The Role of the Economic Factor in Spain's Occupation of Tripoli West 1510-1530 AD

Abstract

Tripoli is one of the important cities in North Africa, in terms of: its location, its port, and its economic importance in the transfer of European trade across the desert, and the attention of the Spaniards turned to the city, and acknowledges its occupation. Because it was the rear base of Djerba, which, if it were controlled, would subject the Mediterranean basin to the Spanish power, which needed to be used as a military base to launch its operations in the Mediterranean, and accordingly, through the commercial relations between Italian, Spanish and city commercial cities, merchants worked to convey a vivid picture of the situation. Its economics, and perhaps the reason that accelerated the process of occupation of the city, to control trade in the Mediterranean in favor of Spanish trade, which was offset by a deterioration in the economic conditions in the city.