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Name: 1711 Karamanli coup

Type: Event

Start: 1712 AD

End: 1712 AD

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A popular revolt at the end of a period of civil war in Tripolitania led by the Turkish officer Ahmed Karamanli against the ruling Tripolitanian bey, in which Karamanli seized control of Tripoli and installed himself as the head of the Karamanli dynasty, which ruled over Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and Fezzan for 124 years as a semi-autonomous Ottoman province.

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  • January 1712: In 1711 Turkish officer Ahmed Bey Karamanli, overthrew the pasha of Tripoli and founded a dynasty that governed Tripoli for the next 124 years. Karamanli recognized the nominal Ottoman suzerainty, however Lybia was practically independent.

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  • St. John, R.B. (2014): Historical Dictionary of Libya, Rowman & Littlefield, p. 187
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