Barbary pirates
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The Barbary pirates, sometimes called Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in the ports of Salé, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.
The The Barbary Pirates: Action against a Venetian galley, c. 1540: 1: Pirate Reis; 2: Venetian commander; 3: Berber musketeer; 4: Venetian sword-and-buckler man; 5: Venetian musketeer
Aruj Barbarossa, known also in Turkish as Oruc Reis, is one of the most notorious pirates in history. He lived between the 15th and 16th centuries, and was one of the most well-known Barbary corsairs. As allies of the Ottomans, the usual targets of Aruj and his corsairs were Christian and other non-Islamic vessels that sailed in the western Mediterranean.
about 1550- Muslim leaders on the Barbary Coast of north Africa begin to exert a pirating effort against Christians in the Mediterranean. This imaginative illustration is by Edward Mortelmans.
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Ottoman pirate admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa
Barbary Pirates
