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.
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
Sack of Baltimore
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The sack of Baltimore took place on 20 June 1631, when the village of Baltimore in West Cork, Ireland, was attacked by pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa – the raiders included Algerians a
Turkish Abductions
…Barbary slave trade Sack of Baltimore Sklavenkasse…
Entrance to Baltimore bay
Baltimore Bay on the south coast