The government of Sultan Mahmud II takes…

1835 CE

The government of Sultan Mahmud II takes advantage of local disturbances in 1835 to reassert direct authority (which they will hold until the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire) over the Pashalik of Libya, bringing to end the Karamanli family’s one hundred and twenty-four-year pirate regime.

Tripolitania's economy had begun to crumble by 1819, after the various treaties of the Napoleonic Wars had forced the Barbary states to give up piracy almost entirely.

Yusuf Pasha Karamanli had attempted to compensate for lost revenue by encouraging the trans-Saharan slave trade, but with abolitionist sentiment on the rise in Europe and to a lesser degree the United States, this had failed to salvage Tripolitania's economy.

As Yusuf weakened, factions had sprung up around his three sons; though Yusuf had abdicated in 1832 in favor of his son Ali II, civil war had soon resulted.

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Tripoli > Tarabulus Liban-Nord Lebanon View →

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