| Conquest of Tunis | |||||||||
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| Part of the Ottoman-Habsburg wars | |||||||||
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Tunes_urbs_-_under_siege_1574.jpg) The Ottoman fleet attacking Tunis at La Goulette in 1574. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Spanish Empire |
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Fictitious_Ottoman_flag_2.svg){kind=small} Ottoman Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Gabrio Serbelloni (POW) |
Occhiali[1] Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha[1] | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Total men: 7,000 |
250–300 warships Total men: 100,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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6,700 killed 300 prisoners |
25,000[2] (Spanish claim) | ||||||||
The conquest of Tunis in 1574 marked the conquest of Tunis by the Ottoman Empire over the Spanish Empire, which had seized the place a year earlier. The event virtually determined the supremacy in North Africa vied between both empires in favour of the former,[3] sealing the Ottoman domination over eastern and central Maghreb,[4] with the Ottoman dependencies in Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli ensuingly coming to experience a golden age as corsair states.[3]
- ^ a b c Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1984). The Papacy and the Levant, 1204–1571: Vol.IV. Philadelphia.
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- ^ The Regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777–1814: Army and Government of a North-African Ottoman Eyâlet at the End of the Eighteenth Century by Asma Moalla, Routledge, 2004 ISBN 0-415-29781-8, p.3 [1]