastion de France and the rights of French merchants in Algiers,[204][205] but the Bastion was razed a second time by Ali Bitchin in 1637,[206] as armed incidents between French and Algerian vessels were frequent. Nonetheless, a treaty in 1640 allowed France to regain its North African commercial establishments.[206][207]

After attacks by the English in 1621[208] and the Dutch in 1624, Algerian corsairs took thousands of English[209] and Dutch sailors to the Algerian slave market,[210] resulting in intermittent wars followed by longlasting peace treaties whose tribute payments terms ranged from money to weapons.[210][211][212] Under Louis XIV, France built a strong navy to fend off the corsairs who raided Corsica and were everywhere in the waters off Marseilles in the late 1650s.[135] According to Panzac, relations with Algiers became strained because muslim slaves were never returned to Algiers, and privateering became a political necessity due to corsair-janissary rivalry, while European states faced financial difficulties in recovering their captives through diplomatic means.[213] France launched multiple campaigns against the Regency, first in Jijel and Collo in 1664,[214] then when several bombings of Algiers were conducted between 1682 and 1688 in what is known as the Franco-Algerian war,[187] which ended when a 100-year peace treaty was signed between Dey Hussein Mezzo Morto and Louis XIV.[215]

Maghreb

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Map of the Barbary states in 1707
North West Africa. Guillaume Delisle, 1707. Library of Congress.

Algiers entered a period of peaceful relations with Europe.[216] The resulting decline in privateering forced Algiers to seek other sources of revenue. Dey Hadj Chabane set his sights on his Maghrebi neighbors, Muradid Tunis and Alawi Morocco.[52] For historical reasons, Algiers considered Tunisia a dependency because Algiers had annexed it to the Ottoman Empire,[217] which made the appointment of its pashas a prerogative of the Algerian beylerbeys.[218] Faced with Tunisian ambitions in the Constantine region and opposition to Algerian hegemony,[219] the Algerian dey took the opportunity provided by the 20 years of civil war between the sons of the Muradid ruler of Tunis Murad II Bey to invade in 1694 and put a puppet bey on the throne.[220][221] A vengeful Murad III Bey of Tunis allied with Morocco and started the Maghrebi war in 1700.[217] He lost, and the Muradid dynasty was replaced by the Husainid dynasty,[217] which failed to free Tunis from Algerian suzerainty in 1735[222] and 1756.[223] Tunis remained an Algerian tributary until the early 19th century.[224]

Morocco opposed the Ottomans.[219] It also had ambitions to expand in western Algeria—especially in Tlemcen.[219] Algerian support for pretenders to the Moroccan throne[225] was answered with several invasions by Sultan Moulay Ismail in 1678,[226] 1692,[227] 1701[228] and 1707,[229] all of which failed.[230] Moulay Ismail was forced to accept the Moulouya River as his eastern border with Ottoman Algeria.[231]

Dey-pashas of Algiers

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Four people writing behind a turbaned man in talks with a group of representatives.
Mohamed Ben Hassan Pasha-Dey giving audience to the King of France's envoy Mr Dusault in 1719. Ismaël Hamet, Histoire du Maghreb 1720. Gallica.

Early-18th-century pashas tried to regain some of their lost authority, creating conflicts and instigating sedition to overthrow the deys.[169] From 1710 the deys assumed the title of pasha at the initiative of Dey Baba Ali Chaouch and no longer accepted representatives from the Sublime Porte.[232][10] The deys only nominally accepted Ottoman suzerainty by reciting the Sultan's name on Friday prayers and striking it on their coins.[233] Dey Ali Chaouch had Austrian ships captured in clear contradiction to the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Empire, and ignored an Ottoman-Austrian delegation's demand for compensation.[234] The deys' legitimacy increased, allowing them to establish a more stable form of government.[235] Deys were mainly elected from among the most powerful dignitaries of the central government known as "powers":[236] the treasurer, the commander-in-chief and the receiver of tribute.[237][233]

Strengthened authority

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Determined to remove the Spanish from Oran, Dey Mohammed Bektach took the opportunity afforded by the War of the Spanish Succession to send Mustapha Bouchelaghem Bey at the head of a contingent of janissaries and local volunteers to take the city. He succeeded in 1707,[238] but in 1732 the Duke of Montemar's forces recaptured the city.[239]

Fewer janissary recruits and decreased population and slaves[240] compelled the deys to expand and exploit the interior under their control,[241][242] as well as impose tributes and further trade with Tunis and European states,[243] with whom Algiers signed numerous treaties, such as Austria in 1725, the Dutch republic in 1726, Sweden in 1729, Tuscany in 1749 and Denmark in 1751–1752.[216][136] This resulted in fewer Renegade flow and lesser corsair prizes, which would shift the Algerian economy towards international trade dominated by Jewish merchants,[244] who became a commercial power and eliminated many European merchant houses from the Mediterranean. This deeply worried the merchants of the French city of Marseilles defending their threatened monopoly on Algerian external trade.[245] French consuls resented the Jews, and urged their government to pass ordinances to prevent them from trading in French ports. But the Jewish merchants dealt in prize goods from the corsairs as well as in more usual merchandise, and were essential to the deys' government because of their contacts and skill in aligning their affairs with the interests of the Algerian state.[246]

The deys imposed their authority on the janissaries and the raïs.[77] The latter did not approve of treaty provisions which restricted privateering, their main source of income, and remained attached to the external prestige of the Regency.[247] But European reactions, new treaties guaranteeing the safety of navigation and a slowdown in shipbuilding considerably reduced their activity. The raïs rebelled and killed Dey Mohamed Ben Hassan in 1724.[248]

The new dey, Baba Abdi Pasha, quickly restored order and severely punished the conspirators.[249] He stabilised the Regency and fought corruption. The diwan was gradually weakened in favor of the dey's cabinet, resulting in more stability through the implementation of a quasi-bureaucracy.[250][236] Relations with Constantinople became formalised; the sultan was assured of Algerian "obedience" in return for recruiting troops from Ottoman lands, yet the dey was not bound to Ottoman foreign policy.[251]

On 3 February 1748 Dey Mohamed Ibn Bekir issued The Fundamental Pact of 1748, a text that defined the rights of the subjects of Algiers and of all inhabitants of the Regency of Algiers. It codified the behavior of the different army units: janissaries, gunners, chaouchs and sipahis.[252][253] In the three beyliks (provinces), the beys relied on local notables since they had a limited number of janissaries. This allowed the coulouglis to become beys.[254]

Mohammed ben-Osman's rule

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Cannon of Dey Muhammed ben Othman, Hotel des Invalides

Baba Mohammed ben-Osman became dey in 1766 and ruled over a prosperous Algiers for 25 years until he died in 1791.[136][237] He built fortifications, fountains and a municipal water supply;[255] he also strengthened the navy,[256] kept the janissaries in check and developed trade.[237] The Algerian historian Nasreddin Saidouni reports that the Dey placed in the state treasury 200,000 Algerian gold sequins (or sultani)[257] that he had saved from his salary during the Spanish attacks on Algiers.[258] His governor of Constantine, Salah Bey, re-asserted Regency authority as far south as Touggourt.[259] During his rule, Algiers maintained its military superiority over its eastern and western neighbors.[260]

