النفوذ الاقتصادي الجزائري في إيالة تونس 1705-1782 م

Abstract EN

The issue of Maghreb relations in the ottoman era is one of the most important historical topics of wide interest by historians and researchers, but most of their interests fall into the political and military aspect more than others, as the latter has clear repercussions on various other fields of relations, especially the economic ones.

this is what we have seen through our study of the history of Algerian-Tunisian relations in the ottoman era ; as we found in it the rulers of Algeria have been interfering in the internal affairs of the Tunisian regency, as they were the ones who dismissed the rulers and appointed those who guarantee them to serve their interests, which is the same thing that gave them great influence inside the Tunisian territory.

the Algerian influence in the province of Tunisia was not limited to the political aspect only, but also extended to the economic field.

the interior in the Tunisian province and Bayat's repeated asylum to Algeria to seek help against each other, and all this is to achieve material gains with which they fill the state’s treasury or reduce its expenses, in addition to all the benevolence and gifts that Bayat of the Tunisian province used to bestow on Algerian officials and envoys and even some religious and tribal figures loyalty and support when necessary.

the rulers of Tunisia did not expect that these gifts and favors would soon become, with the passage of time, an annual tax that would generate a steady and permanent income for the treasury of the Algerian province.