View of Mostaganem before 1830
Mostaganem already existed in the Punic period under the name Murustaga.
The Romans rebuilt a city there in the 3rd century.
In 1082, Youssef Ibn Tachfin, king of the Almoravid dynasty, built Bordj El Mehal, the ancient citadel of the city.
It then came under the control of the Zianides of Tlemcen, then the Mérinides of Fez, including Abou El Hassan Ali Ibn Abi Saïd who built, in 1341, the city's great mosque.
Occupied by the Spanish at the beginning of the 16th century, Mostaganem called on the Turkish corsair Khayr-Eddine Barberousse who liberated the city by crushing the Spanish invaders at Mazagran in 1558.
Khayr-Eddine and the Turks expanded and fortified the city of Mostaganem by building a large Mediterranean port and one of the reference cities during the Ottoman presence in Algeria.
The Romans rebuilt a city there in the 3rd century.
In 1082, Youssef Ibn Tachfin, king of the Almoravid dynasty, built Bordj El Mehal, the ancient citadel of the city.
It then came under the control of the Zianides of Tlemcen, then the Mérinides of Fez, including Abou El Hassan Ali Ibn Abi Saïd who built, in 1341, the city's great mosque.
Occupied by the Spanish at the beginning of the 16th century, Mostaganem called on the Turkish corsair Khayr-Eddine Barberousse who liberated the city by crushing the Spanish invaders at Mazagran in 1558.
Khayr-Eddine and the Turks expanded and fortified the city of Mostaganem by building a large Mediterranean port and one of the reference cities during the Ottoman presence in Algeria.