The Second Battle of Kalaa of the Beni Abbes took place in October 1559. It opposed the
regency of Algiers and its ally of circumstance the
Kingdom of Kuku to the
Kingdom of Ait Abbas.
Hassan Pasha ordered an expedition against the capital of the kingdom, the
Kalâa of Ait Abbas
The Kalâa of the Aït Abbas or Kalâa of the Beni Abbes (Berber: ⵇⴰⵍⵄⴰ ⵍⴰⵉⵜ ⵄⴰⴱⴰⵙ alεa nāt εabbas ar, قلعة بني عباس), sometimes spelled Qal'a or Guelaa, was a citadel and the capital of the kingdom of A ...
, to take revenge on the expedition of Sultan Abdelaziz of Kalaa, which had destroyed the forts of
Medjana
Medjana is a town and commune (municipality) in Bordj Bou Arréridj Province, Algeria. It is the (approximative) location the Ancient city and bishopric Vardimissa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
According to the 1998 census it has ...
and
Bordj Bou Arreridj, in order to annihilate his influence. On the second day of the fighting, Sultan Abdelaziz was killed. His brother Sultan Ahmed Amokrane succeeded him, and his soldiers maintained their position.
After eight days,
Hassan Pasha, seeing that his position had not evolved, and his army was experiencing losses every day, as well as difficulties related to the terrain, had to retreat.
[a et b Adrien Berruger, Les époques militaires de la grande Kabylie, 1857, p. 98][Hugh Roberts, Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-Colonial Algeria, 2014, p. 192] Nevertheless, the Turks returned to
Algiers
Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...
with the head of the sultan Abdelaziz as a trophy
See also
*Battle of Kalaa of the Beni Abbes (1553), First Battle of Kalaa of the Beni Abbes
*
Kalâa of Ait Abbas
The Kalâa of the Aït Abbas or Kalâa of the Beni Abbes (Berber: ⵇⴰⵍⵄⴰ ⵍⴰⵉⵜ ⵄⴰⴱⴰⵙ alεa nāt εabbas ar, قلعة بني عباس), sometimes spelled Qal'a or Guelaa, was a citadel and the capital of the kingdom of A ...
*Regency of Algiers
*
Kingdom of Ait Abbas
*Kingdom of Tlemcen
References
16th-century conflicts, Kalaa of the Beni Abbes
Battles involving Algeria, Kalaa of the Beni Abbes
Battles involving the Ottoman Empire, Kalaa of the Beni Abbes
Battles involving Ottoman Algeria, Kalaa of the Beni Abbes
1550s conflicts, Kalaa of the Beni Abbes
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