The Dey increased the annual tribute paid by several European states[237][201] such as Britain, Sweden, the Italian states and Denmark, which sent a naval campaign against Algiers under Frederik Kaas in 1770; the campaign failed, and Denmark was forced to pay heavy war compensations and send gifts to Algiers.[261][262]

In 1775 the Irish-born admiral of the Spanish Empire Alejandro O'Reilly led an expedition to subdue pirate activity in the Mediterranean. The assault's disastrous failure dealt a humiliating blow to the reorganized Spanish military.[263] This was followed by two bombardments by Spanish admiral Antonio Barceló's fleet in 1783[264] and 1784, also ending in defeat.[265] Led by Mohammed Kebir Bey in 1791,[266] Algiers launched a final assault on Oran, which was retaken after negotiations between Dey Hasan III Pasha and the Spanish Count of Floridablanca. The assault marked the end of almost 300 years of a state of war between Algeria and Spain.[267][240]

A document with Spanish and Arabic text. A seal and signature are inscribed on both the top and bottom of the Arabic text
The Treaty of 1791 ended almost 300 years of war. Archives, Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Fort and chapel of Santa Cruz, Oran
Fort and chapel of Santa Cruz, Oran

Fall of the Regency

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Internal crisis

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During the late 18th century, Algiers advanced on credit 2 million tons of wheat to the French First Republic through two influential Jewish merchants, Naphtali Busnash and Michel Bacri.[268] At the beginning of the 19th century, Algiers was plagued by political unrest and economic problems,[269] beginning with famine from 1803 to 1805.[269] Algerian reliance on the two Jewish merchants to trade with Europe was so great[246][f] that a crisis caused by crop failure led to the assassination of Busnash, who was held responsible for grain shortages. This was followed by the assassination of Dey Mustapha Pasha. Public unrest, a pogrom and successive coups followed, beginning a 20-year period of instability.[269] The Alawi Sultanate incited a massive Sufi Darqawiyya revolt in the peripheries of the Regency,[270][271] which was quelled with difficulty by the governor of Oran, Osman Bey.[272] Meanwhile, payment delays caused frequent janissary revolts, leading to military setbacks[273] as Morocco took possession of Figuig in 1805 and then Tuat and Oujda in 1808,[274][275][276] and Tunisia freed itself from Algerian suzerainty after the wars of 1807 and 1813.[277]

Barbary Wars

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Naval vassals bombing a coastal city as a ship burns
Reduction of Algiers (1816), Thomas Luny. Royal Museums Greenwich

Internal financial problems led Algiers to re-engage in widespread piracy against American and European shipping in the early 19th century, taking full advantage of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.[278] Algerian vessels attacked American merchant ships in 1785, claiming they were no longer under British protection and asserting an Algerian right to search and seizure.[279] The American president George Washington agreed to pay a ransom and annual tribute equal to $10 million over 12 years in accordance to a peace treaty with Algiers in 1795.[278] However, Algiers was defeated in the Second Barbary War by the United States in 1815 when Commodore Stephen Decatur's squadron killed Algerian admiral Raïs Hamidou in the battle off Cape Gata on 17 June 1815,[280] ending the Algerian threat to U.S. shipping in the Mediterranean.[280]

The new European order that emerged from the Coalition Wars and the Congress of Vienna did not tolerate Algerian raids and viewed them as a "barbaric relic of a previous age".[281] In August 1816 British admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth carried out a bombardment of Algiers that ended in a British and Dutch victory, a weakened Algerian navy and the liberation of 1,200 slaves.[282][283] Dey Ali Khodja, with support from the Kouloughlis and the Kabyles, disposed of the turbulent janissaries and transferred the seat of power and the treasury of the regency from the Djenina Palace to the Casbah citadel in 1817.[284]

The last deys of Algiers tried to nullify the consequences of the previous Algerian defeats by reviving buccaneering and resisting a British attack on Algiers in 1824,[285][286] creating the illusion that Algiers could still defend itself against a divided Europe.[287]

French invasion

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Ship attacking a walled city from its harbor
Admiral Dupperé attacking Algiers by sea, 3 July 1830, Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio (Palace of Versailles)

In Napoleon's time, Algiers benefited greatly from Mediterranean trade and France's massive food imports, many of which were bought on credit. In 1827, Hussein Dey demanded that the restored Kingdom of France pay off a 30-year-old debt dating from the 1790s for providing supplies to the soldiers of Napoleon's campaign in Egypt.[288]

The response of French consul Pierre Deval displeased Hussein Dey, who hit him with a fly whisk and called him an "infidel".[288] King Charles X took this incident as an opportunity to break off diplomatic relations[288] and launch a full-scale invasion of Algeria on 14 June 1830. Algiers surrendered on 5 July, and Hussein Dey went into exile in Naples, which marked the end of the Regency of Algiers.[289] The historian John Douglas Ruedy believes that the early 18th-century "deturkification" could have led to a 19th-century nationalization of the Algerian regime, but the French conquest put an end to this evolution.[290]

Administration

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Three-story palace
Djenina Palace, seat of the Regency of Algiers. L'Algérie photographiée: Province d'Alger (1856-1857). Gallica. Bibliothèque nationale de France.Félix-Jacques Moulin.

The Regency of Algiers' prominence as a regional power was a result of the Ottoman naval strategy that aimed to dominate its Christian enemies through the establishment of permenent naval bases on North African soil.[291] The corsairs waged war against the Christians through gunpowder and the resources of the Ottoman Empire. This granted them both political and military superiority to defeat weak local emirates and impose a foreign elite on a divided Maghrebi society.[292] As a consequence Ottoman Algeria's administrative organization relied on borrowed Ottoman systems and local traditions inherited from the Almohad Caliphate that were adopted by the Marinids, Zayyanids, and Hafsids. This was maintained by regular recruitment of military personnel from Ottoman ports in Anatolia and Morea, in exchange for tribute sent to the Sublime Porte.[293]

Stratocracy

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Some contemporary observers described the Regency of Algiers as a "despotic, military-aristocratic republic".[294][g] Montesquieu considered the Algerian government to be an aristocracy with republican and egalitarian characteristics, elevating and deposing a despotic sovereign.[295] It was unique among Muslim countries in having limited democracy and elected rulers. Democracy was extremely unusual in 18th-century Europe, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau found Algiers impressive in this respect,[296] while historian Edward Gibbon considered Algiers a "military government that floats between absolute monarchy and wild democracy".[295]

Building with multiple arches, and a fountain in the center of its courtyard
Moorish courtyard of the janissary barracks of Algiers

Power was in the hands of the Odjak,[297][39] a well-trained, resolute and democratically-spirited Anatolian Turkish janissary corps;[298][299] Merouche described it as a "collective regime", a "sovereign community" and a "military republic".[300] This Ottoman ruling class also referred to itself as Algerian.[301][185] Unlike modern political democracies based on majority rule, transfers of power and competition between political parties, politics in Algiers relied on the principle of consensus (ijma), which is legitimized by Islam and jihad.[296]

