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List of wars involving Algeria

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This is a list of wars involving the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria and its predecessor states.

  Algerian defeat
  Algerian victory
  Another result (e.g: Treaty, status quo ante bellum, indecisive/stalemate/withdrawal etc... or indecisive)

Massylii and Masaesyli Tribes (500–202) BC

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Conflict Belligerents Result for Algeria and its Allies
Combatant 1 Combatant 2
Part of the Punic Wars

Second Punic War


Location: Western Mediterranean, Mainly Italy and Tunisia

Roman Republic Carthage

Roman-Massylii Victory

Map of the Massylii and Masaesyli tribe Before 202 BC

Kingdom of Numidia (202–25) BC

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Conflict Belligerents Result for Algeria and its Allies
Combatant 1 Combatant 2
Part of the Punic Wars

Third Punic War (149–146) BC

Location: Tunisia

Roman Republic

Kingdom of Numidia

Carthage

Numidian-Roman Victory

Siege of Cirta (113–112) BC

Location: Constantine, Algeria

Forces under Jugurtha Adherbal

Adherbal loyalists and Roman citizens

Juguthine Victory

  • Jugurtha takes the throne
Jugurthine War (112–106) BC

Location: Mainly Algeria and Tunisia

Kingdom of Numidia

Mauretania (2nd Battle of Cirta)

Roman Republic

Roman Victory

Map of the war and cities
Hiarbas Revolt (88–82/81) BC

Location: Algeria

Forces under Hiarbas Roman Republic

Roman Victory

Caesar's civil war (10th January 49BC – 17th March 45BC)

Location: Algeria and Tunisia

Optimates

Eastern Numidia

Western Numidia

Pontus

Ptolemaic Kingdom

Garamantes (Battle of the Bagradas (49 BC))

Populares

Mauretania

rowspan="2" |Caesarian victory
Ceasar's invasion of Africa


Location: Algeria and Tunisia

Optimates

Eastern Numidia

Western Numidia

Populares

Mauretania

Arabio's Revolt


Location: Algeria and Tunisia

Numidia (Roman province) Under Titus Sextius

Forces Under Arabio

Africa Vetus Under Quintus

Unsure Roman Victory

  • Arabio success in every battle but killed by Sextius after a disagreement over territory
  • Provinces returned to Rome shortly After 40 BC
Detailed map of the Africa Roman province before unification with Numidia province and Africa Vetus
Revolt of Mauretania (40/41)

Location: Algeria

Berber rebels of Mauretania Roman Empire

Roman Victory

Mauro-Roman Kingdom (c. 477–578)

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Conflict Belligerents Result for Algeria and its Allies
Combatant 1 Combatant 2
Berber-Vandalic Wars (429–530)


Location: Maghreb Mainly Algeria, Tunisia and Libya

Western Roman Empire

Eastern Roman Empire

Mauro-Roman Kingdom

Kingdom of the Aures

Languatan

Foederati Berbers

Vandals

Alans

Rebelling Berbers against Rome

Partial Berber Victory

Vandalic War (533–534)

Location: Tunisia, Algeria and Sardinia

Byzantine Empire

Mauro-Roman Kingdom

Vandal Kingdom

Minor Berber tribes

Byzantine-Berber Victory

Byzantine–Moorish wars (533–548)


Location: Algeria and Tunisia

Mauro-Roman Kingdom

Kingdom of the Aures

Mauris

Frexes

Cabaon

Mastraciani

Ifuraces

Banu Ifran

Languatans

Tingitiana Berbers

Other various groups...

Byzantine Empire

Huns

Pro-Roman Berbers

Inconclusive

Garmul's Revolt (577–578)

Location: Mainly Algeria

Mauro-Roman Kingdom Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Victory

  • Garmul is killed during a banquet with Gennadius

Berbers in the Umayyad era (578–708)

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Conflict Belligerents Result for Algeria and its Allies
Combatant 1 Combatant 2
Part of the Early Muslim conquests

Ummayad conquest of the Maghreb (647–703)


Location: Maghreb, Mainly Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco

Byzantine Empire

Kingdom of Altava

Kingdom of the Aures

Rashidun Caliphate (Battle of Sufetula (647))

Ummayad Caliphate

Ummayad Victory

Map of the Ummayad Invasion of the Maghreb and with Battles
Berber Revolt
(739-743)


Location: Mediterranean Sea, North Africa,Al-Andalus
Berber insurgents Umayyad Caliphate Berbers victory

Kutama Confederacy (902–909)

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Conflict Belligerents Result for Algeria and its Allies
Combatant 1 Combatant 2
Kutama Campaign against the Aghlabids (902–909)

Location: Maghreb, Mainly Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco

Kutama Berbers Aghlabid Emirate

Fatimid Victory

Campaign of Abdallah against the Aghlabid Emirate.

