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    capture of Béjaïa was the battle in which the Spanish Empire took possession of Béjaïa (also known as Bougie), then an emirate ruled by a branch of the...
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    branches of the dynasty.: 35–101  The Hammadid dynasty made Béjaïa its capital city in 1090. Under the Almohad Caliphate Béjaïa was the capital of the western...
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    Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria; it is the capital of Béjaïa Province, Kabylia. Béjaïa is the largest principally Kabyle-speaking city in the region of Kabylia...
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    The Capture of Béjaïa or Capture of Bougie occurred in 1555 when Salah Rais, the Ottoman ruler of Algiers, took the city of Béjaïa from the Spaniards....
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    Pedro Arias Dávila (category Royal Governors of Panama)
    the first great Spanish expedition to the mainland of the New World. There, he served as governor of Panama (1514–1526) and Nicaragua (1527–1531), and...
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    is a list of wars involving the Republic of Tunisia and its predecessor states. Hilalian invasion of Ifriqiya Battle of Balaclava Battle of Monte Cassino...
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  • siege of Béjaïa was a major attempt in 1326–1329 by the Zayanids to take the city from their Hafsid rivals. The Zayanid sultans carried out a policy of expansion...
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    the fall of Béjaïa to the Spanish in 1510. The Hafsid emirs of Béjaïa set themselves up on the Kalâa and gathered around them a new tribe of loyalists...
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    at the capture of Mazalquivir (Mers-el-Kébir) and Oran in 1509. Navarro personally led the Spanish forces during the conquest of Bougie (Béjaïa), Algiers...
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  • the aim of taking several places on the Barbary coast. On January 1, 1510, 20 ships and between four and five thousand men left, bound for Bejaia, landing...
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