The History of the Barbary Regencies

29 articles relating to the Barbary Regencies comprised of Algeria, Tunis(ia), and Tripoli-Libya (Tripolitania), which constituted a weighty segment of Ottoman history in the Western Mediterranean during the 16th-20th centuries, have been collected in this publication of IRCICA. The articles are in Turkish (20), English (6), French (2), and Arabic (1), grouped under the following headings: Sources and Historical Debates; Military Power, Navy and Piracy; Diplomacy, Europeans; Administration, Economy, and Socio-Cultural Structure. Thanks to advances of research on the history of the Western Regencies, it has become possible to re-evaluate the Ottoman Empire's relations with its most distant regencies in the Mediterranean, to deepen information and understandings about processes such as Mediterranean political and commercial history, the Ottomans’ role as mediator in problem cases in the region, the relationship between central and provincial administrations, diplomatic and commercial relations with European states, maritime affairs and piracy, military power, and the local administrative structures. Relevant official archive documents are being deciphered and used as references. This book has the Foreword of IRCICA Director General Prof. Dr. Mahmud Erol Kılıç and the Preface of Prof. Dr. İdris Bostan from Pirî Reis University (Istanbul). It is expected to contribute significantly to the related research fields.