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Yusuf Dey
Yusuf Dey was dey of Ottoman Tunisia from 1610 to 1637, the most powerful official of the regency in his time. He welcomed Morisco refugees expelled from Spain, who founded and settled towns such as Testour, and he encouraged corsairing and trade. His mosque in Tunis, built in the 1610s, was the first in the city in the Ottoman Hanafi style.
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