Barbary corsairs

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The Barbary corsairs were North African privateers and pirates, primarily from the Ottoman regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, who raided European shipping and coastal settlements in the Mediterranean and Atlantic from the 16th to 19th centuries.


Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Dutch navy of the Republic
engagedInConflictWith
Bou Regreg River ("corsairs of Salé")
historicallyUsedBy
Roman navy ("pirates of Cilicia")
opposed

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