Bijaya

Bijaya was a Hafsid appanage centred on the port of Béjaïa in Kabylia. In 1337 it was a family governorship under Tunis, after Abu Yahya Abu Bakr II reunited the Hafsid realm.

The princes of Béjaïa repeatedly established a separate kingdom. In 1510 Pedro Navarro took the city for Spain from Sultan Abdelaziz; his brother Abu Bakr tried to retake it from Constantine in 1512. Salah Raïs expelled the Spanish in 1555 with Kabyle help, and Béjaïa passed to the Regency of Algiers, remaining under the Beylik of Constantine until 1830.