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Example sentences for: barbary

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By comparison, the coastal settlements languished, and were subject to frequent raids by Barbary pirates.
And the forbidding, fortified cathedral that stands just inland from the waterfront Paseo de Almería was built during the 16th century, when Barbary pirates were terrorizing the coast (see page 18).
•The moment that the Spanish monarchs looked the other way, the daring pirates of the North African Barbary Coast — and elsewhere — moved in.
As mediterrancean Lingua Franca was used on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, there were many words that it borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese.
The United States fought its first war against the Barbary Pirates, who terrorized U.S. shipping in the Mediterranean at the turn of the 19 th century.