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The Beylik of Tunis (Arabic: بايلك تونس) was a de facto independent state located in present-day Tunisia, formally part of the Ottoman Empire. [1] It was ruled by the Husainid dynasty from 1705 until the establishment of the French protectorate of Tunisia in 1881. The term beylik refers to the monarch, who was called the Bey of Tunis ...
In 1881, following a French invasion and occupation, the Treaty of Bardo was signed and Tunisia came under the control of France as a protectorate. [8] Following independence from France on 20 March 1956, the Bey Muhammad VIII al-Amin assumed the title of King and reigned as such until the Prime Minister Habib Bourguiba deposed the dynasty and ...
This is a list of the beys of Tunis who ruled Tunisia from 1613, when the Corsican-origin Muradid dynasty came to power, [1] until 1957, when the Cretan-origin Husainid monarchy was abolished. [ 2 ] Muradid dynasty (1613–1702)
War broke out between the Beylik of Tunis and the Republic of Venice after a Venetian-flagged merchant ship laden with goods from the Barbary coast was burned by the authorities in Malta due to it being infected with the plague. The Bey of Tunis demanded compensation, but received none, and his demands for an increased annual payment went unheeded.
Ali II ibn Hussein (24 November 1712 – 26 May 1782) [1] or Ali Pacha Bey II [2] (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي باي) was the fourth [3] leader of the Husainid dynasty and the ruler of Tunisia from 1759 until his death in 1782. He was the son of Al-Husayn I ibn Ali.
Muhammad V an-Nasir (Arabic: محمد الخامس الناصر), commonly known as Naceur Bey (Arabic: الناصر باي ; 14 July 1855 in La Marsa – 8 July 1922 in La Marsa) [1] was the son of Muhammad II ibn al-Husayn and the fifteenth Husainid Bey of Tunis, ruling from 1906 until his death. [2]
In 1694 Dey Hadj Chabane invaded Tunisia with the help of a pretender called Mohammed ben Cheker. [7] The resulting war ended in the total annexation of Tunis for several months. During that time Chaabane appointed ben Cheker as the Bey of Tunis, a new Beylik of Algiers similarly functioning in the same way as the Beylik of Constantine.
In 1699 Tunisian troops reinforced with Tripolitanian ones invaded the Beylik of Constantine, at the same time as the Moroccan ones invaded western Algeria. The Tunisian army was commanded by Murad III Bey, and his commander Ibrahim Sharif. [3] [4] The Tunisians quickly advanced into the Algerian territory, capturing key points such as Annaba.