EGYPT, AND SYRIA. 109 
Abu-'l-Haffan, fultan of Morocco, became fovereign by con- 
queft, about A. D. 1 347, of all the African ftates ; but this 
power was only a momentary meteor. 
About the year 1500 an ambitious Sheriff or defcendant of 
Mohammed, feized the fovereignty of Morocco ; and his de- 
fcendants, under the ftyle of Sherifs, retain the power to this 
day. :L 
The kingdom of Tremefen, on the Eaft of Fez, contained 
Algier, Oran, &c. It was feized by the Beni Zian about A. D. 
1249. On the death of the laft of that race, A. D. 1560, it 
was united to the Turkifh Deydom of Algier. 
The power of the Turks in Africa is very recent. It began 
in 15 14, when the pirate Barbaroffa feized Algier ; and piracy, 
as is too well known, has become an appendage of their do- 
minion. 
Tunis became fubjedt to the Abi-Hafs about A. D. 1240. 
Abu-Zekeria, the firft prince, is faid to have extended his con- 
tribution to the country of the negroes. A. D. 1270, St. Louis, 
attacking Tunis, periflied by a peftilence. 
In'i 533 BarbarofTa feized Tunis. The expedition of Charles V. 
1535, is well known ; but the African marygold is its only per- 
manent produft. The race of the Abi Hafs terminated in 1570, 
when El-Wahhali, a defcendant of Barbaroffa, and Dey of AI- 