Fatimid Caliphate (909–1171)

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Conflict Belligerents Result for Algeria and its Allies
Combatant 1 Combatant 2
Capture of Tahert (909)

Location: Tahert

Kutama Berbers Rustamid dynasty

Fatimid Victory

  • Tahert is destroyed and collapse of the Rustamid Dynasty
Fatimid invasion of Egypt (914–915)

Location: Libya and Egypt

Fatimid Caliphate Abbasid Caliphate

Stalemate

  • Fatimid withdrawal from Egypt and loss of Cyrenaica
Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921)

Location: Libya and Egypt

Fatimid Caliphate Abbasid Caliphate

Stalemate

  • Fatimid withdrawal from Egypt
Abu Yazid's Revolt (944–)

Location: Algeria and Tunisia

Fatimid Caliphate Forces under Abu Yazid

Fatimid Victory

  • Abu Yazid attacks put to an end
  • The Fatimid caliphate took control of Syria
Fatimid campaigns in the western Maghreb (958–960)

Location: Morocco

Fatimid Caliphate Emirate of Sijilmasa

Caliphate of Córdoba (nominally)

Fatimid Victory

  • Fatimid realm expanded to the Atlantic
Fatimid Conquest of Egypt (969)

Location: Egypt

Fatimid Caliphate Ikhshidid Dynasty

Fatimid Victory

  • The Fatimids take over Fustat
  • Fatimid failure to invade Syria
  • Fatimid Suzerainty over Mecca and Medina officially recognized
Part of the Arab–Byzantine Wars

Battle of Alexandretta (971)

Location: Alexandretta and Aleppo

Fatimid Caliphate Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Victory

  • The Fatimids Lift the siege of Aleppo
First Qarmatian invasion of Egypt (971)

Location: Palestine, Mainly Egypt

Fatimid Caliphate Qarmatians

Banu Uqayl

Banu Tayy

Egyptian Rebels

Fatimid Victory

  • Fatimid victory in Egypt
  • Qarmatian victory in the Levant
Second Qarmatian invasion of Egypt (973–974)

Location: Egypt

Fatimid Caliphate Qarmatians

Banu Tayy

Egyptian Rebels

Fatimid Victory

  • Qarmatian withdrawal from Egypt
Aftakin's Invasion of Syria (975–978)

Location: Palestine

Fatimid Caliphate

Banu Tayy

Forces under Aftakin

Fatimid Victory

Siege of Aleppo (994–995)

Location: Aleppo

Fatimid Caliphate Byzantine Empire

Hamdanid Dynasty

Byzantine–Hamdanid Victory

  • The Fatimids burn their camp and withdraw
battle of Orontes
(994)


Part of the Arab–Byzantine wars

Location: Mediterranean Sea, Syria
Fatimid Caliphate Byzantine Empire Fatimid victory
Map of the Hamdanid amirates of Mosul and Aleppo in 955 AD
Battle of Apamea
(998)


Part of the Arab–Byzantine wars

Location: Mediterranean Sea, Syria
Fatimid Caliphate Byzantine Empire Fatimid victory
Battle of al-Uqhuwana (1029)

Location: East of Lake Tiberias

Fatimid Caliphate

Kalb

Jarrahid Dynasty

Banu Tayy

Mirdasid Dynasty

Kilab

Fatimids Decisive Victory

  • Several towns and cities taken over by the Fatimids
Crusader invasions of Egypt
(1163-1169)

Part of the Crusader–Fatimid Wars

Location: Egypt
Fatimid Caliphate Kingdom of Jerusalem


Byzantine Empire

Fatimid decisive victory

  • Disappearance of the Fatimid Caliphate
Crusader invasions of Egypt

Zirid empire (972–1148)

