The most famous were the Barbary Corsairs from the Barbary Coast of North Africa. They actually had letters of marque so were actually privateers. The Barbary Corsairs intercepted ships traveling through the Strait of Gibraltar or coming from the trading ports of Alexandria and Venice. Interstellar ...
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[r]epresenting Barbary as a place of sexual threat for captive British women‖ was ―unusual,‖ and that ―the experiences of British women in North Africa in general had rarely been touched on in any detail‖ except in ―dry, government documents.‖ 3 Nabil Matar, though he is careful ...
Piracy also flourished in other regions. From the 16th to the 18th century, after the weakening of Turkish rule had resulted in the virtual independence of theBarbaryStates ofNorth Africa, piracy became common in the Mediterranean.Morocco,Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli so tolerated or even organized...