Barbary Coast
COASTAL REGION OF NORTH AFRICA INHABITED BY BERBER PEOPLE
Barbary; Barbary States; Barbary states; Barbary coast; Barbary state; Barbary State; The Barbary Coast; Barbary Regencies; Berbery; Berber Coast; Algerian coast
The Barbary Coast (also Barbary, Berbery or Berber Coast) was the coastal regions of North Africa or Maghreb, specifically the Ottoman borderlands consisting of the regencies in Algiers and Tripoli, as well as the Beylik of Tunis and the Sultanate of Morocco from the 16th to 19th centuries. The term originates from the name of the Berbers.