Gladio Free Europe
a sort of movie, sort of history podcast

Sep 14, 2022

The Barbary Pirates

We take a slight detour in our history of Morocco series to discuss the Barbary Pirate phenomenon.


We return to North Africa this week to explore some of the most infamous and intriguing characters of early modern history: the Corsairs of the Barbary Coast. What compelled Dutch sailors and English knights to “turn Turk” and sail under the Ottoman flag? What does Miguel de Cervantes have to do with a famous mosque in Istanbul? And were pirate attacks on Ireland an inside job? We going into all this and more in our episode on the notorious pirates of the Mediterranean.

Hosted by Liam, and Russian Sam.


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