Baba Ali Chaouch
| Baba Ali Chaouch | |||||
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| Dey | |||||
Baba Ali Chaouche, by Pierre Duflos | |||||
| Reign | 15 August 1710 – 4 April 1718 | ||||
| Predecessor | Dely Ibrahim Dey | ||||
| Successor | Mohamed Ben Hassan | ||||
| Died | 4 April 1718 Algiers, Regency of Algiers | ||||
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| Arabic | بابا علي شاوش | ||||
| Country | Regency of Algiers | ||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||
| Occupation | Corsair | ||||
| Military career | |||||
| Battles / wars | Dutch-Algerian War (1716-1726) | ||||
Baba Ali Chaouch, also known as Ali Soukali, or simply Ali I, was a ruler of the Deylik of Algiers from 1710 to 1718. He was the first dey of Algiers to be invested with the title of dey-pacha. The Sultan Ahmed III had Ali Chaouch's envoy given the caftan and the three tails, a sign of the dignity of a "pasha". This title was attributed to all his successors until 1830.
Algiers once again experienced prosperity thanks to corsairing and expeditions to the European coasts.