Near what sea were the Barbary States located?
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Barbary treaties The Barbary Treaties refer to several treaties between the United States of America and the semi-autonomous North African city-states of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, known collectively as the Barbary States.
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Algiers Algiers (Arabic: الجزائر ‎ ‎ , "al-Jazā’er"; Algerian Arabic pronunciation: دزاير Dzayer, Berber: , French: "Alger" ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. In 2011, the city's population was estimated to be around 3,500,000. An estimate puts the population of the larger metropolitan city to be around 5,000,000. Algiers is located on the Mediterranean Sea and in the north-central portion of Algeria.
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Barbarikon Barbarikon (Βαρβαρικόν in greek) was the name of a sea port near the modern-day city of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, important in the Hellenistic era in Indian Ocean trade. It comes from the Greek word of the term (also in Latin Barbaricum), designating areas outside the civilization and/or the Roman Empire and the Greek world.
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Cilicia (Roman province) Cilicia was an early Roman province, located on what is today the southern (Mediterranean) coast of Turkey. Cilicia was annexed to the Roman Republic in 64 BC by Pompey, as a consequence of his military presence in the east, after pursuing victory in the Third Mithridatic War. It was subdivided by Diocletian in around 297, and it remained under Roman, and subsequently Byzantine, rule for several centuries, until falling to the Islamic conquests.
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Tartary Tartary (Latin: "Tartaria") or Great Tartary (Latin: "Tartaria Magna") was a name used from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century to designate the great tract of northern and central Asia stretching from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, settled mostly by Turko-Mongol peoples after the Mongol invasion and the subsequent Turkic migrations.
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Azerbaijan (Iran) Azerbaijan or Azarbaijan (Persian: آذربایجان‎ ‎ "Āzarbāijān" ] ; Azerbaijani: آذربایجان‎ "Azərbaycan" ), also known as Iranian Azerbaijan, is a region in northwestern Iran that borders Iraq, Turkey, the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan. Iranian Azerbaijan is administratively divided into West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, and Zanjan provinces. The region is mostly populated by Azerbaijanis, with minority populations of Kurds, Armenians, Tats, Talysh, Assyrians and Persians.
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Sea of Zanj The Sea of Zanj (Arabic: بحر زنج‎ ‎ ) is a former name for that portion of the western Indian Ocean adjacent to the region in the African Great Lakes referred to by medieval Arab geographers as Zanj. The Sea of Zanj was deemed a fearful zone by Arab mariners and legends regarding dangers in the waters abounded, especially near its far southern limits.
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Bay of Beylul Bay of Beylul or Bēylul Bahir Selat'ē, also known as Badi Bay, is a bay on the Red Sea, on the coast of Eritrea. The bay is located about 450 km southeast of Asmara.
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Azerbaijan Azerbaijan ( ; Azerbaijani: "Azərbaycan" , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: "Azərbaycan Respublikası" )), is a country in the South Caucasus region, situated at the crossroads of Southwest Asia and Southeastern Europe. It is bound by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west and Iran to the south. The exclave of Nakhchivan is bound by Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, while having an 11 km border with Turkey in the north west.
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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea or Periplus of the Red Sea (Greek: Περίπλους τῆς Ἐρυθράς Θαλάσσης , Latin: "Periplus Maris Erythraei" ) is a Greco-Roman periplus, written in Greek, describing navigation and trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports like Berenice along the coast of the Red Sea, and others along Northeast Africa and the Sindh and South western India. The text has been ascribed to different dates between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE, but a mid-1st-century date is now the most commonly accepted. While the author is unknown, it is clearly a firsthand description by someone familiar with the area and is nearly unique in providing accurate insights into what the ancient European world knew about the lands around the Indian Ocean.
