Algiers

The Regency of Algiers was an Ottoman frontier state based at Algiers in the Maghreb. In 1337 the Zayyanids of Tlemcen faced the Marinids in the central Maghreb.

The corsair brothers Aruj and Hayreddin seized Algiers in 1516. Aruj was killed by the Spanish near Tlemcen in 1518, and Hayreddin pledged allegiance to the Ottomans in 1519. After a Janissary coup in 1659, Algiers chose its rulers through its own council. Dey Hussein’s dispute with the French consul in 1827 led to a blockade and the French capture of Algiers in 1830; Ahmed Bey at Constantine and Emir Abdelkader in the west continued resistance.