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Conflict Belligerents Result for Algeria and its Allies
Combatant 1 Combatant 2
Zirid conquest of the western Maghreb (979–983)

Location: Mainly Morocco

Zirid Dynasty Zenata tribes

Barghawata

Idrissids

Caliphate of Córdoba

Zirid victory

  • All of the western Maghreb briefly annexed
  • Failure of Taking Ceuta from Cordoba
Tripoli Revolt (1002)

Location: Tripoli, Libya

Zirid Dynasty Banu Khazrun

Support:

Fatimid Caliphate

Caliphate of Córdoba

Zirid Victory

  • Tripoli stays under Zirid control from 1009 to 1022
Campaign of the Zirids In Iberia [fr] (1011–1016)

Location: Spain

Zirid Dynasty Caliphate of Córdoba

Zirid Victory

  • Zirid client installed on the cordoba throne
  • The Zirid control Elvira and Grenada
Zirid campaign in Illyria

Location: Albania, Greece and Turkey

Zirid Dynasty

Kalbids

Kalbids

Byzantine Empire

Zirid Victory

Zirid campaign in Central Italy [fr]

Location: Central Italy

Zirid Dynasty Republic of Genoa

Republic of Pisa

Zirid Minor Victory

  • The Zirid pirates activities in Italian briefly suppressed
Part of Hilalian Invasion of Ifriqiya

Battle of Haydaran (1052)

Location: Gabès, Tunisia

Zirid Dynasty

Hammadid dynasty

Banu hilal Arabs

Arab Victory

Zirid Conquest of Malaga (1056)

Location: Malaga, Spain

Zirid Dynasty of Grenada Hammudid Dynasty

Zirid Victory

Battle of Cerami (1063)

Location: Cerami (near Troina), Sicily

Kalbids

Zirid Dynasty

Normans

Norman Victory

Battle of Misilmeri (1069)

Location: Cerami (near Troina), Sicily

Kalbids

Zirid Dynasty

Normans|

Norman Victory

Hammadid Dynasty (1014–1152)

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Conflict Belligerents Result for Algeria and its Allies
Combatant 1 Combatant 2
Hammadid–Zirid War (1014–1018)

Location: Mainly Algeria

Hammadid dynasty Zirid Dynasty

Hammadid Rebels

Hammadid Partial victory

  • Peace treaty signed between the two Dynasties
Hammadid capture of Fez (1062)

Location: Fez, Morroco

Hammadid dynasty Local Maghrawa residents

Almoravids

Hammadid Victory

Hammadid Conquest of Ifrqiya (1062–1067)

Location: Ifriqiya, Mainly Algeria and Tunisia

Hammadid dynasty Local Residents

Hammadid Victory

  • Hammadi realm extended as far as Tripoli in the east, and as far as Ouargla in the south
Siege of Algiers (1082)

Location: Algeria

Hammadid dynasty Almoravids

Hammadid Victory

  • The Almoravids are kicked out of Algiers
Battle of Tlemcen (1102)

Location: Algeria

Hammadid dynasty Almoravids

Hammadid Victory

Sack of Bejaia (1136)

Location: Bejaia, Algeria

Hammadid dynasty Republic of Genoa

Hammadid Victory

  • The city is sacked and looted by the Genoa forces
Capture of Bone (1153)

Location: Annaba, Algeria

Hammadid dynasty Normans

Hammadid Victory

  • King Roger can't briefly captures Bone
Almohad Conquest of Algeria

Location: Algeria

Almoravids

Hammadid dynasty

Almohad Caliphate

Almohad Victory

  • The Almohads conquer all of the central Maghreb

Zayyanid Kingdom of Tlemcen (1235–1556)

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Conflict Belligerents Result for Algeria and its Allies
Combatant 1 Combatant 2
Zayyanid–Almohad wars (1236–1248) Kingdom of Tlemcen Almohad Caliphate

Marinid Sultanate

Hafsid dynasty

Zayyanid Victory

  • Independence of the Zayyanid emirate secured
Zayyanid Capture of Sijilmasa (1264)

Location:Sijilmasa, Morocco

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Zayyanid Victory

Siege of Tlemcen (1272)

Location: Tlemcen, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Zayyanid Victory

  • The Marinids lift the siege of the city
Battle of Tafna (1281) [fr]

Location: Tafna, Algeria and Morocco

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Marinid Victory

  • Zayyanid withdrawal
Siege of Tlemcen (1290) [fr]

Location: Tlemcen, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Zayyanid Victory

  • The Marinids lift the siege of the city
Siege of Nedroma (1296)

Location: Nedroma, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Zayyanid Victory

  • The Marinids lift the siege of the city
Siege of Tlemcen (1299–1307)

Location: Tlemcen, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Zayyanid Victory

  • The Marinids lift the siege of the city
Siege of Oujda (1314) [fr]

Location: Oujda, Morocco

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Zayyanid Victory

  • The Marinids lift the siege of the city
Siege of Béjaïa (1326–1329)

Location: Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Hafsid dynasty

Zayyanid Partial Victory

  • The Hafsids defeated in Temzezdekt and er-Rias
  • The Zayyanids lift the siege of the city
Capture of Tunis (1329)

Location:Tunis, Tunisia
Kingdom of Tlemcen Hafsid dynasty

Zayyanid Victory

  • The Hafsids briefly become vassal to the Zayyanids
Siege of Béjaïa (1331–1332) [fr]
Location: Algeria
Kingdom of Tlemcen Hafsid dynasty

Marinid Sultanate

Hafsid-Marinid Victory

  • The Zayyanids lift the siege of the city
Siege of Tlemcen (1335–1337)

Location: Tlemcen, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Marinid Victory

  • Beginning of the first Marinid Occupation (1337–1348)
Capture of Tlemcen (1352) [fr]

Location: Tlemcen, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Marinid Decisive Victory

  • Full annexation of the Zayyanid kingdom
Battle of Kairouan (1348) [fr] (April 1348)

Location: Kairouan, Tunisia

Kingdom of Tlemcen

Hafsid dynasty

Banu Sulaym
Banu Hilal

Marinid Sultanate

Zayyanid-Hafsid Victory

  • Independence of Tlemcen
Siege of Oran (1348) [fr] (October 1348)

Location: Oran, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Inconclusive

Siege of Oran (1349) [fr] (27th July– August 1349)

Location: Oran, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Zayyanid Victory

  • Oran is annexed by the Zayyanids
Battle of Oujda (1359) [fr]

Location: Oujda, Morocco

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Zayyanid Victory

Campagne of Tlemcen (1360) [fr]

Location: Tlemcen, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Zayyanid Victory

  • End of the second Marinid Occupation (1352–1359)
Siege of Oran (1360–1361) [fr] (1360–1361)

Location: Oran, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Zayyanid Victory

  • Oran is re annexed by the Zayyanids
Capture of Tlemcen (1370) [fr]

Location: Tlemcen, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Marinid Decisive Victory

  • Brief occupation of the Zayyanid Kingdom
Capture of Tlemcen (1383) [fr]

Location: Tlemcen, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Marinid Victory

  • Tlemcen briefly occupied
Barbary Crusade (July 1st – October 1st 1390) Location: Mahdia, Tunisia
The crusaders fleet on its way to Mahdia
Kingdom of Tlemcen

Hafsid dynasty

Hafsid of Bejaia

Kingdom of France

Republic of Genoa

Zayyanid-Hafsid Victory

Capture of Tlemcen (1393) [fr]

Location: Tlemcen, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Marinid Victory

  • The Zayyanids recognize Marinid suzerainty until 1411
Zayyanid conquest of Fez (1423)


Location: Fez, Morocco

Kingdom of Tlemcen Marinid Sultanate

Zayyanid victory

  • Zayyanid client briefly installed on the Marinid throne
Attack on Mers-el-Kébir (1497) [fr]

Location: Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Spanish Empire

Zayyanid Victory

  • Spanish expedition Failure
  • The Zayyanid navy continues to evacuate the Andalusians residents in Spain
Battle of Mers-el-Kébir (1501)


Location: Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Portuguese Empire

Zayyanid Victory

  • Mers el Kébir defended from Portuguese invasion
Capture of Mers-el-Kébir (1505)


Location: Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Spanish Empire

Spanish Victory

  • Mers-el-Kébir captured by Spain
Battle of Mers-el-Kébir (1507)


