Conquest of Tunis (1574)

Conquest of Tunis
Part of the Ottoman-Habsburg wars

The Ottoman fleet attacking Tunis at La Goulette in 1574.
Date12 July – 13 September 1574[1]
Location
Result Ottoman victory
Territorial
changes
Ottomans capture Tunis
Belligerents
Spain Spanish Empire Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Spain 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
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]

  1. ^ a b c Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1984). The Papacy and the Levant, 1204–1571: Vol.IV. Philadelphia.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Garcés, p.222 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b The new Cambridge modern history R. B. Wernham, p.354
  4. ^ 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]

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