What the records say
- When
- 26 Jun 1535 – 31 Jul 1535
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 36.80° N, 10.17° E
- Description
- 1535 battle
Conquest of Tunis (1535)
Capture of Tunis by Habsburg alliance in 1535
The Conquest of Tunis in 1535 occurred when the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his allies captured the city of Tunis from the control of the Ottoman Empire. The Catholic fleet, which included admirals Andrea Doria and Bazán the Elder, captured the fleet of grand Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa, who had turned Tunis into his naval base for future invasions of Italy and Spain.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Tunus, İspanyol egemenliğine girdi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “bataille de Tunis”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Тунисская война предпринятая королем Испании Карлом V попытка закрепиться на северном побережье Африки”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page