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Tunis, Battle of

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Tunis, Battle of

A Christian victory over the Ottoman Turks in Tunis, North Africa, July 1535. In 1534, the Turkish admiral Barbarossa (Khair ed-Din) had taken Tunis from the Moors. Seeing this as a threat to Spanish power in the Mediterranean, Emperor Charles V sent a military force to North Africa, his admiral Andrea Doria defeating Barbarossa at the battle of Tunis. Though seen as a great Christian victory, the battle did little to check Turkish power and Tunis fell to a Turkish army again in 1547.



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