In the first half of the 1600s, Barbary corsairs - pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa, authorised by their governments to attack the shipping of Christian countries ...

Much of the western coastline of North Africa, from modern-day Morocco to Libya, was known as the "Barbary Coast" at the time — a name derived from the Berber people who lived there; and its ...

Eventually, the North African states took to piracy once again while the U.S. was busy with the War of 1812. When the Navy returned for the Second Barbary War in 1815, they were battle-hardened ...

Despite that designation, they weren’t actually Turks exactly but rather Barbary pirates who, as their name indicates, had their bases in the Barbary Coast (North Africa, encompassing Morocco, Algeria ...

A strain of sheep brought to Texas by former World War II soldiers who had served near the Barbary Coast of North Africa and saw them as game for hunters has thrived so well in their adoptive home ...

Bubble Lounge to Reopen as Barbarossa, Complete with Barbary Coast Theme. ... a Barbary pirate on northern Africa’s Barbary Coast who did some major plundering over the course of his career.

While wild Barbary macaques only live in these countries now, they used to be much more widespread across the north of the continent. Their name reflects this. It refers to the Barbary Coast: a ...

In the first half of the 1600s, Barbary corsairs - pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa, authorised by their governments to attack the shipping of Christian countries ...