Algerian-Sherifian_conflicts
Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco
Overview of the conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco
Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and the Cherifian dynasties or Algerian-Sherifian conflicts[1] opposed Morocco to the Ottoman Empire and its dependencies in a series of wars between the Regency of Algiers and its allied local sultanates and tribal confederations, and on the other hand, the Sharifian Saadian and Alawite dynasties that had ruled Morocco since the 16th century.
The origins of these conflicts are multiple and overlapping. The integration into the Ottoman Empire of the state-owned enterprise of the Regency of Algiers in the central Maghreb as a new political center integrated in 1520 into the Ottoman Empire was at the expense of the Zayyanids of Tlemcen to its west. Recurrent conflicts at the beginning of the sixteenth century with the Regency on the one hand and the Spaniards on the other saw Tlemcem absorbed into the Regency.[1] Their weakening stirred Saadian lusts. Although the Regency of Algiers confirmed its control over Tlemcen and Orania, it did not have the means to launch the.long campaigns in the Sahara that it delegated to various tribal confederations like the Ouled Sidi Cheikh.[2] The Saadians were blocked to the north by the Spanish Empire but the Regency of Algiers then found a South-Saharan outlet for the expansion of their Empire.
These conflicts and resulting agreements foreshadowed the borders and delimitations between the modern nation-states of the Maghreb.[3]