Region
North African Coast
1 pirate in the codex documented as operating here.
The North African coast from Tangier in the west to Tripoli in the east was the shore-base of the Barbary corsair states from the early sixteenth century to the early nineteenth. The Regencies of Algiers (founded 1516 under the Barbarossa brothers), Tunis (Ottoman from 1574), and Tripoli (Ottoman from 1551) operated as tributary states of the empire with substantial domestic autonomy; the independent Moroccan corsair port of Salé (Sla) operated under the Saadian and subsequent Moroccan dynasties. Each maintained a fleet of galleys, xebecs, and (later) full-rigged ships, a corps of professional captains often of mixed European-Muslim and renegade-Christian origin, and a substantial slave-economy infrastructure for the management of European captives.
