Conquest of Tunis (1574)
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The conquest of Tunis in 1574 marked the conquest of Tunis by the Ottoman Empire over the Spanish Empire, which had seized the place a year earlier. The event virtually determined the supremacy in Nor
The Ottoman fleet attacking Tunis at La Goulette in 1574.
Ottoman troops (about 5,000 janissaries) and Kabyle troops, led by Uluç Ali, Pasha of Algiers, marching on Tunis in 1569
John of Austria attempted several times to relieve the siege, but in vain.
Koca Sinan Pasha, an Albanian Muslim, led the Ottoman capture of Tunis.
Ottoman Tunisia
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Ottoman Tunisia was a semi-autonomous territory of the Ottoman Empire. It existed from the 16th to the 19th century and was located roughly in present-day Tunisia.
Conquest of Tunis (1574)
…After the truce, Ottoman-Spanish hostilities resumed in 1591, even if they would not reach the magnitude of yesteryear. Ottoman Tunisia Siege of Castelnuovo…
Aruj (c.1474–1518), the elder Barbarossa
Khayr al-Din (Hayreddin) Pasha (c.1483–1546), the younger Barbarossa