• Pirates is a 1986 adventure comedy film written by Gérard Brach, John Brownjohn, and Roman Polanski and directed by Polanski. It was inspired by Polanski's...
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    needed to reduce the Cilician pirates, perhaps because of the benefits piracy afforded the Romans (the pirates supplied the Romans with cheap slaves – captured...
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    Pompey's campaign against the pirates was the final phase of the campaigns conducted by the Roman Republic against pirates infesting the eastern Mediterranean...
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    Piracy (redirect from Pirates)
    of pirates Piracy in the Atlantic World Piracy kidnappings Pirate code Pirate game Pirate Party Pirate Round Pirate studies Pirate utopia Pirates World...
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    haven for pirates that profited from the slave trade with the Romans. When the Cilician pirates began to attack Roman shipping and towns, the Roman senate...
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  • list of female pirates, see women in piracy. For pirates of fiction or myth, see list of fictional pirates. "CHRISTIANITY", The Roman World 44 Bc–Ad 180...
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  • science fiction Pirates (1986 film), an adventure/comedy directed by Roman Polanski Pirates (2005 film), a pornographic film Pirates (2021 film), a British...
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    half-Iraqi. Lewis made her film debut as a teenager in the 1986 Roman Polanski film Pirates. She followed it that same year with the female lead in The Golden...
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  • proconsul for the Roman province of Cilicia. She was abducted in Italy, during a visit to Misenum (modern Miseno), by the Cilician pirates with whom her father...
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    The Barbary pirates, Barbary corsairs, or Ottoman corsairs were mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the Barbary states. This area was...
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  • Pomegranate Street (2009) The Roman Mysteries Omnibus I: The Thieves of Ostia, the Secrets of Vesuvius and the Pirates of Pompeii. The Roman Mysteries Omnibus II:...
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  • appearing in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. Captain Jack Sparrow is portrayed by Johnny Depp. First introduced in the film Pirates of the Caribbean:...
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  • Jewish and Syrian pirates operating from the Levant. Pompey's journey to Judea may indicate a connection between Jewish and Cilician pirates. As a matter of...
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  • This is a list of pirate films and TV series, primarily in the pirate film genre, about the Golden Age of Piracy from the 17th through 18th centuries...
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    The Roman Empire was the post-Republican state of ancient Rome. It is generally understood to mean the period and territory ruled by the Romans following...
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    English pirates Blackbeard and Calico Jack, the book provided the standard account of the lives of many pirates in the Golden Age, and influenced pirate literature...
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  • Battle of Korakesion (category Naval battles involving pirates)
    between the Cilician Pirates and the Roman Republic. It was the culmination of Pompey the Great's campaign against the pirates of the Mediterranean;...
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    Saxon, Román later worked in the real estate business in Los Angeles briefly. Biography portal Film portal Television portal G.I. Blues (1960) Pirates of...
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  • The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure (Korean: 해적: 도깨비 깃발; Hanja: 海賊: 도깨비 旗발; RR: Haejeok: Dokkaebi Gitbal; lit. The Pirates: Goblin Flag) is a 2022 South...
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    Jim Moir (redirect from Vic Reeves' Pirates)
    Sorrell also appeared in some episodes. Continuing in this vein, Vic Reeves' Pirates was shown on ITV West and, subsequently, on the History Channel in 2007...
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    Wokou (redirect from Japanese Pirates)
    Korean: 왜구; Hanja: 倭寇; RR: Waegu), which translates to "Japanese pirates", were pirates who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th century...
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    directed by Polanski, in Milan, in 1999. Pirates (1986) Nearly seven years passed before Polanski's next film, Pirates, a lavish period piece starring Walter...
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  • to Mileto, Caesar is captured by pirates and taken to their island fortress on the island of Formacusa. The pirates led by Hamar are engaged in hostilities...
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  • The Pirates (Korean: 해적: 바다로 간 산적; lit. "Pirates: Bandits Going to the Sea") is a 2014 South Korean period adventure film starring Son Ye-jin and Kim Nam-gil...
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    Although the majority of pirates in history have been men, there are around a hundred known examples of female pirates, about forty of whom were active...
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    Siege of Mytilene (81 BC) (category Sieges involving the Roman Republic)
    of actively or tacitly aiding pirates in the region. Suetonius credits Marcus Minucius Thermus, the governor of the Roman Asia province, with the victory...
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  • the 'Pirate' Anicetus" in Latomus 65(3), pp. 641–649 Woods, David (2006). "Tacitus, Nero, and the 'Pirate' Anicetus" in Latomus 65(3), p. 648 Roman Fleet...
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  • Oct 1961: 13. Pirates of Tortuga at IMDb Pirates of Tortuga at TCMDB Pirates of Tortuga at AllMovie Pirates of Tortuga at BFI Pirates of Tortuga at the...
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    Pompey (category 1st-century BC Roman augurs)
    spread his forces throughout the Mediterranean to prevent the pirates escaping a Roman fleet by moving elsewhere. Fifteen legates were given specific...
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  • totally inadequate against the pirates, whose power grew rapidly. Over the next decade, the pirates defeated several Roman commanders, and raided unhindered...
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