Natives and Kouloughlis were excluded from the Odjak, which was religiously endorsed and acted as a military order analogous to Hospitaller Rhodes.[39] The government centered on an Ottoman military elite separated from tribal and self-ruled indigenous society in the countryside. Rural populations gave allegiance and paid taxes to a military authority that respected their marabouts[302] and defended them against Christian powers.[h][303]

As a local government that accepted Ottoman suzerainty, Algiers underwent numerous political developments with the transformation of the Ottoman Empire from strength and expansion to weakness and stagnation.[304] American historian John Baptist Wolf noted that this 17th century military democracy was later hampered by the absolute rule of the deys, starting from Baba Ali Chaouch in 1710.[305]

Dey of Algiers

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A man seated on a sofa, with three attendants in Algerian dress, receives two men in European style attire on a balcony whose arched windows overlook the harbor
Dey Omar Agha receiving the representative of Lord Exmouth after the bombardment of Algiers in 1816. Victoria and Albert Museum.
Turbaned man sitting with a knife in his belt holding a peacock-feather fan
Hussein Pasha, last dey of Algiers (1818–1830). Royal Collection

the French philosopher Marquis d'Argens compared 18th-century Algiers to the Roman Empire under Nero and Caligula and called it a republic, even though he also called the dey of Algiers a king.[295] the French historian Charles-André Julien wrote that the dey was head of an elective but absolute monarchy.[306] The dey was responsible for enforcing civil and military laws, ensuring internal security, generating necessary revenues, organizing and providing regular pay for soldiers and assuring relations with the tribes,[307] but his power was limited by privateer captains and the diwan of janissaries, since any member of either body could aspire to become dey.[308] His fortune came from his civil list (which did not exceed that of the highest paid member of the janissaries), and although he could still receive shares of privateer booty and gifts from consuls and beys, his fortune reverted to the public treasury in the event of assassination.[309][310] This led some authors who compared the dey to the king of Poland–Lithuania to call him a "despot without liberty",[306][311] a "king of slaves and slave of his subjects" and a "man of wealth but far from a master of his treasures".[312][313]

Electing the dey was accomplished in absolute equality by unanimous vote among the armed forces.[314] Ottoman Algerian dignitary Hamdan Khodja wrote:[315]

Among the members of the government two of them are called, one "wakil-el-kharge", and the other "khaznagy". It is from these dignitaries that the dey is chosen; sovereignty in Algiers is not hereditary: personal merit is not transmitted to children. In a way we could say that they adopted the principles of a republic, of which the dey is only the president.

Election was required for confirmation from the Ottoman sultan, who inevitably sent a firman of investiture, a red kaftan of honor, a saber of state and the rank of Pasha of Three Horsetails in the Ottoman army.[316] Because the dey was elected for life and could only be replaced on his death, overthrowing him was the only method, so violence and instability flourished. This volatility led many early 18th-century European observers to point to Algiers as an example of the inherent dangers of democracy.[296]

Cabinet

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The dey appointed and relied on five ministers (plus an agha), who formed the "council of the powers" to govern Algiers:[317]

  • Khaznaji [fr]: Treasurer in charge of finances and the public treasury.[318] Often also translated as vizier of the dey, or "principal secretary of state".
  • Agha al-mahalla [fr]: Commander-in-chief of the Odjak and minister of internal affairs, he was also responsible for governing the Dar Es-Soltane [fr] region of Algiers.
  • Wakil al-Kharaj [fr] : Minister of the navy and foreign affairs,[318] he was the Kapudan rais or head of the tai'fa of rais. He was also responsible for matters relating to weapons, ammunition and fortifications.
  • Khodjet al-khil [fr]: Responsible for relations with tribes, fiscal responsibilities and tax collections; he usually headed expeditions to the tribal interior. He also had the ceremonial role of "secretary of horses" and was assisted by a Khaznadar (treasurer).[319]
  • Bait al-Maldji: Responsible for the state domain (makhzen) and for rights devolved to the treasury such as vacant inheritances, registrations and confiscations.[319]

The dey also nominated muftis (Islamic jurists) as the highest echelon of Algerian justice. [320]

Diwan council

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Black and white painting of a man seated on a high seat in a type of court, with people all around him
Hasan Agha addresses audiences in a large square. Attitude of the Divan of Algiers, by Jan Luyken (1684). Amsterdam Museum

The diwan of Algiers was established in the 16th century by Hayreddin Reis. To manage state affairs and govern the country, he relied on carefully chosen janissary members of the diwan council.[321][322] This assembly, initially led by a janissary agha, evolved from an administrative body within the Odjak into a primary institution holding true power in Algiers.[323] By the middle of the 17th century, it elected the head of state.[308]

The diwan comprised two divisions:[167]

  • The private (janissary) diwan (diwân khass): Any recruit could rise through the ranks (one every three years). Over time, he would serve among 24 janissary bulukbasis (senior officers), who voted on high politics.[324] The commander-in-chief or "Agha of Two Moons" was elected for a term of two months as president of the diwan through a system of "democracy by seniority".[325] During the Agha period (1659–1671) he was the ruler of the Regency and held the title of hakem.[167] The agha was the holder of the Fundamental pact ('Ahad aman) of 1748,[326] which was often considered the constitutional basis of the Regency.[300] According to Hamdan Khodja:[327]

    The head of this divan is called Aghat-el-Askar; he carries a saber and a kind of relic which contains the regulations of the regency (their charter); The agha must always carry this relic with him and never part without it.

  • The public, or Grand Diwan (diwân âm), was composed of 800 to 1,500 Hanafi scholars and preachers, the raïs, and native notables.[328] By the early-mid 17th century, the pasha, the agha of the janissaries and the admiral of the corsairs were heads of their respective factions in the Grand Diwan, holding decision-making power[329] and sharing sovereignty in Algiers.[330] However, starting from the Agha period, the Grand Diwan convened only to make wartime decisions and to resolve serious disputes within the government.[329] At the beginning of their mandate, the deys consulted the diwan on all important questions and decrees. This council in principle met weekly, depending on the dey, though by the 19th century, the dey could ignore the diwan whenever he felt powerful enough to govern alone.[331][332]

Territorial management

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Map of Algeria and parts of Spain, Morocco and Tunisia
Ottoman Algeria

The Regency was composed of various beyliks under the authority of beys (vassals):[333]

These beyliks were institutionally distinct and enjoyed significant autonomy.[334]

Under the beylik system, the beys divided their beyliks into outan, or counties, governed by caïds (commanders) under the authority of the bey to maintain order and collect taxes.[99] The beys ran an administrative system and managed their beyliks with the help of commanders and governors among the makhzen tribes. In return, these tribes enjoyed special privileges, including exemption from taxes.[335]

The bey of Constantine relied on the strength of the local tribes, particularly the Beni Abbas in Medjana and the Arab tribes in Hodna and the M'zab region. The chiefs of these tribes were called Sheikh of the Arabs.[99] This system allowed Algiers to expand its authority over northern Algeria for three centuries.[336]

Economy

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Slave ransoms

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A man chained at the ankle holding a sewing needle, 2 ships at sea to his bottom right and left, French text above and behind him
French slave in Algiers working as a tailor before his ransoming (1670–1685). This self-portrait done later in Paris. Leichtenstein Princely Collection.

