Conquest of Tunis (1574)

Conquest of Tunis
	Part of the Ottoman-Habsburg 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; Cığalazade Yusuf 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,^[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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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^ ^a ^b The new Cambridge modern history R. B. Wernham, p.354
^ 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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[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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