أثر الاحتلال الإسباني على ريف بايلك الغرب الجزائري

Abstract EN

At the end of the 15th century the Islamic-Christian conflict led to the fall of Islamic rule in Andalusia, which was followed by Spain and Portugal by transferring the conflict to the coasts of Islamic states in North Africa, whether Mediterranean or coastal.

As a result, the Spanish control was on many points on the Mediterranean coast, including Oran and Marsa Kebir from the beginning of the 16th century until the end of the 18th century.

Although this occupation was limited to Oran and its anchor, its effects reached the interior areas, and the countryside submitted to many of these consequences, whether at the level of security and stability or at the level of agricultural production, or even at the level of social, cultural and political relations.

This article examines the reasons for the success of the Spanish project in curbing some of the Bailek tribes of the West, and the resulting transformations, where people initially humiliated the cooperation with the occupier, and then were subjected to him and paid him various taxes, and then amounted to military cooperation between the two parties, the thing that raised the region's scholars against these tribes.

The research problem of this article revolves around two issues, the first concerns the reasons for the submission of these tribes to the Spanish occupation, and the second deals with the price paid by the countryside - over a long period - as a result of this submission.