| Ibrahim Ben Ramdan | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dey of Algiers | |||||
| 14th Dey of Algiers | |||||
| Reign | 3 September 1732 – 11 December 1745 | ||||
| Predecessor | Baba Abdi | ||||
| Successor | Ibrahim Kouchouk | ||||
| Born | Ibrahim ben Ramdan | ||||
| Died | 1745 Algiers, Regency of Algiers | ||||
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| Country | Regency of Algiers | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
| Occupation | Hazinedar then Dey | ||||
| Military career | |||||
| Battles / wars | Spanish conquest of Oran (1732) Capture of Tunis (1735) | ||||
Ibrahim ben Ramdan or Baba Ibrahim was the 14th ruler and Dey of Algiers. He ruled 15 years after his predecessor Baba Abdi.
He was Khaznadar (treasurer) under the previous dey, Baba Abdi. [1]
He was elected Dey on 3 September 1732.
His reign started off with a decisive defeat at the hands of the Spain during the Siege of Oran in 1732. This defeat led to the loss of the strategic city of Oran and Mers El Kébir, and Spain gaining a foothold in Algeria. [2]
He gained a victory over the Beylik of Tunis during the Algerian-Tunisian war of 1735, securing the annual payment of 50,000 Piastres.
He abdicated in 1745, citing old age. His nephew, Ibrahim Kouchouk was elected as the next dey. [3]
Mers El Kébir is a port on the Mediterranean Sea, near Oran in Oran Province, northwest Algeria. It is famous for the attack on the French fleet in 1940, in the Second World War.
The Regency of Algiers was a largely independent early modern Ottoman tributary state on the Barbary Coast of North Africa from 1516 to 1830. Founded by the privateer brothers Aruj and Hayreddin Reis, also known as Oruç and Khayr ad-Din, the Regency succeeded the crumbling Kingdom of Tlemcen as an infamous and formidable pirate base that plundered and waged maritime holy war on European Christian powers. Ottoman regents ruled as heads of a stratocracy; an autonomous military government controlled by the janissary corps, themed Garp ocaklarılit. 'Western Garrison' in Ottoman terminology.
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Hamidou ben Ali, known as Raïs Hamidou, or Amidon in American literature, born around 1770, and died on June 17, 1815, near Cape Gata off the coast of southern Spain, was an Algerian corsair. He captured up to 200 ships during his career. Hamidou ensured the prosperity of the Deylik of Algiers, and gave it its last glory before the French invasion. His biography is relatively well known because the French archivist Albert Devoulx found documents that told of this charismatic character.
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