[DOC] [TLE] Barbary pirates - Wikipedia [PAR] The Barbary pirates, sometimes called Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, 
were pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in 
the ports of Sal, Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. This area was known in 
Europe as the Barbary Coast, a term derived from the name of its Berber 
inhabitants. .... After English colonists began to go to North America and be taken 
captive by... [DOC] [TLE] Barbary Coast - Wikipedia [PAR] The Barbary Coast, or Berber Coast, was the term used by Europeans from the 
16th until the ... The name is derived from the Berber people of north Africa. ... 
Pirate Coast, region in the Persian Gulf conquered by Europeans in the early 
19th... [DOC] [TLE] Berbers - Wikipedia [PAR] Berbers or Amazighen are an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa. They are 
distributed in an area stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Siwa ... After the 
colonization of North Africa by France, "the French government succeeded .... 
Scholars believe it would be the same tribe called a few centuries afterwards in 
Greek... [DOC] [TLE] North Africa - Wikipedia [PAR] North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of Africa. The United 
Nations .... Today the largest ethnic groups in North Africa are Berbers, Arabs and 
West ... The Sudan is home to a predominately Arab Muslim population, although 
.... After the Middle Ages the area was loosely under the control of the Ottoman... [DOC] [TLE] Maghreb - Wikipedia [PAR] The Maghreb or the Greater Maghreb (Arabic:       al-Maghrib al-
Kabr), is usually defined as much or most of the region of western North Africa or 
Northwest Africa, west of Egypt. .... The Berbers contested outside-the-area 
control although after the 640s-700 AD period the Arabs controlled the ...... Pirate 
Coast. [DOC] [TLE] Moors - Wikipedia [PAR] The term Moors refers to the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, North Africa, the 
Iberian .... In 711 the Islamic Moors of Arab and Berber descent in North Africa 
crossed the Strait of ... The Muslims were resisted in parts of the Iberian 
Peninsula in areas of the northwest ... They were respectively called marranos 
and moriscos. [DOC] [TLE] Barbary | historical region, Africa | Britannica.com [PAR] Former designation for the coastal region of North Africa bounded by Egypt ... 
The name originates from that of the Berbers, the oldest known inhabitants of the 
region, ... From the 16th to the 18th century, after the weakening of Turkish rule 
had ... so tolerated or even organized piracy that they came to be called pirate 
states. [DOC] [TLE] African Moors: The Appearance of the Original Berbers According to ... [PAR] Sep 12, 2008 ... 1809 Commentary on those called Moors by an early 19th century observer: ... 
1914  Archeologists observance of the ancient North Africans ..... The French 
named the River Niger after the Berber word Ger meaning River. ..... 
populations where present in the area when it was a green palin full of life. [DOC] [TLE] Berbers (Imazighen) of North Africa: Libya, Algeria & Morocco [PAR] The Berbers or Imazighen of North Africa; Mazigh, Amazigh or Tamazight 
language; ... after it was introduced to them by Berber Leo Africanus, without 
questioning its ... Northern Mali was home for the largest concentration of Tuareg 
in the ... In today's Arab Egypt the Siwans, like all other Berbers across the region, 
still are... [DOC] [TLE] HISTORY OF NORTH AFRICA [PAR] HISTORY OF NORTH AFRICA including Arab conquests, Muslim North Africa, 
The ... the Byzantine fortified town of Babylon (in the area which is now Old Cairo)
. The Arabs capture it after a siege and establish their own garrison town just to 
the east, ... With a Berber army he crosses the straits of Gibraltar and enters 
Spain. [DOC] [TLE] BRIA 18 1 a The United States and the Barbary Pirates ... [PAR] What should the United States do about North African pirate states that plundered 
... the southern coastline of the Mediterranean Sea were called the Barbary 
States. ... Named after the Berbers, one of North Africa's native peoples, the

Question: The North African area that was home to pirates was called this after the Berbers
Answer: the Barbary Coast