Location: Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Spanish Empire

Zayyanid Victory

Spanish conquest of Oran (1509)
Location: Oran, Algeria
Cardinal Cisneros dismbarking at Oran after the successful capture of the city
Kingdom of Tlemcen Spanish Empire

Spanish victory

Spanish expedition to Tlemcen (1535) (June – July 1535)

Location: Tlemcen, Algeria

Kingdom of Tlemcen Spanish Empire

Zayyanid Victory

  • Spanish Failure to establish a vassal in Tlemcen

Regency of Algiers (1515-1830)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result for Algeria and its Allies
Algiers Expedition (1516)
(1516)

Location:Algiers
Barbarossa
Flag of Kingdom of Kuku Kingdom of Kuku
Spanish Empire Algerian victory
  • Spanish attack repulsed
Algiers Expedition (1519)
(1516)

Location:Algiers
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Spanish Empire Algerian victory
  • Spanish attack repulsed
Fall of Tlemcen
(1519)

Location:Tlemcen, Algeria
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Spanish Empire Spanish victory
Capture of Peñón of Algiers (1529)
(1529)

Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars, and the establishment of the Regency of Algiers

Location:Algiers
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Spanish Empire Beylerbeylikal victory
Campaign of Cherchell (1531)
(1531)

Location:Cherchell
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Empire of Charles V:

Kingdom of France

Algerian victory
Ottoman–Venetian War
(1537–1540)

Part of the Ottoman–Venetian wars

Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars

Location: Mediterranean Sea

Beylerbeylik of Algiers
Holy League:
 Republic of Venice
 Spanish Empire

 Republic of Genoa
 Papal States
Sovereign Military Order of Malta Knights of Malta

Ottoman victory
  • A treaty or "Capitulation" was signed between Venice and the Ottoman Empire to end the war on 2 October 1540.
  • In the period between the start of the Second Ottoman–Venetian War in 1499 and the end of this war in 1540, the Ottoman Empire made significant advances in the Dalmatian hinterland – it didn't occupy the Venetian cities, but it took the Kingdom of Hungary's Croatian possessions between Skradin and Karin, eliminating them as a buffer zone between the Ottoman and Venetian territory.[1] The economy of the Venetian cities in Dalmatia, severely impacted by the Turkish occupation of the hinterland in the previous war, recovered and held steady even throughout this war.[2]
Algiers expedition
(1541)

Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars

Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars

Location: Algiers
Siege of Algiers in 1541. Engraving of 1555.
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Holy Roman Empire


Spanish Empire


Republic of Genoa
Republic of Venice
Duchy of Savoy
Papal States

Algerine victory
Charles V was the leader of the Holy League for the conquest of Algiers

Italian War of 1542–1546
(1542–1546)

Part of the Anglo-French Wars & Italian Wars

Part of the Algero-Spanish War

Location: Western Europe
The siege of Nice by a Franco-Ottoman fleet in 1543 (drawing by Toselli, after an engraving by Aeneas Vico)
Kingdom of France
Ottoman Empire

Beylerbeylik of Algiers

Holy Roman Empire


Spanish Empire
Kingdom of England

Inconclusive
Expedition to Mostaganem (1543)
(1543)

Location:Mostaganem
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Spanish Empire Algerian victory
  • Spanish attack repulsed
Expedition to Mostaganem (1547)
(1547)

Location:Mostaganem
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Spanish Empire Algerian victory
  • Spanish attack repulsed
Campaign of Tlemcen (1551)
(1551)
Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars

Location: Tlemcen
The troops of the regency of Algiers allied to the kingdom of Beni Abbes marching towards Oranie (19th century engraving)
Beylerbeylik of Algiers
Kingdom of Ait Abbas
Spanish Empire
Saadi sultanate
Algerian victory
  • The Moulouya river is set as the border
Campaign of Tlemcen (1552)
(1552)
Location: Tlemcen
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Saadi sultanate Algerian victory
The Moulouya river imposed as the border[3]
Capture of Fez (1554)
(1554)
Location: Fez, Morocco
Beylerbeylik of Algiers
Flag of Kingdom of Kuku Kingdom of Kuku
Saadi sultanate Algerian victory
Campaign of Tlemcen (1557)
(1557)
Location: Tlemcen
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Saadi sultanate Algerian victory
Expedition to Mostaganem (1558)
(1558)

Location:Mostaganem
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Spanish Empire Algerian victory
Campaign of Tlemcen (1560)
(1560)
Location: Tlemcen
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Saadi sultanate Algerian victory[4][5]
Rebellion of the Alpujarras
(1568–1571)

Part of the Algero-Spanish War

Location: Spain
Principal centres of the Morisco Revolt
Muslims of Granada
Beylerbeylik of Algiers
Spanish Empire Spanish victory
  • Mass expulsion of most Muslims in Granada
  • Resettlement of Granada with Catholic settlers
Franco-Algerian war (1609–1628) Beylerbeylik of Algiers Kingdom of France

Algerian victory

Tunisian–Algerian War (1628)
Part of the Tunisian–Algerian Wars
Location: Algeria, Tunisia
Pashalik of Algiers Beylik of Tunis Algerian victory
  • The border continues to be fixed further by the wadi Mellègue.
Cretan War (1645–1669)
Part of:Ottoman–Venetian wars
Location: Candia,Crete,Dalmatia and Aegean Sea
 Ottoman Empire Ottoman victory
Djidjelli expedition
(1664)

Location: Jijel
Combat between French and Algerian ships
Pashalik of Algiers
Kingdom of Ait Abbas
Flag of Kingdom of Kuku Kingdom of Kuku
Kingdom of France
Flag of Knights Hospitaller Knights Hospitaller
Algerian victory
  • France abandons Djidjelli

Deylikal period (1671-1830)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result for Algeria and its Allies
French-Algerian War
(1681–1688)

Location: Algeria, Mediterranean Sea
Bombardment of Algiers by the fleet of Admiral Duquesne in 1682
Deylik of Algiers Kingdom of France
Flag of Knights Hospitaller Knights Hospitaller
Algerian victory

Algiers,French Riviera Result

Algerian Victory

Peace treaty Bombardment of Algiers (1688)

  • Algerian Victory

conclusive peace treaty Algiers heavily damaged

Morean War
(1684–1699)

Part of the Ottoman–Venetian wars

Location: Peloponnese, southern Epirus, Central Greece, Aegean Sea, Montenegro
View of the fortress and harbour of Modon in 1688
Ottoman Empire
Deylik of Algiers
 Republic of Venice
 Holy Roman Empire
Sovereign Military Order of Malta Knights of Malta
 Duchy of Savoy
Papal States
Knights of St. Stephen
 Greek rebels
Montenegrin
Venetian victory
  • Morea ceded to Venice
  • Venetian gains in inland Dalmatia
Moulouya War
(1692)

Part of the Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco

Location: Moulouya River, Morocco
Battle of Moulouya in 1692 involded Algeria and Morocco.[6]
Deylik of Algiers Sultanate of Morocco Algerian victory[7]
  • Oujda experiences more than 100 years of rule under the Regency of Algiers[8][9]
Siege of Oran (1693)
(1693)

Part of the Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco

Location: Oran, Algeria
Spanish Empire

Deylik of Algiers

Sultanate of Morocco Spanish-Algerian victory
Tunisian-Algerian War of 1694
(1694)

Part of the Tunisian–Algerian Wars

Location: Tunisia
The fronts and battles during the Tunisian-Algerian war (1694)
Deylik of Algiers
Tripolitania
Tunisia Algerian-Tripolitanian victory
  • All of Tunisia occupied (until 1695).[10]
  • Moroccan-Tunisian alliance.[11]
Maghrebi war
(1699–1702)

Part of the Tunisian–Algerian Wars

Part of the Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco

Location: Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia
Deylik of Algiers Tunisia
Sultanate of Morocco
Tripolitania
Algerian Victory
  • Moroccan and Tunisian forces routed
Tunisian–Algerian War of 1705
(1705)
Part of the Tunisian–Algerian Wars
Location: Tunisia
Deylik of Algiers Beylik of Tunis Inconclusive
Oran Expedition (1707)
(1707)

Part of the Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco

Location: Oran, Algeria
Deylik of Algiers Sultanate of Morocco Algerian victory
Siege of Oran (1707–1708)
(1707–1708)

