| Hadj Ahmed | |
|---|---|
| Dey of Algiers | |
| 5th Dey of Algiers | |
| Reign | 14 August 1695 – c. 1698 |
| Predecessor | Hadj Ahmed Chabane |
| Successor | Hadj Chaouch |
| Died | 1698 Palace of the Jenina, Regency of Algiers |
| Country | Regency of Algiers |
| Religion | Islam |
| Occupation | Janissary then Dey |
Hadj Ahmed or Hadj Ahmed ben Hadj Massli was the 5th ruler and Dey of Algiers. He ruled two years after his predecessor Hadj Ahmed Chabane.
After the death of the dey Ahmed Chabane, the Divan of Algiers named multiple pretenders but were killed the same day by the Janissaries who couldn't agree who to elect. On August 6, the Janissaries were wandering in the streets as they found Hadj Ahmed in front of his house sewing slippers. They took the old pirate and placed him in the throne, as he was cheered by the divan. [1]
Hadj ahmed accepted the conditions imposed by the constitution of 1672, and ruled Algiers with an iron fist as he spread fear around the capital. The letters of the French diplomats M. Laurence and M. Lemaire depict him as a capricious, insecure and such a strange behavior similar to complete madness. He was so insecure, in fact, he filled the capital with spys, and he was paranoid even of the idea of going out the Jenina palace[fr] to go pray at the Mosque. As MM. Laurence wrote. [2]
I saw the reign of Trik, Baba-Hassan, Mezzomorto, Chaban, But none of them did what the Dey of today did: They all had some good qualities, instead of today's having none.... — MM. Laurence.
He died at the Palace of Jenina in 1698, of the plague that took the lives of 25,000-45,000 others. [3]
The Battle of Moulouya took place in May 1692 at a ford on the Moulouya river in Morocco. It was fought between the armies of the Alawi sultan Moulay Ismail and those of the Dey of Algiers Hadj Chabane.
Baba Ali Chaouch, also known as Ali Soukali, or simply Ali I, was a ruler of the Deylik of Algiers from 1710 to 1718. He was the first dey of Algiers to be invested with the title of dey-pacha. The Sultan Ahmed III had Ali Chaouch's envoy given the caftan and the three tails, a sign of the dignity of a "pasha". This title was attributed to all his successors until 1830.
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The Maghrebi war (1699–1702) was a conflict involving a Tunisian, Tripolitanian, and Moroccan coalition, and the Deylik of Algiers. It was an important milestone in the further weakening of the already fragile Ottoman grip over the Maghreb, as both sides utterly ignored the Ottoman sultan's pleas to sign a peace treaty. This war also led to the renewal of the Muradid infighting, which would later lead to the establishment of the Beylik of Tunis, and the Husainid dynasty in 1705.
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