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Yusuf (ibn Ali) Karamanli, Qaramanli or al-Qaramanli or Caramanli (most commonly Yusuf Karamanli), (1766-1838) was the best-known Pasha
Pasha

Pasha or pacha, formerly bashaw, was a high rank in the Ottoman Empire political system, typically granted to governors and generals....
 (reigned 1795-1832) of the Karamanli dynasty
Karamanli dynasty

The Karamanli or Qaramanli or al-Qaramanli dynasty was a series of Pashas who ruled from 1711 to 1835 in Tripolitania . At their peak, the Karamanlis' influence reached Cyrenaica and Fezzan covering most of Libya....
 (1711-1835) of Tripolitania
Tripolitania

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 (in present-day Libya
Libya

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), noted for being the first head of state to declare war on the newly independent United States
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f, a member of the Karamanli (Caramanli) dynasty (originally from and named after the town of Karaman
Karaman

Karaman is a town in south central Turkey, located north of the Taurus Mountains, ca south of Konya. It is the capital district of the Karaman Province Provinces of Turkey....
, south of Konya
Konya

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, in present-day Turkey
Turkey

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), saw his brother Hamet deposed in 1793, by Ottoman
Ottoman Empire

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 officer Ali Benghul; Benghul proceeded to restore Ottoman
Ottoman Empire

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 rule over Tripoli.






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Yusuf (ibn Ali) Karamanli, Qaramanli or al-Qaramanli or Caramanli (most commonly Yusuf Karamanli), (1766-1838) was the best-known Pasha
Pasha

Pasha or pacha, formerly bashaw, was a high rank in the Ottoman Empire political system, typically granted to governors and generals....
 (reigned 1795-1832) of the Karamanli dynasty
Karamanli dynasty

The Karamanli or Qaramanli or al-Qaramanli dynasty was a series of Pashas who ruled from 1711 to 1835 in Tripolitania . At their peak, the Karamanlis' influence reached Cyrenaica and Fezzan covering most of Libya....
 (1711-1835) of Tripolitania
Tripolitania

Tripolitania or Tripolitana is a historic region and former province of Libya, situated alongside Cyrenaica and Fezzan). The system of administrative divisions that included Tripolitania was abolished in the early 1970s in favour of a system of smaller-size municipality or baladiyah ....
 (in present-day Libya
Libya

Libya , officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , is a country located in North Africa. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
), noted for being the first head of state to declare war on the newly independent United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.

Assumption of the throne

Yusuf, a member of the Karamanli (Caramanli) dynasty (originally from and named after the town of Karaman
Karaman

Karaman is a town in south central Turkey, located north of the Taurus Mountains, ca south of Konya. It is the capital district of the Karaman Province Provinces of Turkey....
, south of Konya
Konya

Konya is a city in Turkey, on the central plateau of Anatolia. It has a population of 1,412,343 ....
, in present-day Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
), saw his brother Hamet deposed in 1793, by Ottoman
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 officer Ali Benghul; Benghul proceeded to restore Ottoman
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 rule over Tripoli. In 1795, however, Yusuf returned to Tripoli, and with the aid of the Bey
Bey

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 (ruler) of Tunis
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, seized the throne, exiling Hamet and restoring Karamanli rule.

Barbary Wars


In 1801, Yusuf demanded a tribute of $225,000 from United States President
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 Thomas Jefferson
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. Jefferson, confident in the ability of the new United States Navy
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 to protect American shipping, refused the Pasha's demands, leading the Pasha to unofficially declare war in May 1801 by chopping down the flagpole before the American consulate.

The US Navy successfully blockaded Tripoli's harbors in 1803. After some initial military successes, most notably the capture of the USS Philadelphia
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, the pasha soon found himself threatened with invasion by American ground forces following the Battle of Derna
Battle of Derna

The Battle of Derne was a decisive victory of a mercenary army led by a detachment of United States Marine Corps over the forces of the Barbary coast nation of Tripoli during the First Barbary War....
 and the reinstatement of his deposed brother, Hamet Karamanli, recruited by the American army officer William Eaton. He signed a treaty ending the war on June 10, 1805.

Decline of the Karamanli (Caramanli) dynasty

By 1819, the various treaties of the Napoleonic Wars
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 had forced the Barbary states to give up piracy almost entirely, and Tripoli's economy began to crumble. Yusuf attempted to compensate for lost revenue by encouraging the trans-Saharan slave trade, but with abolitionist sentiment on the rise in Europe
Europe

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 and to a lesser degree the United States, this failed to salvage Tripoli's economy. As Yusuf weakened, factions sprung up around his three sons; though Yusuf abdicated in 1832 in favor of his son Ali II, civil war soon resulted. Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II
Mahmud II

Mahmud II was the 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. He was born at Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, the son of Sultan Abdul Hamid I....
 sent in troops ostensibly to restore order, but instead deposed and exiled Ali II, marking the end of both the Karamanli dynasty and an independent Tripoli.

Books

  • LAFI (Nora), Une ville du Maghreb entre ancien régime et réformes ottomanes. Genèse des institutions municipales à Tripoli de Barbarie (1795-1911), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2002, 305 p.


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