Barbary pirates
North African corsairs
Barbary pirates were Muslim corsairs operating from North Africa's Barbary Coast—primarily Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli—from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries.
They raided Mediterranean shipping and European coastal towns, capturing slaves and extracting tribute from nations seeking safe passage.
The young United States fought two Barbary Wars (1801–1805, 1815) after refusing to pay protection money, giving rise to the Marine Corps hymn's "shores of Tripoli."
- corsairsSeafaring plunderers
- sea raidersWaterborne attackers of ships
- MaghrebNorthwest African region
- TripoliLibyan seat of government
- Mediterranean SeaIntercontinental landlocked water body
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- Barbary PiratesBarbary Coast, Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis, ransom
- Mediterranean Navalgalley, trireme, bireme, fleet, Salamis
- piracytorrents, buccaneers, looting, keygen, pirated movies
- Tunisian HistoryCarthage, Hannibal, Tunis, Punic Wars, Phoenicians
- Maghreb HistoryMorocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Algiers, Marrakech
- invadersinvaders, raiders, marauders, pillagers, plunderers