Conquest of the Touat (1583)
The Conquest of Touat and Gourara in 1583 was a military expedition led by the Saadi Sultan of Morocco Ahmad al-Mansur to conquer the oases of Touat and Gourara.[1][page needed][2][page needed]
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In 1582, Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur seized the Touat and the Gourara oases.[3][inconsistent]
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References[edit]
- ^ Abun-Nasr, Jamil (1987). A history of the Maghrib in the Islamic period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521337674.
- ^ Cory, Stephen (2016). Reviving the Islamic caliphate in early modern Morocco. Routledge. ISBN 9781317063438.
- ^ Bethwell A. Ogot and Unesco International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa, UNESCO, January 1, 1992 p. 301