Editing Divan (section)

===Ottoman Tripolitania===
{{see also|Government of the Classical Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Algeria|Ottoman Tunisia}}
Following the Ottoman conquest of North Africa, the [[Greater Maghreb|Maghreb]] was divided into three provinces, [[Ottoman Algeria|Algiers]], [[Ottoman Tunisia|Tunis]], and [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]]. After 1565, administrative authority in Tripoli was vested in a [[Pasha]] directly appointed by the Sultan in Constantinople. The sultan provided the pasha with a corps of [[Janissaries]], which was in turn divided into a number of companies under the command of a junior officer or ''[[Bey]]''. The Janissaries quickly became the dominant force in Ottoman Libya. As a self-governing military guild answerable only to their own laws and protected by a ''Divan'' (in this context, a council of senior officers who advised the Pasha), the Janissaries soon reduced the Pasha to a largely ceremonial role.