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 ...

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 ...

Piracy Spreads Across Africa Coast The dramatic story of the Maersk Alabama is unfolding off the coast of Somalia, but in a different area from most of the other recent pirate attacks. The attack ...

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 ...

Beginning in 1784, raiders from these statelets along the Barbary coast, ... Moreover, just as the pirates were essentially an extension of their North African rulers, ...

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 ...

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 ...