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Hasan Corso

حسن قورصو

Named beylerbey of Algiers by sultanic order while the commander Yahya was already sailing on Oran to carry out Salih Reis's plan; he took over the siege that failed to take the city for Spain's continuous relief, in 963/1556. He met his death in 964/1557, whereupon the sultan returned Hasan b. Khayr al-Din to Algiers 1.

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Roles
military · Ruler
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Maghreb
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian · Abu al-Su'ud Afandi · Abu Numayy II, sharif of Mecca · Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti

Summary

Beylerbey of Algiers by sultanic appointment, 963/1556 2.

Appointed at sea

The order naming him reached the fleet while the commander Yahya was already sailing on Oran to carry out Salih Reis's plan; Hasan took over the siege, which failed to take the city for Spain's continuous relief 2.

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Ruled over
Algiers
Successor of
Salih Reis
Participated in
Siege of Oran (963/1556)

People and things also explored

Salih Reis· Hasan b. Khayr al-Din Barbarossa· Muhammad b. Salih Reis· Siege of Oran (963/1556)· Algiers· Charles V's Algiers expedition (1541)· Algiers enters Ottoman sovereignty (1519)· Ottoman entry into Fez (964/1554)

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 244-245
  2. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 244
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Salih Reis

Beylerbey of Algiers from Safar 960/January 1552. Internally he sought complete unity of all Algeria, the Sahara included, to be free for al-Andalus; externally to expel Spain, fence off Sa'di trouble, and proclaim general jihad toward al-Andalus. Backing the Wattasid Bu Hasun, Ottoman forces entered Fez 3 Safar 961/8 January 1554 (the printed text reads 964) and the Porte declared Morocco annexed; in four months there he recovered Badis from Spain and tried replacing Bu Hasun with the Idrisi sharif Mawlay Bu Bakr before the people's rising forced him back under Ottoman suzerainty terms. When Ottoman intelligence uncovered the Sa'di-Spanish plot, Süleyman sent forty ships and ordered Oran attacked; Salih readied seventy ships and forty thousand men, but died of plague in Rajab 963/1556, aged seventy.