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unusual facts about Barbary corsairs



African military systems to 1800

Over the next several decades Somali-Portuguese tensions would remain high and the increased contact between Somali sailors and Ottoman corsairs worried the Portuguese, prompting the latter to send a punitive expedition against Mogadishu under Joao de Sepuvelda.

Fusta

The fusta was the favorite ship of the North African corsairs of Salé and the Barbary Coast.

Henry Teonge

The diary provides lively reports of two voyages to the Mediterranean and the Levant, including a raid on a fleet of Barbary corsairs at Tripoli in 1675, under the command of Sir John Narborough.

Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis

The name Kurtoğlu means Son of Kurt (Wolf) in Turkish, a family name which Muslihiddin inherited from his father, Kurt Bey, a Turkish seaman from Anatolia who went to northwestern Africa for privateering together with the other Ottoman corsairs of that period such as the Barbarossa brothers, Aruj and Hayreddin Barbarossa.

Turkish Abductions

In 1627 Barbary corsairs from Algiers and Salé descended on Iceland in two separate raids, taking around 400 prisoners (Iceland's population at the time has been estimated to have been then about 60,000).


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