Divan
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A divan or diwan was a high government ministry in various Islamic states, or its chief official.
Audience in the Diwan-i-Khas granted to the French ambassador, the vicomte d'Andrezel by Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III, 10 October 1724, in a contemporary painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour.
The winter Diwan of a Mughal Nawab (painting from 1812)
Regency of Algiers
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The Regency of Algiers was an early modern semi-independent Ottoman province and nominal vassal state on the Barbary Coast of North Africa from 1516 to 1830. Founded by the privateer brothers Aruj and
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…apparently partly copied in provincial centres as well. Following the Ottoman conquest of North Africa, the Maghreb was divided into three provinces, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. After 1565, administrative authority in Tripoli was vested in a Pasha directly appointed by the Sultan in Constantinople. The…
Aruj Reis, Sultan of Algiers, 1590s. University of Heidelberg library.
Hayreddin Reis, first Beylerbey of Algiers. University of Heidelberg library.
Barbary state of Algeria within the Ottoman Empire (in white) during the Ottoman-Habsburg wars in 1560, The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923.
Mid-16th century Ottoman Algerian (yellow) attacks against Saadians (green).