Part of the Algero-Spanish War

Location: Algeria
The statue of Our Lady of Santa Cruz on the Fort of Santa Cruz in Oran
Deylik of Algiers Spanish Empire Algerian victory
Spanish-Algerian War (1732)(1732) Location: Oran
Deylik of Algiers Spanish Empire Spanish victory
Tunisian–Algerian Wars 1735
(1735)

Part of the Tunisian–Algerian Wars

Location: Tunisia
Deylik of Algiers Beylik of Tunis Algerian victory
  • Abu l-Hasan Ali I proclaimed bey of Tunis
  • Tunisian commitment to pay an annual tribute of 50,000 piastres to Algiers
Tunisian–Algerian Wars 1756
(1756)

Part of the Tunisian–Algerian Wars

Location: Tunisia
Deylik of Algiers
Loyalists of Muhammad
Beylik of Tunis
Sovereign Military Order of Malta Knights Hospitaller
Algerian and loyalist victory
  • Muhammad I ar-Rashid proclaimed bey of Tunis
  • Bey's commitment to pay a tribute (oil to light the Algerian mosques)
Danish-Algerian War
(1769–1772)

Part of the Algeria-European War

Location: Mediterranean Sea
Deylik of Algiers  Denmark–Norway Algerian victory
Christian VII of Denmark
Spanish-Algerian war (1775-1785)
(1775–1785)

Part of the Algero-Spanish War

Location: Algiers
Map of the Spanish attack on Algiers in 1775
Deylik of Algiers Spanish Empire
Tuscany

Kingdom of Sicily
Kingdom of Naples
Malta
Portugal
Algerian victory
American–Algerian War (1785–1795)
Location: Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean
Deylik of Algiers United States Algerian victory
  • United States agrees to pay an annual tribute of $21,600 to Algiers
  • Establishment of the United States Navy
Russo-Turkish War
(1787–1792)

Part of the Algeria-European War

Part of the Russo-Ottoman Wars

Location: Eastern Europe
Siege of Ochakov 1788, by Polish painter January Suchodolski
Ottoman Empire
Deylik of Algiers
 Russian Empire

Black Sea Cossacks

Montenegro

Serbian Free Corps
Russian victory
  • No major repercussions in Algiers
Reconquest of Oran and Mers el-Kébir (1790-1792)
(1790–1792)
Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars

Location: Oran and Mers-el-Kébir
Deylik of Algiers Spanish Empire Algerian victory
  • Spain abandons Oran and Mers-el-Kébir
French campaign in Egypt and Syria Ottoman Empire

 Great Britain (1798–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801)
Regency of Algiers[13]

 France Victory
Tunisian–Algerian War (1807)
Part of: Tunisian–Algerian War
Location: Tunisia
Deylik of Algiers Beylik of Tunis Tunisian victory
  • Algerian victory in Constantine
  • Failure to innvade tunisia
Algerian-Tunsian naval war (1811) Deylik of Algiers
  • Algerian Navy
Beylik of Tunis Algerian victory
Tunisian–Algerian War (1813) Deylik of Algiers Beylik of Tunis Peace Treaty
  • Tunisian Victory and the invasion repelled
  • Political instability in Tunisia after the death of Hammouda Pasha
  • Algerian Military Victory
Second Barbary war
(1815)
Location: Mediterranean Sea
Deylik of Algiers  United States American victory
  • Freedom of movement in the Mediterranean for American ships
Bombardment of Algiers
(1816)
Location: Algiers
Bombardment of Algiers 1816, George Chambers
Deylik of Algiers British Empire
Dutch Empire
Anglo-Dutch victory
Sketch showing the positions of the fleet during the bombardment
Bombardment of Algiers, painted by Martinus Schouman
Greek War of Independence
(1821–1829)

Location: Greece
Clockwise: The camp of Georgios Karaiskakis at Phaliro, the burning of an Ottoman frigate by a Greek fire ship, the Battle of Navarino and Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt at the Third Siege of Missolonghi
Ottoman
Deylik of Algiers
Tripolitania
Egypt
border=no Tunisia
1821:

After 1822:

Military support:

Diplomatic support:

Greek independence:
Map showing the original territory of the Kingdom of Greece as laid down in the Treaty of 1832 (in dark blue)

Algerian revolutions (1830–1962)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result for Algeria and its Allies
French conquest of Algeria
(1830–1903)

