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- The Gunpowder Empires
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- Maghreb
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Summary
King of Portugal in Khayr al-Din Barbarossa's day 1.
The consultation
When word reached him that the Ottoman fleet under Khayr al-Din had reached North Africa on 3 Rabi' I 941/13 September 1534, he sent a consultation to the nobles, notables and bishops of his realm: should Safi and Azemmour be left to the Moroccans, or held as fortresses? The clergy's answers were near-unanimous in advising abandonment of the southern posts — Santa Cruz, Safi, Azemmour — as worth far less than their cost, and the concentration of force on the northern positions and Ceuta's defences against a feared attack by Khayr al-Din 1.
Connections
- Opposed
- خير الدين بربروسة
- Participated in
- Sa'di capture of Santa Cruz (1541)
People and things also explored
Algiers enters Ottoman sovereignty (1519)· Capture of the Peñón of Algiers (1529)· Khayr al-Din takes Tunis (1534)· Charles V's conquest of Tunis (1535)· Ahmad al-A'raj al-Sa'di· Andrea Doria· Hasan Agha al-Tushi· Hasan b. Khayr al-Din Barbarossa
Sources
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 219
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “João III of Portugal”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/joao-iii-portugal/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.