North Africa, 1662

Gigeri in Africa captured and then abandoned by the French, 1662. Birds-eye view print shows map of the coastline of North Africa looking across the Mediterranean toward the islands of Sardinia and Corsica. Ships, tents, troop formations, towns, soldiers on horseback are visible. In the foreground are five figures in African native costume looking on, smoking a pipe, standing and talking next to a tree trunk from above. Elements in print are labeled A-K with descriptive key at right upper corner of the print. Igilgili (modern day Jijel in north-eastern Algeria) was first inhabited by Berber tribes, the most prominent of which were the Kutama.[citation needed] Originally a Phoenician colony, the city passed to the Carthaginians, the Roman Republic and Empire, the Vandals, the Byzantines, the Umayyads, the Genovese, and the Ottomans. It was conquered for the last in the 16th century by Hayreddin Barbarossa. In 1662, the French took the city. Resistance was organized under the direction of Shaban Aga and the French were driven out in October of the same year. Publisher not identified, 1664-1670

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12697869

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47676226

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4200px x 3381px (4.2MB)

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LOC/Science Source/Mary Evans