Grindavík
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Grindavík is a fishing town in the Southern Peninsula district of Iceland, located near Þorbjörn.
Aerial view of Grindavík in 2025
Grindavík from the air in 2022
Grindavík harbour
Turkish Abductions
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The Turkish Abductions were a series of slave raids by pirates from Algiers and Salé that took place in Iceland in the summer of 1627.
Grindavík
…including John. The English were subsequently expelled from Iceland. In June 1627, Grindavík was raided by Barbary Pirates in an event known as the Turkish Abductions. Twelve Icelanders and three Danes, along with two vessels were taken, and with captives taken from other Icelandic settlements, transported into slavery…
Europeans being sold at the slave market in Algiers, Ottoman Algeria, 1684
Barbary pirate depicted by Pier Francesco Mola (1612–1666)
Fjords of the south-east of Iceland