⌂ Atlas ☰ Read as a page The thread: How did the household of a Corsican slave, set up to tax the countryside, come to choose the rulers of Tunis?
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Key

The deys and the militia The beys and their household Regency of Algiers The Ottoman Empire and its sultan England bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Ibn Abi Dinar, al-Mu'nis (written c. 1681), French translation by E. Pellissier and Rémusat, Histoire de l'Afrique (1845), books VII–VIII: the deys and the beys from the 1590s to the 1660s — source
  2. A. Rousseau, Annales tunisiennes (1864), pp. 41–52, after the chronicler al-Wazir al-Sarraj: dates of the deys, the 1628 war and treaty, Hammuda's horsemen and pasha rank — source
  3. M.-E. A. Ben Achour, 'Aux origines de l'État beylical : la dynastie mouradite', Leaders (2020) — source
  4. K. Ben Salah, 'Murad Bey e Murad Dey, la storia di due rinnegati italiani', Dialoghi Mediterranei 54 (2022) — source
  5. Uthman Dey — Wikipedia (sole power from 1598, the bey's office, the Moriscos) — source
  6. Yusuf Dey — Wikipedia (choice of Murad, the Ottoman-style mosque) — source
  7. Mourad Bey — Wikipédia (Corsican origin, Ramadan's son-in-law, bey 1613, pasha 1631) — source
  8. Usta Murad — Wikipedia (galley command 1615, accession 1637, Porto Farina) — source
  9. Mami Ferrarese — Wikipedia (Italian) — source
  10. Hammuda Pasha Bey — Wikipedia (reign, horsemen, pasha rank) — source
  11. Guerre algéro-tunisienne de 1628 — Wikipédia (the Ben Chennouf, Es-Settara, the treaty) — source
  12. Action of 14 April 1655 — Wikipedia (Blake at Porto Farina) — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Tunis, 1600–1660

How did the household of a Corsican slave, set up to tax the countryside, come to choose the rulers of Tunis?
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