USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Barbary pirates, Barbary corsairs, or Ottoman corsairs were Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in the ports of Salé, Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, in reference to the Berbers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Named after the Berbers, one of North Africa’s native peoples, the Barbary States were little pirate kingdoms that plundered the merchant ships of many nations. The Barbary pirates were mostly Berbers, Arabs, and other Muslims, but some came from Christian Europe.

Detailed explanation-3: -Barbary. / (ˈbɑːbərɪ) / noun. a historic name for a region of N Africa extending from W Egypt to the Atlantic and including the former Barbary States of Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Detailed explanation-4: -noun. the Barbary Coast a historic name for the Mediterranean coast of North Africa: a centre of piracy against European shipping from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Detailed explanation-5: -Berber, self-name Amazigh, plural Imazighen, any of the descendants of the pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa. The Berbers live in scattered communities across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mali, Niger, and Mauritania.