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
Jan Janszoon
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Jan Janszoon van Haarlem, commonly known as Reis Mourad the Younger, was a Dutch pirate who later became a Barbary corsair in the Regency of Algiers and the Republic of Salé. After being captured by A
Turkish Abductions
…first group was from Salé and the second one, which came a month later, was from Algiers. The commander of the group from Salé was a Dutchman known as Murat Reis, who had himself turned to piracy after being taken captive by pirates. The group from Salé raided the fishing village of Grindavík on 20 June 1627…
Salé in the 1600s
The walls of Marrakesh and El Badi Palace, by Adriaen Matham, 1640
Ólafur Egilsson was captured by Murat Reis the Younger
Fort Saint Angelo in Valletta, Malta