Treaty between Algiers and Sweden (1729) was the first treaty between Sweden and the Regency of Algiers [1] dealt with the treatment of Swedish captives in Algeria, and tribute payments in return for special passes for Swedish merchant ships that granted them immunity from attack in the Mediterranean Sea. [1]
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Like other European countries, Sweden wanted to stop Algiers from attacking Swedish merchant ships and protect its economic security, and offered to sign a peace treaty with. with the 1729 treaty Algiers obtained a new financier for its fleet with marine construction materials and Sweden joined the countries paying taxes to Algiers. Following the example of the French, English and Dutch it also established a consulate in Algiers, its first Swedish in the Islamic world. [2]
A Scottish resident of Algiers named George Logie helped arrange the treaty and was the head negotiator [3] As the first Swedish consul in Algiers, he wrote in an October 13, 1738 letter to the Swedish Chamber of Commerce: "I can find no other way in which Algiers will be more useful to Sweden than by keeping the peace with it. Peace with Algiers gives our ships the freedom to sail safely to the Spanish and Portuguese shores as well as the rest of the Mediterranean ports" [4]