Algerian corsairs captured many people on land and at sea from Mediterranean shores to Atlantic high seas[337] and brought them to the slave market in Algiers, through which passed between 25,000 and 36,000 slaves of many nationalities,[160][338] totaling over one million European slaves in the early modern period, making slavery the cornerstone of the Algerine economy.[339]

After captured individuals were paraded naked, examined and inspected to assess their qualities, social position and value,[340] they were divided into three groups:[341]

  • Those believed ransomable: Usually rich and better referred to as "captives", they were an important source of revenue. Their owners spared them the hardest tasks to preserve their value, as they were to be ransomed as quickly as possible.[342] "The captive was a piece of merchandise which it was to no one's interest to damage", noted Julien.[343]
  • Those not believed ransomable: Lower-class and priced like their Muslim counterparts in France,[344] these prisoners often became galley slaves or were assigned to other forced labor like moving rocks. A few were chosen as household domestic slaves.[337]
  • Those freed without ransom to be exchanged for Muslim captives, to honor prior agreements between states, or because a war had been lost.

Government-owned captives were held in prisons called bagnos; six operated in Algiers.[343] Privately owned captives were housed by their owners,[345] who were often rich individuals or privateering collectives.[346]

In Spain, France and the Dutch Republic,[342] ransom funds came from the captive's family, the state or religious orders of the Catholic church who negotiated in Algiers for the captives.[347] Catholic missions such as the Trinitarians and the Mercedarians[344] were instructed to identify captives in danger of apostasy, captives whose family and friends had raised money and valuable individuals before reaching a ransom agreement.[348] Captives who could buy their own freedom were allowed to move freely in Algiers, and often managed its taverns.[343]

Christians were exchanged for small sums in the early 16th century. However, in the 17th century redemptionist missions paid at least 100 pounds for their freedom. Persons of distinction were almost priceless: the governor of the Canary Islands bought himself back in 1670 for 60,000 pounds.[349]

After ransom was paid, additional fees for customs duties were still required, over 50 percent of the agreed ransom:[350]

  • 10% for customs
  • 15% for the pasha or dey
  • 4% for the khaznaji (secretary of state)
  • 7% for the wakil al-kharaj (harbourmaster)
  • 17% for prison guards

Slaves with special skills, such as surgeons and master carpenters who built or repaired ships, often could not be ransomed at any price.[351]

Armed and turbaned men beat prisoners as a priest ransoms them
Christian captives, 17th century. Le Commerce des Captifs. Wolfgang Kaiser
A plaza where chained people are displayed naked for sale
Slave market in Algiers, 17th century. Amsterdam Museum.

Royalties

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Algiers charged its European trading partners royalties for freedom of navigation in the western Mediterranean and gave the merchants of those countries special privileges, including lower customs duties.[352][136] Royalties were also imposed on Bremen, Hanover and Prussia, in addition to the Papal States at times.[352] These royalties were paid annually or biennially and differed according to the relationship between those countries and Algiers, and the conditions prevailing in that period had an impact on determining their amounts, shown in the following table:[352]

Royalties: Late 18th century to early 19th century
Country Year Value Current value (USD)
Spanish Empire 1785–1807 After signing the armistice of 1785 and withdrawing from Oran, was required to pay 18,000 francs. It paid 48,000 dollars in 1807. *equivalent to $36,378,413 in 2022 (1785) equivalent to $998,836 in 2023 (1807)
Grand Duchy of Tuscany 1823 Before 1823, 25,000 doubles (Tuscan lira) or 250,000 francs. *equivalent to $486,945,880 in 2022
Kingdom of Portugal 1822 20,000 francs *equivalent to $40,365,783 in 2022
Kingdom of Sardinia 1746– 1822 Under the treaty of 1746, 216,000 francs by 1822. *equivalent to $435,950,459 in 2022
Kingdom of France 1790– 1816 Before 1790, it paid 37,000 livres. After 1790, it pledged to pay 27,000 piastres, or 108,000 francs, and in 1816 committed to pay 200,000 francs. *equivalent to $5,745,110 in 2023 (–1789) equivalent to $197,370,758 in 2022 (1790–)

equivalent to $304,396,795 in 2022 (1816)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1807 It pledged to pay 100,000 piastres, or 267,500 francs, in exchange for certain privileges. *equivalent to $400,705,897 in 2022
Kingdom of the Netherlands 1807–1826 In the treaty of 1826, it committed to paying 10,000 Algerian sequins, and in 1807, it paid 40,000 piastres, or 160,000 francs. *equivalent to $239,674,555 in 2022
Austrian Empire 1807 In 1807, paid an estimated 200,000 francs. *equivalent to $299,593,194 in 2022
United States 1795–1822 In 1795 paid 1,000,000 dollars annually, and $10 million over 12 years, in exchange for special privileges. Equipment accounted for 21,600 dollars.[278] *equivalent to $17,952,941 in 2023 (1795 alone)

*equivalent to $179,529,412 in 2023 (over 12 years)

Kingdom of Naples 1816–1822 Paid royalties estimated at 24,000 francs. Starting 1822, paid a royalty of 12,000 francs every two years. *equivalent to $36,527,615 in 2022 (1816) equivalent to $24,219,470 in 2022 (1822)
Kingdom of Norway 1822 Royalty of 12,000 francs every two years. *equivalent to $24,219,470 in 2022
Denmark 1822 Paid 180,000 francs every two years. *equivalent to $363,292,049 in 2022
Kingdom of Sweden 1822 120,000 francs every two years. *equivalent to $242,194,699 in 2022
Republic of Venice 1747–1763 From 1747, it paid 2,200 gold coins annually, which in 1763 became an estimated 50,000 riyals (Venetian lira). *equivalent to $803,955,274 in 2020 (1763)

Trade

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External trade

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Two ships with sails and smaller boats with oars in a harbor, with a walled city and a citadel behind them and a steep hill in the background
Dutch shipping off Algiers. Oil on canvas, Reinier Nooms (1623/1624–1664). National Maritime Museum.

Along with tribute payments, Algerian wheat exports to Europe replaced privateering as its primary source of income in the 18th century and became the core factor in trade relations between Algiers and Britain, Genoa and France.[318] The French Compagnie royale d'Afrique [fr] controlled French wheat imports in 1741 from the Algerian Constantinois.[353] Merouche wrote:[354]

[...] well over 100,000 quintals of wheat (is) exported each year from Algerian ports in 1698 and 1699. The great movement of cereal exports began in 1693 and would expand thereafter. The century of wheat succeeded the century of privateering.

