Mohamed Bektach

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Mohamed Bektach
Dey of Algiers
9th Dey of Algiers
Reign4 March 1707 – 22 March 1710
Predecessor Hussein Khodja Dey
Successor Dely Ibrahim Dey
Died22 March 1710 (1710-03-23)
Flag of Algiers.jpg Algiers, Regency of Algiers
Country Flag of Algiers.jpg Regency of Algiers
Religion Islam
Occupation Janissary then Dey
Military career
Battles / wars Siege of Oran (1707–1708)

Mohamed Bektach was the 9th ruler and Dey of Algiers. He ruled three years after his predecessor Hussein Khodja Dey.

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Rule

Early career

After the deposit of Hussein khodja Dey after late payment. Who was boarding for Bougie, 4 Turks that he banned one year before the events as conspirators, were enough to begin a revolution. One of them, the Janissary Mohamed Bektach who succeeded him exiled Hussein and along with his nephew and Hazinedar to Dellys who would die there of an Anthrax. [1]

Siege of Oran

Only a few months after his election, the Dey sent an army led by his Brother-in-Law, Ouzoun Hassan, [2] to retake the city of Oran. After the success of the Algerians, Hassan placed the Bey of Mascara Mustapha Bouchelaghem as governor of Oran, and returning victoriously to Algiers with 2,000 Christian captives, among them 200 officers and an important amount of French and Maltese voluntarys. [3] And was celebrated in honor of Hassan, as he also sent to the Sultan of Constantinople. [4]

Death

Despite the privilege he had after the reconquest of Oran, and the besiege that the janissaries did to the poor city, the financial crisis that Algiers suffered would lead to the triggering of a revolt of the janissaries. Bektach and Hassan will be massacred and their murderer will be named as successor. [5]

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References

  1. Grammont, H. D. de (1887). Histoire d'Alger sous la domination turque (1515-1830) (in French). E. Leroux.
  2. Péchot, L. (1914). Histoire de l'Afrique du Nord avant 1830: précédée de la géographie physique et politique de la Tunisie, de l'Algérie et du Maroc (in French). Gojosso.
  3. Garrot, Henri (1910). Histoire générale de l'Algérie (in French). Impr. P. Crescenzo.
  4. Péchot, L. (1914). Histoire de l'Afrique du Nord avant 1830: précédée de la géographie physique et politique de la Tunisie, de l'Algérie et du Maroc (in French). Gojosso.
  5. Péchot, L. (1914). Histoire de l'Afrique du Nord avant 1830: précédée de la géographie physique et politique de la Tunisie, de l'Algérie et du Maroc (in French). Gojosso.