Back غزو تونس (1535) Arabic Tunisin fəthi (1535) Azerbaijani تونوس اۇن آلینماسی (۱۵۳۵) AZB Война за Тунис Bulgarian Jornada de Tunis Catalan Tunisfeldzug German Jornada de Túnez Spanish Conquête de Tunis (1535) French כיבוש תוניס (1535) HE Penaklukan Tunis (1535) ID
| Conquest of Tunis | |||||||||
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| Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars and the Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts Ottoman-Maltese wars | |||||||||
&sq=Sanctions against Russia&lang=en&file=File:Battle_of_Tunis_1535_Attack_on_Goletta.jpg) Attack on La Goletta, with Tunis in the background &sq=Sanctions against Russia&lang=en&file=File:Charles_quint_a_tunis.png) Entry of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, into Tunis in 1535 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Kingdom of Portugal Papal States Republic of Genoa  Knights of Malta |
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Charles V Andrea Doria Alfonso d'Avalos Álvaro de Bazán García de Toledo Duke of Alba Duke of Beja | Hayreddin Barbarossa | ||||||||
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Total men: 30,000–60,000
Total ships: 398 207 ships[4] 10 galleys 6 galleys 19 galleys Kingdom of Portugal 1 galleon, 2 carracks, 20 round caravels, 8 galleys 8 galleys 1 carrack, 4 galleys 60 hulks |
82 warships[5] 2 galleys[6] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown: Many fell to dysentery[citation needed] |
30,000 Muslim civilians killed 9,000 Christians freed | ||||||||
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The conquest of Tunis occurred in 1535 when the Habsburg Emperor Charles V and his allies wrestled the city away from the control of the Ottoman Empire.[7]
- ^ Roger Crowley, Empires of the Sea, faber and faber 2008 p. 61
- ^ History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey Ezel Kural Shaw
- ^ José Augusto Amaro Pissarra: O galeão S. João (c. 1530–1551). Dados para uma monografia, Cascais, 1999, p. 195
- ^ 15 galleys of the Mediterranean Squadron, 42 ships of the Cantabrian fleet, 150 ships of the Málaga Squadron
- ^ Crowley, p. 61
- ^ Garnier, p. 96
- ^ Bruce Ware Allen, "Emperor vs. Pirate Tunis, 1535." MHQ: Quarterly Journal of Military History (Winter 2014) 26#2 pp 58–63.
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