Tripolitanian civil war
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Map of the Tripolitania Eyalet in 1795. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Tripolitania Eyalet |
Karamanli dynasty Beylik of Tunis | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ali Pasha |
Yusuf Karamanli Hammuda ibn Ali Moustapha Khodja |
The Tripolitanian civil war was a conflict from 1793 to 1795 which occurred in what is today the country of Libya.
The war[]
Ali Pasha was an Ottoman officer. He was a slave in Algiers before rising through the ranks. In 1793 he entered Tripolitania through a ship. He couped the ruling , the ruler of Tripolitania, who had ruled since the end of the corrupt and ineffective rule of Ali I in 1793. With the support of some locals, he defeated the guards of Hamet, and declared the reincorporation of Tripolitania into the Ottoman Empire, and himself the legitimate Pasha of Tripoli. He then proceeded to loot Tripoli, which caused a rebellion in the city.[2] Hamet and his brother Yusuf returned to Tripoli with the aid of the Bey of Tunis and the rebels, and took control of the throne.[3]
Aftermath[]
Following the end of the war, was initially returned to the throne, ruling again as Ahmad II Pasha from 20 January 1795 until 11 June 1795, when Hamza Yusuf deposed him, seized the throne, and sent Hamet into exile. Hamet later tried unsuccessfully to return and seize the throne with American support in the Battle of Derne during the First Barbary War.
References[]
- ^ "Timeline". Retrieved 20 April 2014.
- ^ ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jabartī (1994). Abd Al-Rahmann Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt. Franz Steiner.
- ^ St John, Ronald Bruce (2002). Libya and the United States: two centuries of strife. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 20. ISBN 0-8122-3672-6. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
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