Back الفتح العثماني لتونس 1574 Arabic Tunisin fəthi (1574) Azerbaijani تونوس اۇن آلینماسی (۱۵۷۴) AZB Conquista de Túnez (1574) Spanish فتح تونس (۱۵۷۴) Persian Conquête de Tunis (1574) French כיבוש תוניס (1574) HE Tunisz elfoglalása (1574) Hungarian Pertempuran Tunis (1574) ID Conquista di Tunisi (1574) Italian
| Conquest of Tunis | |||||||||
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| Part of the Ottoman-Habsburg wars | |||||||||
&sq=Sri Lanka&lang=en&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 |
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| 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]