Salah Rais

Not to be confused with Hacı Salih Pasha, the Turkish Grand Admiral of the Ottoman fleet in the early 19th century.
In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Salih, the title is Reis (military rank), and there is no family name.

Salah Rais
7th King of Algiers
Reign1552–1556
PredecessorHasan Pasha
SuccessorMuhammad Kurdogli
Bornc. 1488 Egypt
Diedc. 1568
Algiers, Algeria
Issue
KingdomAlgiers
ReligionIslam

Salah Rais (Arabic: صالح ريس) (c. 1488 – 1568) was the 7th King of Algiers,[1] an Ottoman privateer and admiral. He is alternatively referred to as Sala Reis, Salih Rais, Salek Rais and Cale Arraez in several European sources, particularly in Spain, France and Italy.[2]

In 1529, together with Aydın Reis, he took part in the Turkish-Spanish battle near the Isle of Formentera, during which the Ottoman forces destroyed the Spanish fleet, whose commander, Rodrigo de Portuondo [es], died in combat.

In 1538 he commanded the right wing of the Turkish fleet at the naval Battle of Preveza, where the Ottoman forces under Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha defeated the Holy League of Charles V under the command of Andrea Doria.

In 1551, due to his success in the conquest of Tripoli (Libya) together with Turgut Reis and Sinan Pasha, he was promoted to the rank of Pasha and became the Beylerbeyi (Ottoman equivalent of Grand Duke) of Algiers and the Bahriye Beylerbeyi (Admiral) of the Ottoman West Mediterranean Fleet.

  1. ^ de Haëdo, Diego (1998). History of the Kings of Algiers. France: Bouchène. pp. 97–109. ISBN 978-2-912946-04-1.
  2. ^ Bono, Salvatore: Corsari nel Mediterraneo (Corsairs in the Mediterranean), Oscar Storia Mondadori. Perugia, 1993.