Establishment

Ottoman Algeria in 1560.

From 1496, the Spanish conquered numerous possessions on the North African coast, which had been
captured since 1496: Melilla (1496), Mers El Kébir (1505), Oran (1509), Bougie (1510), Tripoli (1510),
Algiers, Shershell, Dellys, and Tenes.[16]

Around the same time, the Ottoman privateer brothers Oruç and Hayreddin—both known to Europeans as
Barbarossa, or "Red Beard"—were operating successfully off Tunisia under the Hafsids. In 1516, Oruç
moved his base of operations to Algiers and asked for the protection of the Ottoman Empire in 1517, but
was killed in 1518 during his invasion of the Kingdom of Tlemcen. Hayreddin succeeded him as military
commander of Algiers.[17]

Occupation of Algiers

Barbarossa was the founder of the Regency of Algiers.

Oruç, Hayreddin Barbarossa's brother, captured Algiers in 1516, apart from the Spanish Peñón of Algiers.
Following the death of Oruç in 1518 at the hand of the Spanish in the Fall of Tlemcen, Barbarossa
requested the assistance of the Ottoman Empire, in exchange for acknowledging Ottoman authority in his
dominions.[18] Before Ottoman help could arrive, the Spanish retook the city of Algiers in 1519.
Barbarossa recaptured the city definitively in 1525, and in 1529 the Spanish Peñon in the capture of
Algiers.[18]