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- The Gunpowder Empires
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- Maghreb
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Summary
Aruj Barbarossa's entry into Algiers in 922/1516, in the very year the Mamluks fell before the Ottomans at Marj Dabiq 1.
Before the entry
The brothers Aruj and Khayr al-Din had failed at Bougie and were trapped at Jijel between the Hafsids and Salim al-Tumi, the Spanish-backed ruler of Algiers. Al-Salabi holds the more probable view that contact with the Ottomans predated Aruj's death and the conquest of Syria and Egypt — and that it was the arriving Ottoman support which let the brothers reach Algiers before the Spanish could, for the site's excellence 1.
The entry
Aruj entered Algiers, killed its ruler on proof of his appeals for Spanish troops, took the port of Cherchell, and the city was his 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- عروج بربروسة
- Occurred at
- Algiers
People and things also explored
خير الدين بربروسة· Salim al-Tumi· Charles V's Algiers expedition (1541)· Algiers enters Ottoman sovereignty (1519)· Capture of the Peñón of Algiers (1529)· End of the beylerbey system in Algiers (995/1587)· The French Occupation of Algiers· Uluj Ali's bid to annex Morocco (989/1581)
Sources
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 210
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Aruj Barbarossa enters Algiers (1516)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/capture-of-algiers-1516/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.