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 "id": "event/saadi-attack-tlemcen-963",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "saadi-attack-tlemcen-963",
 "label": {
  "ar": "هجوم محمد الشيخ على تلمسان (٩٦٣هـ/١٥٥٦م)",
  "en": "the Sa'di attack on Tlemcen (963/1556)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "انتهز الشريف السعدي محمد الشيخ إبحار الأسطول العثماني إلى استانبول فأرسل جيوشه نحو تلمسان وقد كان رجالها انضموا إلى المجاهدين في محاولة استرجاع وهران، فدخلها على غفلة ووضع على رأسها القائد ابن غنام زعيم قبائل بني راشد، لكن الحامية العثمانية بقيادة محمود صفا بك صمدت حتى احتوى الهجوم {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 244}.",
  "en": "With the Ottoman fleet sailed for Istanbul, Muhammad al-Shaykh sent his armies on Tlemcen — whose men had joined the mujahidun in the attempt on Oran — and entered it unawares, setting over it the commander Ibn Ghannam, chief of Bani Rashid; but the Ottoman garrison under Mahmud Safa Bak held until the attack was contained {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 244}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "maghreb"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/gunpowder-empires"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1555.9983435662607,
  "latest": 1557.0004175307868
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1556",
   "hijri": "0963",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1556",
   "hijri": "0963",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "battle",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "1556",
    "hijri": "0963",
    "calendar": "gregorian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "sources": [
     "source/dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi"
    ]
   }
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الدولة العثمانية لعلي محمد الصلابي (ط1 1421) ص 244",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "model": "SWE-2 Medium",
   "run": "salabi-uthmani-batch12"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "دخول جيوش محمد الشيخ السعدي تلمسان على غفلة سنة ٩٦٣هـ {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 244}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الظرف",
     "markdown": "انتهز [[person/muhammad-al-shaykh-al-sadi|محمد الشيخ]] إبحار الأسطول العثماني إلى استانبول وانضمام رجال تلمسان إلى المجاهدين في محاولة استرجاع وهران، فدخل المدينة ووضع على رأسها القائد ابن غنام زعيم بني راشد {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 244}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الصمود",
     "markdown": "صمدت الحامية العثمانية بقيادة [[person/mahmud-safa-bak|محمود صفا بك]] في وجه السعديين حتى احتوى الهجوم {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 244}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/saadi-attack-tlemcen-963",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "The Sa'di army's surprise entry into Tlemcen in 963 AH {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 244}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The opportunity",
     "markdown": "[[person/muhammad-al-shaykh-al-sadi|Muhammad al-Shaykh]] seized the moment of the Ottoman fleet's sailing for Istanbul — with Tlemcen's men away with the mujahidun at Oran — entered the city, and set over it the commander Ibn Ghannam, chief of Bani Rashid {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 244}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The stand",
     "markdown": "The Ottoman garrison under [[person/mahmud-safa-bak|Mahmud Safa Bak]] held until the attack was contained {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 244}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/saadi-attack-tlemcen-963",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "963ھ میں محمد الشیخ سعدی کی فوج کا تلمسان میں اچانک داخلہ {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 244}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "موقع",
     "markdown": "[[person/muhammad-al-shaykh-al-sadi|محمد الشیخ]] نے عثمانی بیڑے کے استنبول روانہ ہونے اور تلمسان کے جوانوں کے مجاہدین کے ساتھ وهران مہم میں شریک ہونے کا فائدہ اٹھایا، شہر میں داخل ہوا اور بنی راشد کے سردار ابن غنام کو اس کا سپرد کرد کیا {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 244}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مزاحمت",
     "markdown": "[[person/mahmud-safa-bak|محمود صفا بک]] کی قیادت میں عثمانی حامہ ڈٹا رہا یہاں تک کہ حملہ روکا گیا {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 244}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/saadi-attack-tlemcen-963",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 6,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
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   "to": "person/muhammad-al-shaykh-al-sadi",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
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  },
  {
   "to": "person/mahmud-safa-bak",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "place/tlemcen",
   "type": "occurred_at",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi"
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  }
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  "person/mahmud-safa-bak",
  "person/muhammad-al-shaykh-al-sadi",
  "event/siege-of-tlemcen-699",
  "person/abd-al-malik-al-sadi",
  "person/abdallah-al-ghalib-al-sadi",
  "person/abu-hasun-al-wattasi",
  "person/abu-zayyan-ahmad",
  "person/ahmad-al-mansur-al-sadi"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}