Most Algerian exports went to Marseille, predominantly by sea. Exports included, according to historian William Spencer, "carpets, embroidered handkerchiefs, silk scarves, ostrich feathers,[355] wax, wool, animal hides and skins, dates, and a coarse native linen similar to muslin".[356] The sea trade was run by the Bacri and Busnash families, who had settled in Algeria by 1720.[357] After acting as mediators in the Christian slave trade in the heyday of privateering,[357] they entangled the public interest of the Regency with the private interests of their own companies through their European contacts.[246] These merchants amassed massive wealth from dealing in goods such as wheat and leather and from their monopoly on olive oil and customs taxation. They became the financiers of the dey and mediators between Algiers and Europe, both in diplomacy and in trade.[357]

Large caravans of 300 mules went overland to neighbouring Tunisia twice a year.[245] The city of Constantine was a meeting point for caravans from the Sahara, Tunis and Algiers; they were loaded with woven fabric, carpets, chechias, luxury goods and coffee. Caravans from the south brought dates and wool products like burnouses and haiks.[358] In the west, Tlemcen was linked by trade routes as far as Tafilalt in Morocco and Timbuktu in the Sudan. The former brought salt, spices, Moroccan leather, silk and gun wood; the latter, ostrich feathers, ivory, slaves, vermillion, copper and gold.[358] "Desert oases have historically been essential, strategic locations in trans-Saharan routes," wrote Chaibou and Bonnet, naming "Bilma (Niger), Ouardane (Mauritania), In Salah (Algeria), Taoudenni (Mali), Iférouane, Chinguetti (Mauritania), Kufra, and Murzuk (Libya)."[359] Trade did not flourish. The state awarded monopolies, often to the highest bidder, as a source of guaranteed revenue, and imposed a 2.5 percent duty on exports and 12.5 percent on imports. Trade in military assets such as cannons and small arms was prohibited.[360]

Internal trade

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Overland trade used animals to transport goods. Carts could be used on suitable roads. The many official posts of the Odjak and the makhzen tribes along the way provided security for caravans. In addition, caravanserais, locally known as fonduk, gave travelers a place to rest.[361] Products such as wool from the tribal interior were traded in bazaars (known locally as souks). These took the names of tribes preceded by days of the week, for example: Souk Al Arbaa Al-Attafs (lit.'Wednesday market of Al-Attaf tribe'). Souks formed hubs for trading agricultural products such as grain, olives, cattle, sheep and horses.[362] In urban marketplaces they bought imported jewelry textiles and pottery. Jewish intermediaries helped further exchanges between cities and the countryside.[362]

Administrative control over the Sahara was often loose, but Algiers's economic ties to it were very important,[363] and Algerian cities were among the main destinations of the trans-Saharan slave trade.[364] In the late 18th century the Regency "appears to have witnessed considerable commercial activity in the Algerian Sahara, related perhaps to the period of stability and prosperity under Dey Baba Mohammed ben-Osman, who ruled at Algiers from 1766 to 1791", Donald Holsinger wrote, "despite the picture of commercial decadence which has sometimes been painted for the Regency".[355]

Taxation

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Some of the taxes levied by the Regency fell under Islamic law, including the cushr (tithe) on agricultural products, but some had elements of extortion.[365] Periodic tithes could only be collected from crops grown on private farmland near the towns; instead, nomadic tribes in the mountains paid a fixed tax, called garama (compensation), based on a rough estimate of their wealth. In addition, rural populations also paid a tax known as lazma (obligation) or ma'una (support) that paid for Muslim armies to defend the country from Christians. City dwellers had other taxes, including market taxes and dues to artisan guilds.[366] Beys also collected gifts (dannush) every six months for the deys and their chief ministers. Every bey had to personally bring dannush every three years. In other years, his khalifa (deputy) could take it to Algiers.[367]

The arrival of a bey or khalifa in Algiers with dannush was a notable event governed by a protocol setting out how to receive him and when his gifts would be given to the dey, his ministers, officials and the poor. The honors that the bey received depended on the value of the gifts he brought. Al-Zahar reported that the chief of the western province was expected to pay more than 20,000 doro in cash, half that in jewelry, four horses, fifty black slaves, woollen tilimsans, silk garments from Fez, and twenty quintals each of wax, honey, butter, and walnuts . Dannush from the Eastern Province was larger and included Tunisian perfumes and clothing.[365]

Agriculture

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Man on horseback herding goats
Kabyle Shepherd, by Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876). Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Agricultural production eventually overtook privateering as a source of Regency revenue.[67] Fallowing and crop rotation were widely practiced. Wheat, cotton, rice, tobacco, watermelon and corn were the most commonly grown products.[368] Cereals and livestock products especially constituted much of the export trade after providing for local consumption of oil, grain, wool, wax and leather.[369]

The state owned very fertile lands called fahs. Located near the main towns, these lands were granted to Turkish military personnel, Kouloughli families, makhzen tribes and urban notables under the azl system.[370] Fahs were cultivated by tenant farmers who received a fifth of the harvest under the khammas sharecropping system for common land.[371] The Metija provided it with various fruits and vegetables.[372] Algerian wine was particularly sought after in Europe for its quality.[373][372]

Vast areas of Algeria's land were known as arsh, where animal husbandry predominated.[374] Historian Mahfoud Kaddache [fr] stresses: "Arsh land, land of the tribes, belongs to the tribal community, it is frequently divided into two parts; the larger part, undivided, is used by the entire tribe and forms pasture areas, the second part is reserved for crops and allocated between families."[370] Lands classified as melk were under customary Berber law and were possessed and inherited through tribal families.[371][375]

Algeria's agricultural wealth came from the quality of the cultivated land, agricultural techniques (ploughs dragged by oxen, donkeys, mules, or camels), irrigation and water systems that supplied small collective dams. Mouloud Gaid [fr] wrote: "Tlemcen, Mostaganem, Miliana, Médéa, Mila, Constantine, M'sila, Aïn El-Hamma, etc., were always sought after for their green sites, their orchards and their succulent fruits."[376] South of the Tell Atlas, most of the western population and the people of the Sahara were pastoralists, nomads and semi-nomads who grew dates and bred sheep, goats and camels. Their products (butter, wool, skins, camel hair) were traded north[377] in their annual migration to summer pastures.[378]

Crafts

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Two flintlock pistols inlaid with salmon-colored coral
Coral-decorated pistols presented by the dey of Algiers as a gift to the Prince Regent (later George IV of Great Britain) in 1811 and 1819. Metropolitan Museum of Art

Manufacturing was restricted to shipyards, which built frigates of oak sourced from Kabylia. The smaller ports of Ténès, Cherchell, Dellys, Béjaïa and Djidjelli built shallops, brigs, galiots, tartanes and xebecs used to fish or transport goods between Algerian ports.[379] Christian slaves were employed in these shipyards, often managed by Christian renegades, and sometimes even free Christians as captains of armament or engineers of naval constructions, whose services were hired without a requirement to convert to Islam.[380] Several workshops supported repairs and rope-making.[381] The quarries of Bab El-Oued extracted stone, raw material for buildings and fortifications.[382] The Bab El-Oued foundries produced cannons of all sizes for the warships of the Algerian navy and for use as fort batteries and field artillery.[379]

