At a glance
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
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In time
In space
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Summary
Ottoman Algiers shifts from the beylerbey system to the pasha system, 995/1587 1.
The end and the reason
With Uluj Ali's death ended the beylerbey system that had made Algiers' governors near-sovereigns; it was replaced by the pasha system as in Tunis and Tripoli — a salaried pasha sent from Istanbul for three years with no local base. Al-Salabi explains the change as the sultan's fear that strong beylerbeys, with the navy weakened, would drift toward independence 1.
Context
After Lepanto (978/1571) Ottoman North Africa split from a single beylerbey at Algiers into three ordinary wilayas — Tripoli, Tunis and Algiers; and after 997/1588 the soldiers and seamen overshadowed the pashas' authority, though the khutba in the sultan's name, the annual money and acceptance of Istanbul's pasha remained the marks of Ottoman sovereignty 2.
Connections
- Occurred at
- Algiers
- Had participant
- Kılıç Ali Pasha
People and things also explored
Uluj Ali's bid to annex Morocco (989/1581)· Hasan Veneziano· Charles V's Algiers expedition (1541)· Algiers enters Ottoman sovereignty (1519)· Aruj Barbarossa enters Algiers (1516)· Capture of the Peñón of Algiers (1529)· The French Occupation of Algiers· Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Sources
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 272-273
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 273
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “End of the beylerbey system in Algiers (995/1587)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/end-beylerbey-algiers-995/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.