There have been several military campaigns against the Tunisian city of
Mahdia, including:
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Mahdia campaign of 1087
The Mahdia campaign of 1087 was a raid on the North African town of Mahdia by armed ships from the northern Italian maritime republics of Genoa and Pisa.
Mahdia had been the capital of Ifriqiya under the Fatimids, chosen due to its proximity to ...
, in which Genoese and Pisan forces sacked the city
*In 1148 the city was sacked (see
Kingdom of Africa
The Kingdom of Africa was an extension of the frontier zone of the Kingdom of Sicily, Siculo-Norman state in the former Roman province of Africa (''Ifrīqiya'' in Arabic), corresponding to Tunisia and parts of Algeria and Libya today. The main ...
)
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Barbary Crusade
The Barbary Crusade, also called the Mahdia Crusade, was a Franco- Genoese military expedition in 1390 that led to the siege of Mahdia, then a stronghold of the Barbary pirates in Hafsidi Ifriqiya (geographically corresponding to modern Tunisia). ...
(1390), in which French and Genoese crusaders unsuccessfully besieged the city
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Capture of Mahdia (1550)
The capture of Mahdia was an amphibious warfare, amphibious military operation that took place from June to September, 1550, during the Ottoman–Habsburg wars#War in the Mediterranean, struggle between the Ottoman Empire and the Spanish Habsbur ...
, in which Spanish forces besieged and captured the city
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