Barbary Pirates

History

De: iMinds

Narrado por: Ellouise Rothwell

Duración: 8 m

Resumen del Editor

Learn about the Barbary Pirates with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. For 350 years, from the late 15th century onwards, Europeans travelling by boat in the Mediterranean Sea were under constant threat of pirate attack. But these were not pirates as normally understood; rather, they were Muslim warriors officially sanctioned to plunder ships from Christian countries to kill or enslave anyone they found aboard.

The pirates came from the North African port cities of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and Sale, known collectively as the Barbary States. Although these cities were officially part of the Ottoman Empire, they enjoyed considerable autonomy and lived mainly from the proceeds of piracy.

The ships of the Barbary corsairs, as the pirates were known, were usually owned by the local ruler, or “pasha”, who granted the captain of each ship license to engage in piracy against ships from non-Muslim countries. Local merchants would also invest in corsair ships, which could be a source of handsome profits.

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Eye-Opening History of Barbary Warriors

You can learn a lot in eight minutes in this iMinds short on the Barbary pirates who were actually Muslim privateers operating from North Africa, mostly from the ports of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. In Europe, this area was known as the Barbary Coast. For 350 years onward, from the 1500s, Europeans traveling in the Mediterranean Sea were under constant threat of attack by these pirates. Not really pirates as we would normally understand the term, these pirates were Muslim warriors officially sanctioned to attack ships from Christian countries, taking those aboard captive as slaves or killing them. This has opened my eyes and whetted my appetite to learn more of this period in history.