from Spain, and for a long time the Barbary Coast became a stronghold of piracy that particularly ravaged the Spanish Mediterranean coast. During the Reconquista...

from the largely independent Barbary states. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, in reference to the Berbers. Slaves in Barbary could...

The Barbary Wars were a series of two wars fought by the United States, Sweden, and the Kingdom of Sicily against the Barbary states (including Tunis...

The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Tripolitan War and the Barbary Coast War, was a conflict during the 1801–1815 Barbary Wars, in which...

the Treaty of Tripoli) and supported U.S. diplomatic efforts on the Barbary Coast. Commissioner Plenipotentiary (and Minister to the Kingdom of Spain...

The Expedition to Mostaganem of 1543 was a failed expedition against the Algerian city of Mostaganem by the Spanish forces of Count Alcaudete. After the...

For more than three centuries, Spanish, French, British, Dutch and later the U.S navies fought the Barbary states until the early 19th century, when they...

and personnel. As Spanish power in the Mediterranean declined and Spain’s interest in North Africa waned, Algerine foreign relations reached a balance...

the Mediterranean coast from the Moroccan mainland. Morocco's foreign policy has focused on Western partners, including neighboring Spain. Relations have...

on the Barbary Coast, North Africa, the Barbary pirates raided ships traveling through the Mediterranean and along the northern and western coasts of...

rebel, including the Republic of Salé, a city-state ruled by Barbary corsairs. Among the main targets of the corsairs of Salé was Spain, which held several...

remained as major economic partners of Ajuran Sultanate. Barbary Coast Barbary corsairs Spanish-Moroccan Wars Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts Anglo-Moroccan...

Spain and Italy. From bases on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, the Barbary pirates raided ships traveling through the Mediterranean and along the northern...

The ta'ifa of raïs (Arabic: طائفة الريس, community of corsair captains) or the Raïs for short, were Barbary pirates based in Ottoman Algeria who were...

The Dutch–Barbary war, also referred to as the Dutch–Algerian war (1618–1622), was a conflict that originated from the activities of Barbary pirates targeting...

parallel north. For decades prior to Jefferson's accession to office, the Barbary Coast pirates of North Africa had been capturing American merchant ships...

or the Anglo-Barbary piracy was the collaboration between Barbary pirates and English pirates against Catholic shipping during the 17th century. The Protestants...

defeat the Barbary pirates in the First Barbary War. American merchant vessels began to fall prey to Barbary Pirates, along the so-called "Barbary Coast" of...

Constantinople remained loose at best, much like in the rest of the Barbary Coast of North Africa. Under the Ottomans, the Maghreb was divided into three provinces...

Thomas Wyndham in 1551, and the 1585 establishment of the English Barbary Company, trade developed between England and the Barbary states, and especially Morocco...

the Barbary Coast", BBC, 1 July 2003 Davis, Robert C. (2003). Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast...

fought in the Quasi-War, the First and Second Barbary Wars, the War of 1812, the Second Sumatran Expedition, the Mexican–American War and the American...

Anglo-Spanish relations, and in the following year the English detained several treasure ships sent by the Spanish to supply their army in the Netherlands...

territories in North America—and with conflicts with the Barbary pirates. George Washington took office in 1789 after winning the 1788 presidential election...

The plazas de soberanía (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈplaθas ðe soβeɾaˈni.a]), meaning "strongholds of sovereignty", are a series of Spanish overseas territories...

The Regency of Algiers was an early modern semi-independent Ottoman province and nominal vassal state on the Barbary Coast of North Africa from 1516 to...

at war with Spain, the Netherlands, Prussia, Denmark, Russia, and Naples. In March of that year, in what became the Second Barbary War, the United States...

Slaves on the Barbary Coast", BBC, 1 July 2003 Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman (10 January 2009). The Politics of Secularism in International Relations. Princeton...

in the early 19th century. Greek and Barbary pirates had close relations, with many Greeks sailing on Barbary ships. A substantial proportion of the Greek...

followed the court to Rio de Janeiro in 1810 and returned with it to Lisbon in 1822. The U.S. and Portugal fought together in the First Barbary War (1801–1805)...