Barbary Coast
Videos
The Barbary 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
Ex-voto of a naval battle between a Turkish ship from Algiers (front) and a ship of the Order of Malta under Langon, 1719
Purchase of Christian captives in the Barbary states
Berbers
Videos
Berbers, also known as Amazighs or Imazighen, are an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa. They are primarily connected by their use of Berber languages, which are part of the Afroasiatic language
Barbary Coast
…regencies in Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, as well as the Sultanate of Morocco from the 16th to 19th centuries. The term originates from an exonym for the Berbers (now called Amazigh). Barbary was not always a unified political entity. From the 16th century onward, it was divided into four political entities—from…
Hoggar painting, Tassili n'Ajjer
An Egyptian statuette representing a Libyan Libu Berber from the reign of Rameses II (19th Dynasty) in 1279–1213 BC. (Louvre Museum, Paris)
Ancient Libyan delegation at Persepolis.
Masinissa (c. 240 – c. 148), King of Numidia, Berber and Roman script