صورة الأسطول و البحارة الجزائريين خلال العهد العثماني من خلال مصادر أجنبية

Abstract EN

The conflict between Islam and Christianity that characterized Algeria's relationship during the Ottoman era with European countries was one of the most important reasons for the interest and focus of Western sources on naval activity and the Algerian fleet, in an attempt to unite the Crusader forces to eliminate the Algerian fleet and its dominance over the Mediterranean Sea.

Memoirs of trip reports.

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a lot of historical information about the Algerian naval activity, and she painted a special picture of the Algerian fleet and sailors, in which she relied on her own point of view.

How did they look at the Algerian sailors? And why? The answer to this question is what our study attempts to shed light on by monitoring the image of the Algerian fleet in some foreign sources, with a discussion of this image, which was dominated by the racist view and Christian fanaticism, where the activity of the fleet and sailors was described in the worst descriptions, and it carried with it a call for the occupation of Algeria.