Editing History of Algeria (section)

==== Relation with the Ottoman Empire ====
Some sources describe it as completely independent from the Ottomans,<ref name="American Historia12">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6gOAQAAMAAJ&q=Algiers+independence+1710&pg=PA23 |title=General Index to Papers and Annual Reports of the American Historical Association, 1884-1914 |date=1918 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}}</ref><ref name="American Historia22">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gO0_AAAAYAAJ&q=Algiers+independence+1710 |title=Annual Report of the American Historical Association |date=1918 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hutt |first=Graham |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HxGQDwAAQBAJ&q=Algiers+independence+1710+influence&pg=PA114 |title=North Africa |year=2019 |publisher=Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd |isbn=978-1-84623-883-3 |language=en}}</ref> albeit the state was still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tF7DFV11ZA4C&q=algiers+nominally+ottoman&pg=PA508 |title=Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal |date=1857 |publisher=Henry Colburn |language=en}}</ref>

[[Cur Abdy]], dey of Algiers shouted at an Ottoman envoy for claiming that the Ottoman Padishah was the king of Algiers ("King of Algiers? King of Algiers? If he is the King of Algiers then who am I?").<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grammont |first=H. D. de |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wgJwFYP7uLIC&dq=Dey+roi+d%27alger+que+suis-je+donc&pg=PA283 |title=Histoire d'Alger sous la domination turque (1515-1830) |date=1887 |publisher=E. Leroux |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gheziel |first=Abla |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OxJxDwAAQBAJ&dq=Dey+roi+d%27alger+que+suis-je+donc&pg=PA33 |title=L'éveil politique de la société algérienne: Révoltes, soumission, assimilation et nationalisme - 1830-1936 |date=2018-09-25 |publisher=Editions L'Harmattan |isbn=978-2-14-010074-1 |language=fr}}</ref>

Despite the Ottomans having no influence in Algiers, and the Algerians often ignoring orders from the Ottoman sultan, such as in 1784.<ref name="rel3"/> In some cases Algiers also participated in the Ottoman Empire's wars, such as the [[Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)]],<ref name="Anderson-1952">{{Cite book |last=Anderson |first=R. C. |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005292860 |title=Naval wars in the Levant, 1559-1853 |date=1952 |publisher=Princeton |hdl=2027/mdp.39015005292860}}</ref> albeit this was not common, and in 1798 for example Algiers sold wheat to the [[First French Empire|French Empire]] [[French campaign in Egypt and Syria|campaigning in Egypt]] against the Ottomans through two Jewish traders.

In some cases, Algiers was declared to be a country rebelling against the holy law of Islam by the Ottoman Caliph.<ref name="UPMEC-1977">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4-ptAAAAMAAJ&q=%22abdi%22+fetva+rebel+against+algiers |title=Studies in Eighteenth Century Islamic History |date=1977 |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |isbn=978-0-8093-0819-4 |language=en}}</ref> This usually meant a declaration of war by the Ottomans against the Deylik of Algiers.<ref name="UPMEC-1977" /> This could happen due to many reasons. For example, under the rule of [[Haji Ali (Dey of Algiers)|Haji Ali Dey]], Algerian pirates regularly attacked Ottoman shipments, and Algiers waged war against the Beylik of Tunis,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Panzac |first=Daniel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_dyeFP5Hyc4C&q=algiers+1811+tunis+hamidou&pg=PA65 |title=The Barbary Corsairs: The End of a Legend, 1800-1820 |date=2005 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-12594-0 |language=en}}</ref> despite several protests by the Ottoman Porte, which resulted in a declaration of war.

It can be thus said that the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and Algiers mainly depended on what the Dey at the time wanted. While in some cases, if the relationship between the two was favorable, Algiers did participate in Ottoman wars,<ref name="Anderson-1952" /> Algiers otherwise remained completely autonomous from the rest of the Empire similar to the other Barbary States.