Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco

Between 1550 and 1795, there were a series of wars between the regency of Algiers and its allies—local sultanates or tribal confederations—and the Sherifian dynasties (Saadians and Alawites) that ruled Morocco. 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 (in 1520) was at the expense of the Zayyanids 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]

Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco
The troops of the regency of Algiers allied to the kingdom of Ait Abbes marching towards Oranie
Date 1550-1795 Location Morocco, Western Algeria Result Fixing of the boundaries between the two belligerents at the Wadi Kiss at (18th century)
Belligerents
Regency of Algiers Zayyanids (16th century) Ait Abbas	Saadi dynasty (1559 – 1660) Alaouite dynasty (1559 – 1795)

Notable battles

• Campaign of Tlemcen (1557)
• Battle of Moulouya (1691)
• Battle of Chelif (1701)

References

1. Boyer 1966, pp. 11–49.
2. Bellil 1999, p. 125. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFBellil1999 (help)
3. Chenntouf 1999, pp. 191–206.

Bibliography

• Bellil, Rachid (1999-01-01). Les oasis du Gourara (Sahara algérien) (in French). Peeters Publishers. ISBN 9789042907218.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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