No Spanish ships or ports were safe when dread pirate Barbarossa, ally of the powerful Ottoman Empire, sailed the high seas. Hayreddin’s brother Oruç was the first to be known as Barbarossa.

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 ...

The second half of the 15th century was a dramatic period in world history with Constantinople falling to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmet II, the Reconquista in Iberia, and Columbus ...

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 ...

There is a long tradition of Jewish pirates in the Middle East, and some continued to operate around Europe. Sinan Reis, known simply as Sinan or the “Great Jew,” was an Ottoman pirate ...

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 ...