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Ambarchik Bay Ambarchik Bay (Russian: бухта Амбарчик ) is a shallow bay in the eastern Kolyma Gulf in the East Siberian Sea. The location is within the Sakha Autonomous Republic, Russia, located approximately 1700 km (by air) north-east of Yakutsk. The port and polar station of Ambarchik (a transit station during the Gulag), is located on the coastline of the bay.
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Montenegrin Littoral The Coastline of Montenegro, also called the Montenegrin Littoral (Montenegrin and Serbian: "Crnogorsko primorje"/Црногорско приморје ), historically the Littoral or the Maritime, is the littoral region in Montenegro which borders the Adriatic Sea. Prior to the Creation of Yugoslavia, the Montenegrin Littoral was not part of the Kingdom of Montenegro, but rather a bordering region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, latterly part of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.
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Qit'at Jaradah Qit'at Jaradah is a cay in the Persian Gulf off the east of Bahrain Island, located 32 km east of Manama, the capital of Bahrain. Historically, it is above water only during spring low tide and is approximately mid-way between Bahrain and Qatar , within the 12 mi territorial water of both countries.
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Red Sea (disambiguation) The Red Sea is a body of water between Africa and Asia, and in the Indian Ocean.
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Geography of Israel The geography of Israel is very diverse, with desert conditions in the south, and snow-capped mountains in the north. Israel is located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea in western Asia. It is bounded to the north by Lebanon, the northeast by Syria, the east by Jordan and the West Bank, and to the southwest by Egypt. To the west of Israel is the Mediterranean Sea, which makes up the majority of Israel's 273 km coastline and the Gaza Strip. Israel has a small coastline on the Red Sea in the south.
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Ligurian Sea The Ligurian Sea (Italian: "Mar Ligure" ; French: "Mer Ligurienne" ) is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, between the Italian Riviera (Liguria and Tuscany) and the island of Corsica. The sea is probably named after the ancient Ligures people.
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Malacca Banks The Malacca Banks are sandbanks (shoals) below the sea surface, in the Gulf of Khambhat in Gujarat, India. They lie to the west and southwest of the port of Surat and are a system of four irregular ridges running roughly from north to south parallel with the entrance channels to the Gulf. They extend from to .
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Libya Libya (Arabic: ليبيا‎ ‎ "Lībiyā ") is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west. The country is made of three historical regions, Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. With an area of almost 1.8 e6km2 , Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa, and is the 16th largest country in the world. Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world.
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Bat Yam Bat Yam (Hebrew: בַּת יָם‎ , Arabic: بات يام‎ ‎ ) is a city located on Israel's Mediterranean Sea coast, on the central coastal strip, just south of Tel Aviv. Part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area in Tel Aviv District, the city had a population of 128,904 in 2016 .
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Circassian coast Circassian coast (Adyghe: Адыгэ хы аушу "Adyge xy aušu" ; Russian: Черкесское побережье "Čerkesskoe poberž′e or" Черкесское причерноморье "Čerkesskoe pričernomorje" ) was the coast of historical Circassia on the Black Sea before 1864, extending from Anapa in the North to Adler in the south, and including cities like Tuapse and Sochi.
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Budjak Budjak or Budzhak (Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian: Буджак, "Budžak"; Romanian: "Bugeac" ; Gagauz: "Bucak" , historical Cyrillic: "Буӂак"; Turkish: "Bucak" ) is a historical region in Ukraine. Lying along the Black Sea between the Danube and Dniester rivers, this thinly populated multi-ethnic 600,000-people region of 13,188 km is located in the southern Bessarabia. Nowadays, part of the Odessa Oblast, the region is bordered to the north and west by Moldova, to the south by Romania, and to the east by the Black Sea and the rest of Ukraine.
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Minina Skerries The Minina Skerries (Russian: Шхеры Минина; "Shkhery Minina") are located in the Kara Sea, in the northwestern shores of Siberia. They stretch between the Mikhailov Peninsula and the mouths of the river Pyasina. Their latitude is between 74° and 75° N, and their longitude between 84° and 87° 30' E.