The Barbary Coast is the historical name for the coastal areas of central and western North Africa, spanning the Maghreb and encompassing the territories that became Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Tripoli, present day Libya. From the sixteenth through the nineteenth century the coast was the base of the Barbary corsairs, whose raiding and slave trading made it a major factor in Mediterranean naval history, with the fleet of Algiers alone numbering around one hundred ships by 1625.
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The Barbary Coast (also Barbary, Berbery, or Berber Coast) were the coastal areas of central and western North Africa, more specifically, the Maghreb and the Ottoman borderlands consisting of the regencies in Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, as well as the Sultanate of Morocco from the 16th to 19th centuries.
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