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Corsairs Of Algiers
The ta'ifa of raïs ( ar, طائفة الريس, ''community of corsair captains'') or the Raïs for short, were Barbary pirates based in Ottoman Algeria who were involved in Barbary pirates, piracy and the Barbary slave trade, slave trade in the Mediterranean Sea from the 16th to the 19th century. They were an ethnically mixed group of seafarers, including mostly "renegades" from European provinces of the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the North Sea, along with a minority of Turks and Moors. Such crews were experienced in naval combat, making Algiers a formidable pirate base. Its activity was directed against the Spanish Empire, Spanish empire, but it did not neglect the coasts of Sicily, Sardinia, Naples or Provence. It was the ''taifa'' which, through its seizures, maintained the prosperity of Algiers and its finances. The corsair ''taifa'' of Algiers reached the zenith of its power in the first half of the seventeenth century as an Ottoman military elite, theoritically. U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Jure
In law and government, ''de jure'' ( ; , "by law") describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality. In contrast, ("in fact") describes situations that exist in reality, even if not legally recognized. Examples Between 1805 and 1914, the ruling dynasty of Egypt were subject to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire, but acted as de facto independent rulers who maintained a polite fiction of Ottoman suzerainty. However, starting from around 1882, the rulers had only de jure rule over Egypt, as it had by then become a British puppet state. Thus, by Ottoman law, Egypt was de jure a province of the Ottoman Empire, but de facto was part of the British Empire. In U.S. law, particularly after ''Brown v. Board of Education'' (1954), the difference between de facto segregation (segregation that existed because of the voluntary associations and neighborhoods) and de jure segregation (segregation that existed because of local laws that m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