Cities were established centers for artisanry and served as hubs for international trade.[369] Residents of Nedroma, Tlemcen, Oran, Mostaganem, Kalaa, Dellys, Blida, Médéa, Collo, M'Sila, Mila and Constantine were mostly artisans and merchants. The most common crafts were weaving, woodturning, dyeing, rope-making and tool-making.[383] Algiers was home to foundries, shipyards, and workshops. Tlemcen had more than 500 looms. Artisans were prevalent even in small towns.[384]

Society

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Urban population

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Men and women wearing robes
Moors of Algiers, by Jacob van Meurs in Description de l'Afrique by Olfert Dapper

At most 6% of the population lived in cities.[385] In 1808 Algerian society included around 10,000 Turks; a class of Kouloughlis emerged as offspring of Turkish soldiers and Algerian women.[386] In the 17th century the population of Algiers was dominated by refugees from Andalusia and also included about 35,000 White Christian slaves working on the docks and in quarries and shipyards.[387] By the late 19th century that number had dropped to about 2,000 and was only around 200 in 1830.[387] About 1,000 black slaves worked as household servants; many freed black slaves also worked on the docks as masons.[387] In the 18th century, French and Italian Jewish merchants began to arrive, a distinct and more affluent group than the Jewish minority among the earlier Andalusian arrivals.[387] Moors could hold legal and police powers within Algiers as mayors.[388] Guilds regulated most trade and, like city neighborhoods headed by amins, responded to emergencies and strengthened community solidarity.[389] The fraternal relations in the hierarchical system of the urban Algiers were devoid of rivalry between the few great merchants in the wealthy upper class and the poorer lower classes of shopkeepers, craftsmen and scholars.[390] The Muslim faith prevailed in every aspect of life.[391] Public business was carried out in both Arabic and Osmanli.[392] In addition to butcher shops and grocery stores, Ibadi Mozabites operated bath houses.[389] The shops and bazaars clustered around the alleys off the single main street of the lower city near the harbor,[393][385] overlooking the sea in the lower town or strategically located at crossroads.[394]

Social structures

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The tribe was a primary social and political structure based upon family.[395] Competition among tribes for land and water was mediated through a sense of unity based on consanguinity, shared Islamic faith and their economic need to trade with each other to prevent dangerous social friction and encourage unity against external threats.[395]

This system persisted under the Regency. The traditional isolation of the city from the hinterland ceased, ending the traditional divide between urban and rural areas of the central Maghreb.[396] Cities and villages articulated their own organizations within the tribal systems and confederations.[397] Although they depended on tribal society, cities weakened the political power and influence of tribes, which adapted but did not disappear. Their importance varied from region to region; they remained relatively important in the Aurès, for example.[398]

A complex link of interdependencies developed between tribes and the state as they adapted to government pressure.[398][399] They were assigned social roles; the Biskri Berbers were charged with street maintenance and guarding quarters, and the Berbers of Kabylia and Aurès frequently worked in Algiers.[400]

The state was sometimes necessary for the consolidation of the tribes; their relationships were complementary at times.[399] Makhzen tribes derived their legitimacy from their affiliation to the government, protecting urban areas, collecting taxes and exercising military control of the state in the countryside. The rayas tribes were tax-paying subjects, and the siba tribes were dissidents who opposed taxes, which reduced their surplus production.[401] However, they still depended on market access organised by the state and the makhzen tribes. The markets outside the territories dependent on the state were managed by the marabouts who very often acted as guarantors of tribal order.[398]

The political authority of the tribes depended either on their military strength or their religious lineage.[398] These two aristocracies—the religious brotherhoods who dominated the west, and the djouad [fr] strongman families of the east—often opposed one another.[402] Algerian society had three separate aristocracies:[403]

Culture

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Education

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Inscription about a school built by Dey Baba Ali Chaouch. Algerian Museum of Antiquities

Education in Algeria mainly took place in small primary schools (kuttabs) that focused on reading, writing and religion, especially in rural areas.[410] Imams, zawiyas, marabouts and elders did most of the teaching.[411] Literacy was so effectively taught in these religious schools that in 1830 the literacy rate in Algeria was higher than in France.[412] Qadis or muftis often taught at the madrasas of the larger cities, maintained through waqf and central government funding.[410] The students received education on Islamic jurisprudence and Islamic medicine. Afterwards they became teachers, joined the qadis and muftis or pursued further education in the universities of Tunis, Fez or Cairo.[410]

In the Zayyanid period, Tlemcen was a primary center of Islamic culture, but schools and universities there declined due to neglect. Abu Hammu II's madrasa, known as Yaqubiyya, fell into complete ruin,[413] as the military and naval Ottoman elites' strong belief that northern Christendom needed to be prevented from expanding their military into the Maghreb hampered the development of learning, so they chose to neglect intellectual culture in favour of building forts, navies and castles.[414] This decline ended only when Mohammed el Kebir, bey of Oran, significantly invested in renovating and rebuilding several new educational facilities in the region.[413]

Architecture

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Mosque with a dome and square minaret
New Mosque (Djamaa el-Djedid) in Algiers, built in 1660–1661, an example of Ottoman and North African architecture blending in this period.[415]
Intricate inscriptions surround an inner dome shot from below
Inside view of the dome of Ketchaoua Mosque
An authentic capital used in the mihrab of the Ketchoua Mosque

Architecture in Algiers during this period showed a convergence of Ottoman influence with local traditions.[416] Mosques began to be built with domes under Ottoman influence, but minarets generally still had square shafts in the local tradition instead of the round or octagonal shafts seen in other Ottoman provinces, where pencil-shaped minarets were symbols of Ottoman sovereignty.[417][418] The Alit Bitchin Mosque in Algiers was commissioned by its namesake in 1622.[417] The Djamaa el Djedid, built in 1660–1661, became one of the most important Hanafi mosques in Algiers.[419][420] Architecturally one of the most significant remaining mosques of this era, it exemplifies a mix of Ottoman, North African, and European design elements, with its main dome preceded by a large barrel-vaulted nave.[415] By the end of the 18th century, the city had over 120 mosques, including over a dozen congregational mosques.[421]

Of the emblematic Ketchaoua Mosque, built by Dey Hassan III Pasha, Moroccan statesman and historian Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani wrote in 1795: "The money spent on it...was more than anyone could allow himself to spend except those whom God grants success."[422] Originally similar in design to the Ali Bitchin Mosque, its appearance radically changed under French colonial rule.[417]

After the Ottomans arrived, architectural ceramic tiles replaced zellij tiles decorated with stars and polygons used in geometric patterns in the medieval Maghreb.[423] Square decorative ceramic tiles were widespread in Algiers and Constantine, with simpler examples in Tlemcen.[424] According to Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Araj, "In the Turkish era tiles were characterized by...motifs in Islamic art such as epigraphic, geometric, and floral motifs."[425]

In addition to landscapes, seascapes, ships and animals, the tiles came in three types: Turkish, Tunisian and European (sourced from Italy, Spain and the Netherlands).[426] They decorated interior walls and floors, forming bands, patterns and frames around door jambs, window frames and balusters.[424]

