Barbary, former designation for the coastal region of North Africa bounded by Egypt (east), by the Atlantic (west), by the Sahara (south), and by the Mediterranean Sea (north), and now …

Barbary was not always a unified political entity. From the 16th century onward, it was divided into four political entities—from west to east—the Alawi Sultanate, the Regency of Algiers, the …

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The original Barbary Coast was the Mediterranean coast of North Africa from Morocco to Egypt, taken as the home of the corsairs and a source of violence and danger.

The Barbary States were a collection of North African states, many of which practiced state-supported piracy in order to exact tribute from weaker Atlantic powers.

What is the Barbary Coast? The Barbary Coast was named for the Berber people of North Africa, who began their habitation of the region in prehistoric times.

For years the rulers of the Barbary States (Algeria, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco) demanded tribute from all nations trading in their waters. Barbary pirates seized passing ships, ransoming the...

The Barbary Coast (also Barbary, Berbery, or Berber Coast) were the coastal regions of central and western North Africa, more specifically, the Maghreb and the Ottoman borderlands …

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