Tripolitanian civil war

Tripolitanian civil war
	; Map of the Tripolitania Eyalet in 1795.
Date	30 June 1793 – 20 January 1795; (1 year, 6 months and 3 weeks)[1]
Location	Ottoman Tripolitania
Result	Karamanli dynasty restored to the throne of Tripolitania; Weakening of Ottoman rule over Tripolitania
Belligerents
Tripolitania Eyalet	Karamanli dynasty; Beylik of Tunis
Commanders and leaders
Ali Pasha	Hamet Karamanli; Yusuf Karamanli; Hammuda ibn Ali; Moustapha Khodja

The Tripolitanian civil war was a conflict from 1793 to 1795 which occurred in what is today the country of Libya.

The war

Ali Pasha was an Ottoman officer. He was a slave in Algiers before rising through the ranks. In 1793 he entered Tripolitania through a ship. He couped the ruling Hamet Karamanli, the ruler of Tripolitania, who had ruled since the end of the corrupt and ineffective rule of Ali I in 1793. With the support of some locals, he defeated the guards of Hamet, and declared the reincorporation of Tripolitania into the Ottoman Empire, and himself the legitimate Pasha of Tripoli. He then proceeded to loot Tripoli, which caused a rebellion in the city.[2] Hamet and his brother Yusuf returned to Tripoli with the aid of the Bey of Tunis and the rebels, and took control of the throne.[3]

Aftermath

Following the end of the war, Hamet Karamanli was initially returned to the throne, ruling again as Ahmad II Pasha from 20 January 1795 until 11 June 1795, when Hamza Yusuf deposed him, seized the throne, and sent Hamet into exile. Hamet later tried unsuccessfully to return and seize the throne with American support in the Battle of Derne during the First Barbary War.

References

"Timeline". Retrieved 20 April 2014.
ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jabartī (1994). Abd Al-Rahmann Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt. Franz Steiner.
St John, Ronald Bruce (2002). Libya and the United States: two centuries of strife. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 20. ISBN 0-8122-3672-6. Retrieved 12 June 2011.

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[ALG3-1] "Timeline". Retrieved 20 April 2014.

[Jabartī1994-2] ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jabartī (1994). Abd Al-Rahmann Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt. Franz Steiner.

[3] St John, Ronald Bruce (2002). Libya and the United States: two centuries of strife. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 20. ISBN 0-8122-3672-6. Retrieved 12 June 2011.