Résumé:
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 entity with an international presence through the alliance between local forces (tribes, zaouias, influential local figures) and the Ottoman power represented by its maritime force led by the Barbarossa brothers.
Such an approach imposes a thorough review of French colonial historical theses and those developed by Algerian authors influenced by the colonial perception denying the existence of a modern Algerian state allied to the Ottoman power. This is a long term historical battle whose goal is the restoration of the damaged Algerian historical memory.
On this basis, this contribution proposes keys to renew the approach of the determining factors of the pre-colonial Algerian state and the nature of its relations with the Ottoman state as an ally in the fight against the enemy forces in the Western Mediterranean, and by analysing the reality of the Algerian military institution and the system of government in Algeria before the French colonization and the relationship of the Beylik administration with local populations, and by proposing a new approach to international conjunctures determining Algeria’s relations with European states that led to a strategic alliance with the Ottoman power.
