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•The moment that the Spanish monarchs looked the other way, the daring pirates of the North African Barbary Coast — and elsewhere — moved in.
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).
During the supremacy of the Barbary Coast pirates in the 16th and 17th centuries, Formentera was so vulnerable it had to be abandoned, and it wasn’t resettled until the 18th century.
The lions, monkeys, cheetahs, kangaroos, and polar bears are long gone, but zebra, goats, and Barbary sheep can still be seen.
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.