Dey

The dey was the title of the regents of Algiers under the Ottoman Empire of 1671 with 1830.

The territory of the dey was subdivided into three provinces (Constantine, Titteri, and Mascara), each one managed by a bey.

Towards 1600, the Turkish militia which resided at Algiers, and which had been up to that point under the authority of a pasha sent Constantinople, obtained from the sultan the permission to give itself a dey, to be used to him as support against the tyranny of the pashas governors.

The capacity of these chiefs increased quickly; finally Baba-Ali, elected in 1710, deposited the pasha, and obtained from the sultan Ahmet III the nomination of regency. As their capacity was elective, the deys always remained at the thank you of the army rabble, which raised them or deposited them with its liking: one saw six of them installed and assassinated the same day (1732). Baba-Mohammed had only the privilege to reign 25 years (1760 - 1791). The last dey d' Alger, Hussein, had reigned for 12 years at the time of the French occupation, in 1830.

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