Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and the Cherifian Dynasties

Algero-Chérifian conflicts
Date1550-1795
LocationMorocco
Result Fixing of the boundaries between the two belligerents at the Wadi Kiss at (18th century)
Belligerents
Regency of Algiers
Zianids(16th century)
Sultanate of Ait Abbas(16th century)		 Saadiens (1559 – 1660)
Alaouites(1559 – 1795)

Conflicts between the regency of Algiers and the Sherifian dynasties, or Algero-Chérifian conflicts,[1] were a series of wars between the regency of Algiers and its allies - local sultanates or tribal confederations - and the Cherifian dynasties - Saadians and Alawites - reigning over Morocco since the sixteenth century. The origins of these conflicts are multiple and overlapping. The state-owned enterprise of the regency of Algiers in the central Maghreb around Algiers as a new political center and its integration with the Ottoman Empire is at the expense of the Zianides of Tlemcen in the west. The latter in recurrent conflicts at the beginning of the sixteenth century with the regency on the one hand and the Spaniards on the other end up seeing their domain integrated with the regency.[1] Their weakening stirred the Saadian lusts and their claim on the western Algerian. If the regency of Algiers confirms its control over Tlemcen and Orania it does not have the means to launch long campaigns in the Saharan confines that it delegates to various tribal confederations like the Ouled Sidi Cheikh.[2] The Saadians blocked to the north by the Spanish Empire and the Regency of Algiers then find a South-Saharan outlet for the extension of their Empire. These conflicts and the resulting agreements foreshadow the borders and delimitations between the modern nation-states of the Maghreb.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 (Boyer 1966, pp. 11–49)
  2. ↑ (Bellil 1999, p. 125)
  3. ↑ (Chenntouf 1999, pp. 191–206)

Bibliography

  • Bellil, Rachid (1999-01-01). Les oasis du Gourara (Sahara algérien) (in French). Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042907218.
  • Cour, Auguste (2004-01-01). L'établissement des dynasties des Chérifs au Maroc et leur rivalité avec les Turcs de la Régence d'Alger: 1509-1830 (in French). Editions Bouchène. ISBN 9782912946782.
  • Boyer, Pierre (1966). "Contribution à l'étude de la politique religieuse des Turcs dans la Régence d'Alger (XVIe-XIXe siècles)". Revue de l'Occident musulman et de la Méditerranée (in French). 1 (1): 11–49. doi:10.3406/remmm.1966.910.
  • Bellil, Rachid (1999-01-01). Les oasis du Gourara (Sahara algérien) (in French). Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042907218. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  • Chenntouf, Tayeb (1999). La dynamique de la frontière au Maghreb. Des frontières en Afrique du XII au XX (Histoire et Perception) (in French). UNESCO.
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