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- The Gunpowder Empires
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- Maghreb
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Summary
Algiers' formal entry under Ottoman sovereignty in 1519 — the first of the North African provinces 2.
The letter
At Khayr al-Din's order, the people of Algiers sent an embassy under the jurist Abu al-Abbas Ahmad b. Qadi to Sultan Selim I, bearing a letter dated early Dhu'l-Qa'da 925 (26 October – 3 November 1519) in the name of the city's qadis, khatibs, ulema, imams, merchants and notables — the document preserved in the Topkapı archive as no. 4656 and translated by Abd al-Jalil al-Tamimi 3.
The answer
Selim at once granted Khayr al-Din the rank of beylerbey, making him commander-in-chief of the province's armed forces as the sultan's representative, and sent artillery and two thousand Janissaries, permitting any of his subjects who wished to sail to Algiers with Janissary privileges. Selim's name entered the pulpits and the coinage. Al-Salabi stresses that the troops entered by the inhabitants' appeal, not as a conquest against their will 2.
Connections
- Had participant
- خير الدين بربروسة· السلطان سليم شاه بن عثمان· Abu al-Abbas Ahmad b. Qadi
- Occurred at
- Algiers
People and things also explored
Capture of the Peñón of Algiers (1529)· Hasan Agha al-Tushi· Hasan b. Khayr al-Din Barbarossa· Abu al-Abbas Ahmad b. Qadi· خير الدين بربروسة· السلطان سليم شاه بن عثمان· Algiers· Charles V's Algiers expedition (1541)
Sources
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 211-213
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 213
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 211-212
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islam.museum contributors. “Algiers enters Ottoman sovereignty (1519)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/algiers-joins-ottoman-1519/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.