Part of the Algeria-European War

Location: Algeria
La prise de Constantine by Horace Vernet
Regency of Algiers

Emirate of Mascara
Kingdom of Ait Abbas
Sultanate of Tuggurt
Kel Ahaggar
Libya Awlad Sidi Shaykh

 Kingdom of France (1830–1848)
 French Second Republic (1848–1852)
 Second French Empire (1852–1870)
 French Third Republic (1870 onward)

Support:
 Morocco (1847)

French victory

Pacification of Algeria

Chronological map of French Algeria's evolution
Algerian War
(1954–1962)

Part of the Algeria-European War

Location: Algeria
Collage of the French war in Algeria
FLN

MNA
PCA

France Algerian independence

~1,500,000 total deaths (FLN estimate)
~700,000 total deaths (Horne's estimate)[25]
~350,000 total deaths (French estimate)

People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (1962-present)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result for Algeria and its Allies
Sand War
(1963–1964)


Location: Algeria
Border Algeria and Morocco
Algeria
Egypt[28]
Cuba[29]
Morocco
Support:
France
[30]
Military stalemate
  • Expel Morocco from Tindouf and Hassi Beida
  • The closing of the border south of Figuig, Morocco/Béni Ounif, Algeria.
  • Morocco abandoned its intentions to control Béchar and Tindouf after OAU mediation.
  • No territorial changes were made.
  • Demilitarized zone established
Socialist Forces Front rebellion in Algeria
(1963–1964)


Location: Algeria
Algeria Socialist Forces Front Algerian government victory
  • Rebellion defeated
  • Aït Ahmed arrested
Yom Kippur War

(1973)

United Arab Republic

Expeditionary forces:

Supported by:

Israel

Supported by:

An Arab victory led to a truce, although both sides claimed victory.
Western Sahara War
(1975–1976)

Location: Western Sahara
Map of the Western Sahara; the red line is the military berm built by Morocco
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Algeria
Morocco
Mauritania
Inconclusive
  • Spanish withdrawal under the Madrid Accords (1976)
  • Mauritanian retreat and withdrawal of territorial claims
  • Military Stalemate[31][32][33]
  • Ceasefire agreed on between the Polisario Front and Morocco (1991)
  • Algeria victory in second battle of Amgala
Algerian Civil War
(1991–2002)

Location: Algeria
Military deployed in the streets of Algiers, after the military coup against the Islamists, who took up arms later
Algeria


Tunisia[35][36]
European Union[37]
France[36][37]
Egypt[35][36]
South Africa[38]
 Belarus (from 1997)[39]

FIS loyalists

Support:
Libya (until 1995)[36]
Morocco (alleged)[36][40][41]
Saudi Arabia (pre-war)[37]
Iran (alleged)[37]
Saudi private donors[37]


GIA (from 1993)

Supported by:
Sudan (alleged)[43][44][45]
Iran (alleged)[43][44][45]
Finsbury Park Mosque[46][47]
Brandbergen Mosque[48][49]
EIJ (until 1995)[50]

Government victory
Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
(2002–present)

Location: Maghreb, Sahara, Sahel
Map showing GSPC area of operations (pink), member states of the Pan Sahel Initiative (dark blue), and members of the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative (dark and light blue)
 Algeria
 Mauritania
 Tunisia
 Libya
 Mali
 Niger[53]
 Chad[54]
 France[54][55][56]
 Morocco[57]
GSPC (until 2007)
AQIM (from 2007)
Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (from 2017)
MOJWA (2011–13)
Al-Mourabitoun (2013–17)
Ansar Dine (2012–17)
Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia) (from 2011)[58]
Uqba ibn Nafi Brigade (from 2012)[59]
Ansar al-Sharia (Libya) (2012–17)
Salafia Jihadia[57]
Islamic State Boko Haram (from 2006, partially aligned with ISIL since 2015)[60][61]
Ongoing
ISIL insurgency in Tunisia
(2015–2022)

Location: Tunisia
 Tunisia
 Algeria
 Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)

Islamic State Ansar al-Sharia
(only in March 2016)[63]

Government victory
  • The armed insurgency was suppressed in 2022.[64]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ 1821
  2. ^ a b c From 1826
  3. ^ First nation to recognize the independence of Greece.

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