Barbary States

plural noun

1. the name for Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli when they were centers of corsair activity, c1520–1830.

Example Sentences

Two other Barbary states, Morocco and Tunis, began to be impudent because they did not get enough money.

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We also enclose copies of a correspondence on the subject of negotiation with the Barbary States.

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Tunis, like the other Barbary States, is traversed by the mountains of the Atlas range, which finally terminate here.

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South of the Barbary States, in the mountainous districts of the Atlas range, is found a peculiar kind of timber growth.

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And I heard the fellow telling his comrades my strange companion with the tangled hair was a pirate from the Barbary States.

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