عناصر التجديد ودورها في ريادة البحرية الجزائرية خلال القرنين السادس عشر و السابع عشر الميلاديين

Abstract EN

The Algerian navy took a gradual development, since its inception by Khair Eddin Barbarossa, to continue throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries AD, and knew the height of its strength in the eighties of the sixteenth century, to the forties of the seventeenth century, as a result of the combination and interaction of several positive factors, which gave it technical development and numerical superiority, to be able to dominate the Mediterranean and access the Atlantic Ocean, while maintaining its competitive position, benefiting from all the reasons for European technical and navigational superiority.

The direct carrier of these reasons are: Andalusians, after their expulsion from Spain and the usurpation of their property, which made them integrate into the Algerian navy, throwing all the navigational gains they carry within it, aiming for revenge, and the infidels who found in the Algerian navy their lost glory in their countries, and the prisoners until they are redeemed, religious and political conflict, and European commercial competition through the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

However, the observer of this development will find that as soon as these elements begin to deplete and the European conflicts begin to ease up, they will gradually reflect on the strength of the fleet to shift from leadership to defense in an attempt to preserve its units.