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    Barbary Coast

    1975 · Western · 1 season

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    • 1. Funny Money
      1. Funny Money Sep 8, 1975
      • Jeff needs a new plan when his pursuit of counterfeit money ends with the death of the culprit.
    • 2. Crazy Cats
      2. Crazy Cats Sep 15, 1975
      • Jeff Cable goes under cover as a mercenary reporter to recover stolen jade cat statues.
    • 3. Jesse Who?
      3. Jesse Who? Sep 22, 1975
      • A newspaper reports that Jesse James has robbed a bank.
  2. Barbary Coast. The Barbary Coast (also Barbary, Berbery or Berber Coast) was the name given to the coastal regions of central and western North Africa or more specifically the Maghreb and the Ottoman borderlands consisting of the regencies in Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, as well as the Sultanate of Morocco from the 16th to 19th centuries.

  3. The Barbary Coast was a red-light district during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries in San Francisco that featured dance halls, concert saloons, bars, jazz clubs, variety shows, and brothels. [1] Its nine block area was centered on a three block stretch of Pacific Street, now Pacific Avenue, between Montgomery and Stockton ...

  4. Barbary, former designation for the coastal region of North Africa bounded by Egypt (east), by the Atlantic (west), by the Sahara (south), and by the Mediterranean Sea (north), and now comprising Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. The name originates from that of the Berbers, the oldest known

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  5. Feb 2, 2021 · Learn about the history of the Barbary slave trade, when up to 1.25 million Europeans were captured by corsairs and sold as slaves in the Mediterranean. Discover how the trade affected different regions, religions, and ethnicities, and how it ended in the 17th century.

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  7. The Barbary pirates, Barbary corsairs, or Ottoman corsairs [1] were mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the Barbary states. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, in reference to the Berbers. [2] Slaves in Barbary could be of many ethnicities, and of many different religions, such as Christian, Jewish, or Muslim. [3]

  8. Barbary pirate, any of the Muslim pirates operating from the coast of North Africa, most powerful during the 17th century but still active until the 19th century. They gained political significance during the 16th century, when Barbarossa united Algeria and Tunisia as military states under the Ottoman sultanate.

  9. Feb 17, 2011 · In the first half of the 1600s, Barbary corsairs - pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa, authorised by their governments to attack the shipping of Christian countries - ranged all around ...

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