Algiers was protected by a wall about 3.1 kilometres (1.9 mi) long with five gates.[427] Seafront fortifications were supplemented by forts outside the city, which included the "star fort" built above the qasba in 1568 to defend the landward approaches to the city,[428] the "twenty-four hour fort" in 1568–1569, and the Eulj Ali burj built in 1569 covering the Bab al-Oued beach. Facing south was the "emperor fort" or Sultan Kalassi, built between 1545 and 1580.[429]

The qasba occupied the highest point of the city. The lower town near the harbor was the center of Regency administration and contained the most important markets, mosques, palaces, janissary barracks and government buildings such as the mint.[427]

The construction of Djenina Palace ('Little Garden'), also called the Pasha's palace, began in 1552 by Salah Rais and finished in 1556.[430] Ali Bitchin's Spanish captive Emmanuel de Aranda described it as "a public structure for those who are advanced to that charge [i.e., the position of governor], well built after the modern way of Architecture". He added: "The most beautiful house in Algiers is that of Bacha [Bassa], or Viceroy, which is almost in the middle of the city. [It has] two small galleries one above the other, supported by a double row of columns of marble and porphyry."[431] The Djenina was located at the center of a larger complex known as the Dar al-Sultan until 1817, when Dey Ali Khodja moved to the Palace of the Dey in the qasba.[427] The only building from the Dar al-Sultan complex that remains today, the Dar 'Aziza Bint al-Bey, is believed to have been built in the 16th century.[432]

Sky seen from an open courtyard surrounded by tiled galleries
Sky seen from the courtyard of the Palais des rais
Ornate designs on walls, arches and columns surrounding an inner courtyard
Galleries at the Hassan Pacha Palace
Hallway lined by pillars decorated with patterned tiles
Tilework, Hassan III Pasha Khaznaji Palace, built 1791

Arts

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Crafts

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Three centuries of Ottoman influence in Algeria left many cultural elements of Turkish origin or influence, wrote Lucien Golvin.[433]

  • Brassware imported by janissaries likely inspired copper lanterns, trays, and ewers made in Algiers, Constantine and Tlemcen with Ottoman decorative elements like tulips and carnations.[433]
  • Ornate bronze door knockers were manufactured in Tlemcen until about 1930. Algiers and Constantine produced simpler versions.[433]
  • Saddlers made velvet-covered saddles embroidered with gold or silver thread, and bridles, belts, saddlecloths and boots with traditional Ottoman ornamentation.[434]
  • Ghiordés rugs and rugs from Kula seem to have influenced the early 19th-century adoption into the rugs of Hammam Guergour, Nemencha and Harakta tribes of large central lozenge-shaped medallions with arched lobes in a mihrab pattern, bordered by bands of floral elements. Those produced at the Qal'a of the Banu Rashid displayed multiple medallions in a more Andalusi style, and in the Amour mountains the Amour tribe [fr] continued to produce traditional tent rugs in geometric patterns.[434]
  • Clothing of janissaries, deys and other dignitaries was distinctive enough to be known in the Mediterranean as "Algerian style", including turbans and red sheshias, burnouses, kaftans, vests (sédria) embroidered with patterns, wide and baggy trousers belted with broad silk sashes, and babouche slippers. They were frequently armed with yatagans.[435]
  • Needle lace (chebika) and embroidery from Algiers were made under a ma'allema (teacher) on a horizontal loom (gargaf). Embroidery from Annaba and Djidjilli was multicolored with flat dots.[433]
Three pieces of cloth photographed. A red suit extending the lower body is placed on a mannequin at center left, a white cloth with black and gold embroidery is at the back, a red cloth with ornate patterns is at bottom right
Kaftan sent as part of a large gift from Dey Ali Abdi Pasha [fr] to the Swedish king in 1731 in connection with the peace treaty between Sweden and Algiers
Two men wearing green outfits and one women wearing a long hat and an embroidered vest
Morisco, Chaouch and Moorish man, from Journey to the regency of Algiers, Claude Antoine Rozet [fr] (1798-1858)
Woman wearing a red turban, embroidered caftan, and large baggy trousers
Daughter of Hussein Dey, believed to be Amina Hanem or Nafissa Hanem (ca. 1820). Victoria and Albert Museum.

Music

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New arrivals from Anatolia and Al-Andalus brought music to Algiers. Accented Ottoman military music with Sufi bektashi origins was played by janissary bands called mehterân.[436] Andalusi classical music brought to Algiers by Moriscos developed three styles; Tlemcenian gharnati, Constantine's ma'luf and sanaa in Algiers.[437] It was widespread in coffeehouses and often played by orchestras of tar, oud and rebab.[436]

Contemporary Algerian chaabi musician El-Hachemi Guerouabi recounts the exploits of corsairs against the Knights of Malta in his song Corsani Ghanem (English: Our ship captured a prize) based on 16th-century Algerian Arabic poetry by Imad Al-Din Doukkali.[438]

Musicians play sitting cross-legged on rich oriental rugs in a tiled room; men watch them, some accompanied by children, as a woman and two children descend a staircase in the background, and a servant brings tea.
Detail, Andalusian orchestra in Tlemcen. (2009) Bachir Yellès

Legacy

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Europeans saw Algiers as "the center of pirate activity – that captured the imagination of Europe as a fearsome and vicious enemy".[439] The 19th‑century French historian Henri de Grammont said:

It gave the world the singular spectacle of a nation living from privateering and living only by it, resisting the incessant attacks directed against it with incredible vitality, submitting three quarters of Europe and the United States of America to the humiliation of an annual tribute; all this, despite unimaginable disorder and daily revolutions, which would have killed any other association, and which seemed to be essential to the existence of this strange people.[440]

British historian James McDougall called this claim a "colonial myth". He pointed out that after the 17th century, termed by Merouche the "century of privateering",[441] less lucrative privateering remained symbolic of a corsair state. Tribute payments to guarantee peace, trade, customs, taxation and increased agricultural production brought in most of the revenue of the Regency in the 18th century,[136] which Merouche termed the "century of wheat".[441]

A technical map of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean with notable features marked or colored
Map of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Barbary Coast, by Alexandre Émile Lapie [fr], 1829. Geographicus.

