The cruises of Barbary pirate vessels were primarily made up of European renegades, Muslims from Ottoman lands in Western Asia and to a much lesser degree, the Amazigh. They sailed a huge expanse ...

Unfortunately, the Ottoman Empire was already decaying and ... If the divisions in the Muslim Mediterranean caused America's pirate problem, then divisions in Christian Europe hindered the solution.

The Barbary corsair pirates were predominantly Muslims who began operating in the 15th century out of Algiers, which was then part of the Ottoman empire. Much of the western coastline of North ...

He personally led the raid, the largest carried out on British soil to date. Under his command was a diverse crew of two hundred men, including Algerian and Ottoman pirates, but also Moroccans; even ...

tea bowls from Ottoman Turkey, and a European spyglass [means] the wreck looks unlike any known regular Mediterranean trader." Lawless pirates ruled the Barbary Coast, which spans modern-day ...

The pirate ship that raided towns and kidnapped ... and tea bowls made in Ottoman Turkey, and the wreck looks highly suspicious. "This was no normal North African coastal trader." ...

the new nation confronted a threat from the Ottoman provinces of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Beginning in 1784, raiders from these statelets along the Barbary coast, known as the Barbary Pirates ...

The Ottomans proceeded to rule Ikaria laxly ... This period was dubbed the "piratiki epochi" (pirate era), with the early years tellingly known as the "century of obscurity".