The Ottoman sailor Piri Reis is considered one of the most outstanding Muslim scholars in sea arts and geography in the Modern era and more specifically in the Sixteenth century when the major geographical discoveries ...

Among the surviving German-language accounts of captivity, the story of the fate of two young Augsburg artists, the Wolfgang brothers, taken captive by Algerian corsairs on their way back from England and brought to Algiers ...

This study approaches the issue of Algerian-Ottoman relations and the emergence of the modern Algerian state (1516-1830), and is based on the historical and geopolitical data that allowed Algeria to be a full political ...

The North African coast witnessed an unprecedented urban development during the early Ottoman period as a result of the exodus of a large number of Andalusians refugees. Many maritime cities expanded after their liberation ...

In June 1687, an Algerian sailor and four European prisoners met in the North Sea: a French clergyman, two German brothers and the captain of the Oranjeboom. The sailor, Mahamat, was on board one of the six privateers ...

This study pays special attention to the fate of the last members of the Hafsid dynasty, which ruled Tunisia from 1229 to the mid-16th century, at a time when it was part of the conflict between the Spanish Monarchy and ...

The aim of this study is to shed light on two almost unknown ancient sites in the city of Algiers: one of them is a harbour basin designated by archaeologists as Cothon, and which was created by the Phoenicians when they ...