Editing History of Algeria (section)

=== Algerian-Sharifian War ===
{{Main|Algerian-Sharifian conflicts}}

In the west, the Algerian-Cherifian conflicts shaped the western border of Algeria.<ref>{{cite web |last=Tayeb Chenntouf |date=1999 |title="La dynamique de la frontière au Maghreb", Des frontières en Afrique du xiie au xxe siècle |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentViewer.xhtml?v=2.1.196&id=p::usmarcdef_0000139816&file=/in/rest/annotationSVC/DownloadWatermarkedAttachment/attach_import_c35456f4-f4da-4b4a-b938-9d61f48fa689?_=139816fre.pdf&locale=fr&multi=true&ark=/ark:/48223/pf0000139816/PDF/139816fre.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22:605,%22gen%22:0%7D,%7B%22name%22:%22XYZ%22%7D,-250,769,0%5D |access-date=2020-07-17 |website=unesdoc.unesco.org}}</ref>

There were numerous battles between the Regency of Algiers and the Sharifian Empires for example: the campaign of Tlemcen in 1551, the [[Campaign of Tlemcen (1557)|campaign of Tlemcen in 1557]], the Battle of Moulouya and the [[Battle of Chelif]]. The independent Kabyle Kingdoms also had some involvement, the Kingdom of Beni Abbes participated in the campaign of Tlemcen in 1551 and the Kingdom of Kuku provided Zwawa troops for the [[Capture of Fez (1576)|capture of Fez in 1576]] in which Abd al-Malik was installed as an Ottoman vassal ruler over the Saadi Dynasty.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=V7qpKqM2Ji8C&pg=PA408 The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 3] - J. D. Fage: Pg 408</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=49rmZ7_kessC&pg=PA104 Pages 82 and 104, Death in Babylon: Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient]</ref> The Kingdom of Kuku also participated in the [[Capture of Fez (1554)|capture of Fez in 1554]] in which Salih Rais defeated the Moroccan army and conquered Morocco up until Fez, adding these territories to the Ottoman crown and placing Ali Abu Hassun as the ruler and vassal to the Ottoman sultan.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=V7qpKqM2Ji8C&pg=PA406 The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 3] - J. D. Fage: Pg 406</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xBVIAAAAMAAJ&q=salah+reis+%22fez%22 Politica e diritto nelle interrelazioni di Solimano il Magnifico]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=SjUMAQAAIAAJ&q=salah+reis+%221554%22 Mers el Kébir: la rade au destin tourmenté]</ref> In 1792 the Regency of Algiers managed to take possession of the Moroccan Rif and Oujda, which they then abandoned in 1795 for unknown reasons.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WQFyAAAAMAAJ Morocco in the Reign of Mawlay Sulayman] - Mohamed El Mansour Middle East & North African Studies Press, 1990 - Morocco - 248 pages: Pg 104</ref>