Hasan Pasha (son of Barbarossa)

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Hasan Pasha
Bornc. 1517

Hasan Pasha (c. 1517 – 4 July 1572) was the son of Hayreddin Barbarossa and three-times Beylerbey of the Regency of Algiers.[1] His mother was a Moorish woman from Algiers.[2] He succeeded his father as ruler of Algiers, and replaced Barbarossa's deputy Hasan Agha, who had been effectively holding the position of ruler of Algiers since 1533.[3]

Ruler of Algiers

Hasan Pasha became ruler of Algiers when his father was called to Constantinople in 1545. Barbarossa died peacefully in the Ottoman capital in 1546.[3]

In June 1545, Hasan Pasha occupied the city of

Turgut Reis, who was nominated by Suleiman the Magnificent.[3]

Hasan Pasha again became ruler of Algiers and

Mohammed ash-Sheikh rejected cooperation with the Ottomans.[8]

Hasan Pasha was again named beylerbey of Algiers in June 1557, in order to continue the fight against the Moroccan ruler, who had formed an alliance with the Spanish against the Ottomans.

Mohammed ash-Sheikh assassinated in October 1557.[8]

Hasan Pasha invaded Morocco in early 1558, but he was stopped by the Moroccan north of

Fez at the Battle of Wadi al-Laban, and had to retreat upon hearing of Spanish preparations for an offensive from Oran.[8] He reembarked from the port of Qassasa in northern Morocco, and from there returned to Algiers to prepare a defense against the Spaniards.[8]

After the Ottoman victory in the

Expedition of Mostaganem (1558), Hasan Pasha was recalled again to Constantinople, apparently because of conflicts with his troops.[8]

He again became Beylerbey of Algiers in 1562, and led the unsuccessful Sieges of Oran and Mers El Kébir in 1563.[8]

Commander-in-Chief of the Ottoman Navy

In 1567, he was recalled to Istanbul and named,

Kapudan pasha or Commander-in-Chief, of the Ottoman Navy.[1]
like his father before him.

Hasan Pasha was at the Great Siege of Malta in 1565,[9] and Battle of Lepanto in 1571.[10] He died in Constantinople in 1572.[1]

See also

  • List of Pasha and Dey of Algiers
  • History of Ottoman Algeria

Notes

  1. ^ .
  2. ^ Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonial Algeria. P.199. Hugh Roberts Bloomsbury Publishing,
  3. ^ .
  4. ^ History of Islam: Classical period, 1206-1900 C.E Masudul Hasan
  5. ^ The Emperor Roger Bigelow Merriman
  6. ^ History of North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, from the Arab Conquest to 1830, Volume 2 Charles André Julien Routledge & K. Paul
  7. .
  8. ^ .
  9. ^ Russell 2021, p. 118.
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Preceded by
Pasha of Algiers

1545–1552
Succeeded by
Preceded by Pasha of Algiers
1557–1561
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1562–1566
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