For other meanings, see
Barbary Coast (disambiguation).Berberia redirects here. For the
butterfly genus, see
Berberia (genus).The Barbary Coast, or Barbary, was the term used by
Europeans from the 16th until the 19th century to refer to the coastal regions of what is now
Morocco,
Algeria,
Tunisia, and
Libya. The name is derived from the
Berber people of north
Africa. In the West, the name commonly evokes the
Barbary pirates and
slave traders, based on that coast, who attacked shipping coastal settlements in the
Mediterranean and North
Atlantic and captured and traded slaves from
Europe and
sub-Saharan Africa.
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