The town was destroyed by the Vandals in the 5th century CE. In the early 16th century, many of the Moors (Spanish Muslims) expelled from Spain sought asylum in Algiers. The emir of Algiers appealed to two Turkish corsairs to expel the Spaniards from the Peñon, and one of the corsairs, Barbarossa (Khayr al-Dīn), seized Algiers in 1529, expelled the Spaniards, and placed Algiers under the authority of the Ottoman sultan.
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