Barbary
North African shore
Barbary is the historical name for the North African coast from Morocco to Libya, used especially from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.
The Barbary Coast was notorious for piracy; Barbary pirates raided European ships and coastal towns.
The term appears in Barbary States, Barbary Wars, and various animal names tied to the region. (Lowercase barbary appears in some animal names like barbary ape.)
Northwest African region
- North AfricaContinent's Mediterranean coastal region
- AlgiersCapital of largest African nation
- TripoliLibyan seat of government
- TunisNorth African capital city
Morocco · Algeria · Tunisia · Libya · Mediterranean · Atlas Mountains · Sahara · Casablanca
Seafaring plunderers
- privateersLicensed wartime ship raiders
- privateeringLicensed wartime ship seizure
- raidsSudden armed attacks
- captivesPeople held by force
ransom · slavery · plunder · naval · maritime · galleys · tribute · hostages
Asian cheek-pouched primate
Phoenician colony that challenged Rome
- PhoeniciansAncient Levantine maritime civilization
- PunicOf ancient Carthage
- HannibalCarthaginian military commander
- VandalsEast Germanic tribal kingdom
Byzantine · Ottoman · regencies · pashas · antiquity · medieval · Islamic · Sublime Porte
Saharan Berber ethnic group
- nomadsUnsettled, roving people
- tribesAncestral social groups
- BedouinMiddle Eastern nomadic herder
- SaracensMedieval term for Arabs
indigenous · Moorish · Carthaginians · nomadic · tribal
Maghreb
Northwest African region
- North AfricaContinent's Mediterranean coastal region
- AlgiersCapital of largest African nation
- TripoliLibyan seat of government
Tunis · Morocco · Algeria · Tunisia · Libya · Mediterranean · Atlas Mountains · Sahara · Casablanca · Marrakesh
corsairs
Seafaring plunderers
- privateersLicensed wartime ship raiders
- privateeringLicensed wartime ship seizure
- raidsSudden armed attacks
captives · ransom · slavery · plunder · naval · maritime · galleys · tribute · hostages · slave markets
macaque
Asian cheek-pouched primate
- apeTailless higher primate
- GibraltarBritish overseas territory, Iberian
- primateHigher mammal order member
sheep · endangered · extinct
Carthage
Phoenician colony that challenged Rome
- PhoeniciansAncient Levantine maritime civilization
- PunicOf ancient Carthage
- HannibalCarthaginian military commander
Vandals · Byzantine · Ottoman · regencies · pashas · antiquity · medieval · Islamic · Sublime Porte · caliphate
Tuareg
Saharan Berber ethnic group
Saracens · indigenous · Moorish · Carthaginians · nomadic · tribal
Barbarysub-Saharan Africa
Continent south of Sahara
West Africa · Central Africa · Southern Africa · East Africa · Nubia
- Barbary corsairsNorth African maritime raiders
- Barbary piratesNorth African maritime raiders
- Barbary CoastHistoric pirate-infested African shoreline
- Barbary apeTailless Old World monkey