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| | Barbary Coast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Barbary Coast, or Barbary, was the term used by Europeans until the 19th century to refer to the coastal regions of what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. |
 | | It also evokes the Barbary pirates, based on the North African coast, who attacked shipping in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic. |
 | | However, from a European perspective its "capital" or chief city was often considered to be Tripoli, in modern-day Libya, although Algiers, in Algeria, and Tangiers, in Morocco, were also sometimes seen as its "capital" by Europeans of the era. |
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