Barbary States
the name for Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli when they were centers of corsair activity, c1520–1830.
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Two other Barbary States, Morocco and Tunis, began to be impudent because they did not get enough money.
Hero Stories from American History | Albert F. BlaisdellWe also enclose copies of a correspondence on the subject of negotiation with the Barbary States.
Tunis, like the other Barbary States, is traversed by the mountains of the Atlas range, which finally terminate here.
The World and Its People: Book VII | Anna B. BadlamSouth of the Barbary States, in the mountainous districts of the Atlas range, is found a peculiar kind of timber growth.
The World and Its People: Book VII | Anna B. BadlamAnd I heard the fellow telling his comrades my strange companion with the tangled hair was a pirate from the Barbary States.
Heralds of Empire | Agnes C. Laut
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