Hasan Agha
Hasan Agha | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Died | Algeria |
| Nationality | Sardinian, Ottoman |
| Other names | Hadım Hasan Agha |
| Occupation | Governor of Ottoman Algeria |
| Years active | 1532–1544 |
| Known for | Defence of Algeria against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Andrea Doria |
Hasan Agha (also known as Hadım Hassan Ağa or Hassan the eunuch) was a Sardinian renegade and effective ruler of the Regency of Algiers from 1533 to 1545.
He was born in Sardinia, where he was captured as a boy by the Algerian corsairs.[1] He became a slave of Hayreddin Barbarossa who freed him, and from then, his career led him to become one of Hayreddin's most trusted men.[1][2][3] As his assistant and later lieutenant,[4] Hayreddin left him in command when he had to leave for Constantinople in 1533.[5][6] Hasan Agha ruled Algiers until 1545, as Barbarossa continued to be based in Constantinople as commander-in-chief of the Ottoman fleet and waged his campaigns in Tunisia.[6]
Hasan Agha was the commander of Algiers during the 1541 Algiers expedition, in which Barbarossa was absent and which ended with catastrophic results for Charles V.[7][6]
In 1542, he besieged the Zwawa tribe, who had supplied Charles V with 2,000 troops.[7]
Upon the retirement of Barbarossa in 1544, the son of Barbarossa Hasan Pasha was appointed Governor of Algiers to replace his father, and thus also replace Hasan Agha in the position of effective ruler.
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b SHUVAL, TAL. “HOUSEHOLDS IN OTTOMAN ALGERIA.” Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, vol. 24, no. 1, 2000, pp. 41–64. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43384749. Accessed 16 June 2025
- ^ Merouche 2007, p. 127.
- ^ Pierre 2023, p. 139.
- ^ Giuseppe Capriotti, Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Sabina Pavone (2022). Eloquent Images Evangelisation, Conversion and Propaganda in the Global World of the Early Modern Period. Leuven University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-94-6270-327-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Abun-Nasr, Jamil M. (1987). A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period. Cambridge University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-521-33767-0.
- ^ a b c Seybold 1987, p. 872.
- ^ a b Murray (Firm), John; Playfair, Sir Robert Lambert (1887). Handbook for Travellers in Algeria and Tunis, Algiers, Oran, Constantine, Carthage, Etc. J. Murray. p. 38.
References
[edit]- Merouche, Lemnouar (2007). Recherches sur l'Algérie à l'époque ottomane II: La course, mythes et réalités [Research on Algeria in the Ottoman period II: The Corso, Myths and Realities]. Bibliothèque d'histoire du Maghreb (in French). Paris: Éditions Bouchène. ISBN 978-2-912946-95-9. OCLC 51843745.
- Pierre, Michel (2023). Histoire de l'Algérie: Des origines à nos jours [History of Algeria: From the origins to the present day] (in French). Paris: Tallandier. ISBN 979-10-210-6453-9.
- Seybold, Christian Friedrich (1987). Gibb, Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen; Kramers, Johannes Hendrik; Lévi-Provençal, Évariste; Schacht, Joseph (eds.). E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936. Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-09787-2. OCLC 612244259.