Regency of Algiers
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regency-of-algiers-224-558601
title:
Regency of Algiers
text:
The Regency of Algiers was a largely independent early modern Ottoman tributary state on the Barbary Coast of North Africa between 1516 and 1830. Founded by the privateer brothers Aruj and Hayreddin Barbarossa, also known as Oruç and Khayr ad-Din, the Regency began as an infamous and formidable pirate base that plundered and waged maritime holy war on European Christian powers. Ottoman regents ruled as heads of a stratocracy; an autonomous military government controlled by the janissary corps, t
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description:
1516–1830 autonomous Ottoman state in North Africa
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regency_of_Algiers
date created:
2005-10-06T01:23:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T15:31:10Z
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