Algiers, a thriving city under Ottoman control, served as the strategic center for Mediterranean piracy. Between 1525 and ...

During the time of the corsairs, the city was a hub for pirates on the Barbary Coast. They were constantly on the lookout for European ships and coastal settlements in the Mediterranean to raid.

A Pirates of the Caribbean-inspired ship is sailing from Ayia Napa in Cyprus, on regular four-hour cruises. The "Black Pearl" has food, drink, party games, and even its own Captain Jack Sparrow on ...

New ideas of security spelled the end of piracy on the Mediterranean Sea during the nineteenth century. As European states ended their military conflicts and privateering wars against one another, ...

From William Kidd to Helen Gloag, meet the daring Scots whose exploits rivalled the Caribbean’s most famous buccaneers.