الزعامات القبلية في منطقة تيارت و فعاليتها مع الوجود العثماني

Abstract EN

Talking about the Tiaret region during the Ottoman era cannot be separated from the area around Beylik in the West, which is the region that extends from Dar al-Sultan in the east, close to Chlef River and the Moulouya Valley on the Moroccan borders in the west, as well as the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the desert entrance to the south.

Extending from east to west over a distance of eighty stages, and from north to south by about twenty-five stages, according to the estimate of the English traveler (Shaw), where the political and religious sphere of influence of the sheikhdom of the children of Sidi al-Sheikh, it seems that the factors that facilitated the stability of the Turkish authorities locally, were the same.

Religious character, employee of honorable and righteous lineage and the call to jihad in the western province The Ottoman Turks found in the Makhzen tribes a certain good for them.

In order for the Turks to tighten their security grip on the people in the countryside of the region who used to make up most of the population of Tiaret, they resorted to taking advantage of these tribes, which entered the service of the Beylik, and became a military tool that supports the locality, so this method continued with the The rulers hired tribes loyal to them to serve their purposes.

This caused a major rupture in the social structure of the population of the region.

Giving privileges to the Makhzen tribes at the expense of the rest of the social formations, such as the parish tribes, the Almoravids and others, has created a state of societal tension