معاهدة السلام بين إيالة الجزائر و مملكة السويد عام 1729

Abstract EN

This paper explores the “Treaty of Peace and Commerce” which was joined by the Eyalet of Algiers and the Kingdom of Sweden in 1729.

The author details the day-to-day negotiations which built up to the final accord (the first of its kind between Sweden and a state in the Islamic world) as well as the measures which the Swedes took to ensure that the agreement was a success.

Of particular note is that the Treaty did not come at the end of what could be understood, in today’s terms, to be a war.

Breaking with the dominant tradition which dates Sweden- Algeria relations to the post-independence era, this paper roots these ties firmly in the 17th Century, at the first attempts of Sweden to pay ransom for its sailors held captive in Algerian jails.