The Barbary pirates, sometimes called Barbary Corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were Ottoman pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in the ports of Sal , Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.
Their predation extended throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa\'s Atlantic seaboard and even South America, 1] and into the North Atlantic as far north as I.
This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, a term derived from the name of its Berber inhabitants.
The Barbary pirates, sometimes called Barbary Corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were Ottoman pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in the ports of Sal , Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli