Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and the Cherifian dynasties or Algerian-Sherifian conflicts opposed the Regency of Algiers and its allied local sultanates and tribal confederations, and on the other hand, the Sharifian
Saadian and Alawite dynasties that had ruled Morocco since the 16th century.
The origins of these conflicts were multiple and overlapping. The integration in 1520 into the Ottoman Empire of the state-owned enterprise of the Regency of Algiers in the central Maghreb as a new political center integrated into was at the expense of the Zayyanids of Tlemcen to its west. Recurrent conflicts at the beginning of the sixteenth century with the Regency on the one hand and the Spaniards on the other saw Tlemcen absorbed into the Regency. The weakening of the Zianides, aroused the covetousness of the Saadians who saw in it the opportunity to expand their territories to the East. Although the Regency of Algiers confirmed its control over Tlemcen and Orania, it did not have the means to launch long campaigns in the Sahara, which it delegated to various tribal confederations like the Ouled Sidi Cheikh. The Saadians were blocked to the north by the Spanish Empire but the Regency of Algiers then found a south-Saharan outlet for imperial expansion.
These conflicts and resulting treaties foreshadowed the borders and delimitations of the modern nation-states of the Maghreb.
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28 events in date order- Campaign of Orania1550number 1 on the map
- Battle of TlemcenSeptember 1550number 2 on the map
- Battle of Oued Zadidja1551number 3 on the map
- Campaign of TlemcenJanuary 1551number 4 on the map
- Battle of TazaDecember 1553number 5 on the map
- Capture of Fez7 January 1554number 6 on the map
- Battle of TadlaSeptember 1554number 7 on the map
- Campaign of Tlemcen1557number 8 on the map
- Expedition to Touat1557number 9 on the map
- Battle of Wadi al-Laban2 April 1558number 10 on the map
- Capture of FezMarch 1576number 11 on the map
- Battle of al-RuknMarch 1576number 12 on the map
- Campaign of Orania1647number 13 on the map
- Capture of Oujda1647number 14 on the map
- Campaign of Chlef1679number 15 on the map
- Battle of Djebel Amour1679number 16 on the map
- Battle of MoulouyaMay 1692number 17 on the map
- Siege of Oran20 July 1693number 18 on the map
- Battle Of Djidioua1694number 19 on the map
- Battle of Tlemcen1696number 20 on the map
- Maghrebi War1699 – 1702
- Siege of Oran1700 – 1701number 21 on the map
- Battle of al-KawiyaSeptember 1700number 22 on the map
- Oran Expedition1703 – 1707number 23 on the map
- Laghouat Expedition1708 – 1713number 24 on the map
- Laghouat Rebellion1727number 25 on the map
- Capture of the Rif1792 – 1795number 26 on the map
- Capture of Oujda1796number 27 on the map