Editing History of Algeria (section)

=== Base in the war against Spain ===
Hayreddin Barbarossa established the military basis of the regency. The Ottomans provided a supporting garrison of 2,000 Turkish troops with artillery.<ref name="Naylorp 117">{{cite book |last=Naylorp |first=Phillip Chiviges |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a1jfzkJTAZgC&pg=PA117 |title=North Africa: a history from antiquity to the present |publisher=University of Texas Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-292-71922-4 |page=117 |access-date=24 October 2010}}</ref> He left [[Hasan Agha]] in command as his deputy when he had to leave for [[Constantinople]] in 1533.<ref name="Abun-Nasr 151">{{harvnb|Abun-Nasr|1987|p=160}}: "[In 1671] Ottoman Algeria became a military republic, ruled in the name of the Ottoman sultan by officers chosen by and in the interest of the Ujaq."</ref> The son of Barbarossa, [[Hasan Pasha (son of Barbarossa)|Hasan Pashan]] was in 1544 when his father retired, the first governor of the Regency to be directly appointed by the Ottoman Empire. He took the title of ''[[beylerbey]]''.<ref name="Abun-Nasr 151" /> Algiers became a base in the war against [[Spain]], and also in the [[Morocco–Turkey relations|Ottoman conflicts with Morocco]].

''Beylerbeys'' continued to be nominated for unlimited tenures until 1587. After Spain had sent an embassy to Constantinople in 1578 to negotiate a truce, leading to a formal peace in August 1580, the Regency of Algiers was a formal Ottoman territory, rather than just a military base in the war against Spain.<ref name="Abun-Nasr 151" /> At this time, the Ottoman Empire set up a regular Ottoman administration in Algiers and its dependencies, headed by ''[[Pasha]]s'', with 3-year terms to help considate Ottoman power in the Maghreb.