American historian John Baptist Wolf argued that the local population resented occupation by a republic of foreign "cutthroats and thieves", and that the French "civilizing mission", although carried out by brutal means, offered much to the Algerian people.[442] However British historian Peter Holt indicates that this antagonism never took a nationalist aspect and was balanced by strong ties such as shared faith, social structure and culture.[443] Nacereddin Saidouni argues that although Algeria was not a nation in the modern sense, it was nevertheless a local political entity that helped deepen the sense of community among large segments of the Algerian population in the countryside and cities.[304] Yahia Boaziz noted that the Ottomans repelled European attacks and convinced the population to abide by the decisions of a centralised state.[444]

Historians John Douglas Ruedy and William Spencer write that the Ottomans in North Africa created an Algerian political entity with all the classical attributes of statehood and a high standard of living.[445][j] Historian Mahfoud Kaddache [fr] considered the Ottoman period "catalytic to the modern geopolitical and national development of Algeria."[446] Saidouni affirms that Algeria took a similar path as the rest of North African states that gradually imposed their sovereignty, as it was no different from Muhammad Ali's Egypt, Husainid dynasty's Tunisia and Alawi's Morocco.[304] However, Ruedy notes that the end of tribal rivalries and the emergence of a true nation state occurred only after long years of brutal French conquest and colonial implantation and unrelenting Algerian resistance, culminating in the Algerian war of independence in 1954.[447]

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Notes

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  1. ^ According to American consul James Leander Cathcart: "The gate (of the Dey's palace) is covered with a terrace which is surrounded with a gilt railing in the center of which is a flag staff mounted with a gilt crescent on which the banners of the nation as well as those of the Grand Signore and Mahomet are hoisted on Fridays and festivals."[2]
  1. ^ Other names: Arabic: دولة الجزائر, romanizedDawlat al-Jaza'ir, Ottoman Turkish: ایالت جزایر غرب, romanizedEyalet-i Cezâyir-i Garp
  2. ^ In the historiography of the Regency of Algiers, it has been known by many names. See section § Names below.
  3. ^ According to Merouche "It is first of all a new state integrated into a large empire, an "Imperial state", having at the same time all the attributes of a state in the sense of that time but which moreover constituted a largely autonomous province within the Ottoman Empire. The evolution of the status of the province towards a de-facto independence does not change the fundamentally Ottoman character of the state".(Merouche (2002) p. 10)
  4. ^ Algerian historian Mahfoud Kaddache [fr] wrote that "Algeria was first a regency, a kingdom-province of the Ottoman Empire and then a state with great autonomy, independent even, sometimes called a kingdom or military republic by historians, but which still recognized the spiritual authority of the caliph of Istanbul". (Kaddache (1998) p. 233)
  5. ^ William Spencer notes: "For three centuries, Algerine foreign relations were conducted in such a manner as to preserve and advance the state's interests in total indifference to the actions of its adversaries, and to enhance Ottoman interests in the process. Algerine foreign policy was flexible, imaginative, and subtle; it blended an absolute conviction of naval superiority and belief in the permanence of the state as a vital cog in the political community of Islam, with a profound understanding of the fears, ambitions, and rivalries of Christian Europe." (Spencer (1976) pp. xi)
  6. ^ The Chamber of Commerce of Marseilles complained in a memoir in 1783: "Everything announces that this trade will one day imperceptibly be of some consideration, because the country has by itself a capital fund which has given the awakening to the peoples who live there, and that nothing is so common today, to see Algerians and Jews domiciled in Algiers coming to Marseilles to bring us the products of this kingdom." (Kaddache (2003) p. 538)
  7. ^ American consul in Algiers William Shaler would describe the Algerian regency's government as following: "The merits of this government have been proved by its continuance, with few variations in it forms of administration, for three centuries. It is in fact a military republic with a chief elective for life, and upon a small scale resembling that of the Roman Empire after the death of Commodus. This government ostensibly consists of a sovereign chief, who is termed the Dey of Algiers, and a Divan, or great Council, indefinite in point of number, which is composed of the ancient military who are or have been commanders of corps. The divan elects the Deys, and deliberates upon such affairs as he chooses to lay before them." (Shaler (1826) p. 16)
  8. ^ Ottoman Algerian dignitary Hamdan Khodja recalls: "The old officials who had completed their work were always repeating to their young successors: “We are foreigners. We did not obtain the submission of this people and the possession of this land by force and sword; Rather, thanks to kindness and leniency, we have become leaders !!! We were not statesmen in our country, and we did not obtain our titles and positions except on this land. Therefore, this country is our homeland, and our duty and interests require us to exert ourselves in contributing to the success and prosperity of this people. Just like we do it for ourselves.” (Khoja (2016) pp. 106-107)
  9. ^ (fol. 172a(L)-171b(R))
  10. ^ William Spencer writes: "Algiers' status in the Mediterranean world was merited by its contributions as well as the exploits of the corsairs. Through the medium of Regency government, Ottoman institutions brought stability to North Africa. The flow of Anatolian recruits and the attachment to the Porte introduced many elements of the eclectic Ottoman civilization into the western Mediterranean. Corsair campaigns produced a fusion of Ottoman with native Maghribi and European styles, social patterns, architecture, crafts, and the like. A regular system of revenue collection, an efficient subsistence agriculture, and a well-established legitimate commerce along with corsair profits brought to the Regency a high standard of living. Its lands, while they never corresponded to the total territory conquered by France and incorporated into French Algeria, were homogeneous, well managed, and formed of an effective and collaborating social mixture the exact opposite of the situation which prevailed during the one hundred and thirty years of French control." (Spencer (1976) pp. xi-xii)

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ Agoston 2009, p. 33.
  2. ^ Cathcart & Newkirk 1899, p. 94
  3. ^ Merouche 2007, p. 140.
  4. ^ Panzac 2005, p. 22.
  5. ^ Sluglett 2014, p. 68.
  6. ^ a b Somel 2010, p. 16.
  7. ^ McDougall 2017, p. 37,45.
  8. ^ a b Naylor 2015, p. 121.
  9. ^ a b c Ruedy 2005, p. 19.
  10. ^ a b Saidouni 2009, p. 195.
  11. ^ Al-Jilali 1994, p. 187.
  12. ^ McDougall 2017, p. 38.
  13. ^ a b Merouche 2007, p. 186.
  14. ^ De Tassy 1725, pp. 1, 3, 5, 7, 12, 15.
  15. ^ De Tassy 1725, p. 300 chap. XX.
  16. ^ a b Ghalem & Ramaoun 2000, p. 27.
  17. ^ Kaddache 1998, p. 3.
  18. ^ Panzac 1995, p. 62.
  19. ^ Koulakssis & Meynier 1987, pp. 7, 17.
  20. ^ a b c Merouche 2007, p. 139.
  21. ^ a b Merouche 2002, p. 10.
  22. ^ Al-Madani 1965, pp. 64–71.
  23. ^ a b Julien 1970, p. 275.
  24. ^ Julien 1970, pp. 275–276.
  25. ^ Pitcher 1972, p. 107.
  26. ^ Liang 2011, p. 142.
  27. ^ a b Julien 1970, p. 278.
  28. ^ a b Wolf 1979, p. 8.
  29. ^ Gaïd 2014, p. 39.
  30. ^ Kaddache 2003, p. 334.
  31. ^ Garcés 2002, pp. 21–22.
  32. ^ Al-Jilali 1994, p. 40.
  33. ^ Al-Madani 1965, p. 175.
  34. ^ Abun Nasr 1987, p. 149.
  35. ^ Hess 2011, p. 64.
  36. ^ Spencer 1976, p. 22.
  37. ^ a b c d Julien 1970, p. 280.
  38. ^ Khoja 2016, p. 79.
  39. ^ a b c Spencer 1976, pp. 21–22.
  40. ^ Kaddache 2003, p. 337.
  41. ^ a b Egilsson 2018, p. 18.
  42. ^ Seybold 1987, p. 472.
  43. ^ Mercier 1888, p. 19.
  44. ^ a b Garrot 1910, p. 362.
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