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Salim al-Tumi

سالم التؤمي

1516 CE · 922 AH

Salim al-Tumi — ruler of Algiers whose power rested on Spanish backing, in al-Salabi's account; he besieged the Barbarossa brothers at Jijel, and when Aruj entered Algiers with Ottoman support in 1516 he was killed on proof of his appeals for Spanish troops 1.

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Ruler
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Maghreb
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: 'Abd al-Barr Ibn al-Shihna · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian · Abu al-Su'ud Afandi

Summary

Ruler of Algiers at the start of the sixteenth century whose power, in al-Salabi's words, rested on Spanish backing 1.

The end

He besieged the brothers Aruj and Khayr al-Din at Jijel; then Aruj entered Algiers with Ottoman support and killed him on proof of his appeals for Spanish troops, in 1516 1.

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Ruler of
Algiers
Opposed
عروج بربروسة

People and things also explored

Aruj Barbarossa enters Algiers (1516)· خير الدين بربروسة· 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

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 210
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Aruj Barbarossa enters Algiers (1516)

After failing at Bougie and being trapped at Jijel between the Hafsids and Salim al-Tumi, Aruj entered Algiers with Ottoman support, killed its ruler on proof of his dealings with Spain, and took Cherchell — in the same 1516 that saw Marj Dabiq.