Kuku

Kuku is a mountain settlement in Kabylia, inland from the Mediterranean coast of Algeria. In the early sixteenth century it gave its name to a principality led by Ahmed ben al-Qadi. After the Spanish capture of Béjaïa in 1510, the rulers of Kuku became important figures in the struggle for power in the region. Ahmed occupied Algiers for several years before the return of Ottoman forces under Hayreddin Barbarossa.