Conquest of Tunis (1574)

Conquest of Tunis
	Part of Spanish–Ottoman wars
	; The Ottoman fleet attacking Tunis at La Goulette in 1574.
Date	12 July – 13 September 1574
Location	Tunis
Result	Ottoman victory
Territorial; changes	Ottomans capture Tunis
Belligerents
Spanish Empire	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Gabrio Serbelloni (POW)	Occhiali; Koca Sinan Pasha
Strength
Total men: 7,000	250–300 warships; Total men: 100,000
Casualties and losses
6,700 killed; 300 prisoners	25,000; (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,^[4] sealing the Ottoman domination over eastern and central Maghreb,^[5] with the Ottoman dependencies in Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli ensuingly coming to experience a golden age as corsair states.^[4]

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