Sack of Naples

1544 Algerian capture of Bay of Naples

Not to be confused with Siege of Naples (536).

Sack of Naples

Part of Spanish–Ottoman wars

Map of the Bay of Naples
| Date| 1544

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Location|

Naples, Kingdom of Naples

Result|  Algerian victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Naples|  Regency of Algiers
Strength
Unknown|  Unknown
Casualties and losses
7,000 enslaved|  Unknown

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Prelude

* Reconquista
* Granada War
* Ottoman intervention
* Ottoman raid on the Balearic Islands (1501)
* Catalan campaigns in the East
* Ottoman wars in Europe
* Battle of Nicopolis
* Skanderbeg's rebellion
* Fall of Constantinople
* Ottoman–Venetian wars
* Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479)
* Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)
* Hungarian–Ottoman Wars
* Ottoman conquest of Otranto
* Ottoman–Habsburg wars
* Spanish expansion to the Maghreb
* Spanish Crusade
* Algerian campaign [fr]
* Moroccan campaign
* Libyan campaign
* Tunisian campaign
* Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts
* Mamluk–Portuguese conflicts
* Portuguese India Armadas

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1st Mediterranean (1515–1585)

* 1st Algeria (1516)
* 2nd Algeria (1518)
* 3rd Algeria (1519)
* 1st Tunisia (1520)
* 4th Algeria (1529)
* Battle of Formentera (1529)
* Modon (1531)
* 5th Algeria (1531)
* Coron (1533)
* 2nd Tunisia (1534)
* 1st Balearic (1535)
* 6th Algeria (1535)
* 3rd Tunisia (1535)
* Italian War of 1536–1538
* Apulia (1537)
* Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–1540)
* 1st Sousse (1537)
* Preveza (1538)
* Castelnuovo (1539)
* Sardinia (1540)
* Alborán (1540)
* 7th Algeria (1541)
* Italian War of 1542–1546
* Nice (1543)
* 1st Sicily (1544)
* 1st Naples (1544)
* 8th Algeria (1543)
* 9th Algeria (1543)
* 10th Algeria (1547)
* Valencia (1550)
* 4th Tunisia (1550)
* 1st Gozo (1551)
* 11th Algeria (1551)
* Italian War of 1551–1559
* 1st Libya (1551)
* Battle of Ponza (1552)
* 2nd Libya (1552)
* 2nd Balearic [fr] (1553)
* Corsica (1553)
* 2nd Naples (1554)
* 3rd Balearic (1558)
* 1st Morocco [fr] (1554)
* 12th Algeria (1555)
* 13th Algeria (1556)
* 14th Algeria (1558)
* 4th Balearic (1558)
* 15th Algeria (1559)
* 5th Tunisia (1560)
* 2nd Sicily (1561)
* 2nd Morocco (1563)
* 16th Algeria (1563)
* Granada (1563)
* 3rd Morocco (1564)
* Malta (1565)
* Anti-Ottoman revolts of 1565–1572
* Albanian revolt of 1566–1571
* 17th Algeria (1567)
* Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1568–1571)
* 6h Tunisia (1569)
* Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573)
* 2nd Gozo (1570)
* Lepanto (1571)
* Navarino (1572)
* 7th Tunisia (1573)
* 3rd Naples (1573)
* 8th Tunisia (1574)
* 18th Algeria (1575)
* Battle of Alcácer Quibir (1578)
* Lanzarote (1586)
* Longina (1595)

2nd Mediterranean (1603–1625)

* Spanish-Barbary conflicts (1600s–1620s)
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* Syracuse (1625)

Barbary unofficial campaigns (1630s–1700s)

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* Ceriale and Borghetto (1637)
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* 2nd Oran and 2nd Mers el-Kébir [fr]
* Siege of Oran (1707–1708)
* Action of 28 November 1751
* Action of 16 April 1755
* 2nd Cape Palos

3rd Mediterranean (1714–1792)

* Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718)
* Spanish conquest of Oran (1732)
* Spanish–Algerian War (1775–1785)
* Siege of Oran (1790–1792)

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Central Europe and Balkans

* Hungarian Campaign
* Siege of Buda (1530)
* Siege of Kőszeg
* Siege of Pest
* Battle of Szeged (1552)
* Siege of Temesvár (1552)
* Battle of Palást
* Croatian Campaign
* Siege of Vienna (1529)
* Long Turkish War
* Himara Revolt of 1596
* Thessaly rebellion (1600)
* Bocskai uprising
* Thirty Years War
* Bohemian Revolt
* Great Turkish War
* Siege of Buda (1686)

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Oversea Conflicts

* Ottoman–Portuguese confrontations
* Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts
* Ottoman expeditions to Aceh
* Gujarati–Portuguese conflicts
* Indian Ocean · 1st East Africa
* Somali–Portuguese conflicts
* Ethiopian–Adal War
* War of the League of the Indies
* 2nd East Africa
* Baloch–Portuguese conflicts
* Spanish–Moro conflict
* Bruneian Campaign
* Insulindia Theater

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* Mohács (1526)
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* Serb uprising of 1596–1597
* First Tarnovo Uprising (1598)
* Bocskai uprising (1604–06)
* Thirty Years' War (1614–48)
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* 1st Transylvanian intervention (1619–26)
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* Austro-Turkish War (1663–64)
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* Austro-Turkish War (1716–18)
* Russo-Turkish War (1735–39)
* Russo-Turkish War (1787–92)
* Austro-Turkish War (1788–91)

Mediterranean

* Spanish–Ottoman wars (1492–1792)
* Anti-Ottoman revolts of 1565–1572
* Albanian revolt of 1566–1571
* Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1568–1571)
* Himara Revolt of 1596
* Thessaly rebellion (1600)
* Epirus revolt of 1611
* Spanish-Barbary conflicts
* Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)
* Italian War of 1536–1538
* Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–1540)
* Italian War of 1542–1546
* Italian War of 1551–1559
* Barbary–Portuguese conflicts (1554–1819)
* Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573)
* Morean War (1684–99)
* Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718)

East Indies

* Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts
* Ottoman expeditions to Aceh (1562–66)
* Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560)
* Spanish–Moro conflict
* Castilian War (1578)
* Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1586–1589)

The sack of Naples occurred in 1544 when Algerians captured the Bay of Naples and enslaved 7,000 Neapolitans.

In 1544 Algerian corsairs sailed into the Bay of Naples and captured it. They then took an estimated 7,000 Neapolitan slaves.[1][2]

The number of slaves taken by the Algerians drove the price of slaves so low that it was said “you could swap a Christian for an onion”.[3][4][1] Moreover, it was said to be “raining Christians in Algiers”.[4]

## References

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1. ^ a b The Barnes Review, Volume 12 TBR Company,
2. ^ Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown Céline Dauverd Cambridge University Press,
3. ^ Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature Ato Quayson Cambridge University Press,
4. ^ a b Holy War and Human Bondage: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean Robert C. Davis ABC-CLIO,

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