The Salé Rovers, also Sale Rovers or Salle Rovers, were a dreaded band of
Barbary corsairs
The Barbary pirates, or Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in the ports of Salé, Rabat, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Libya, Tripoli. This area was known i ...
in the 17th century. They formed the
Republic of Salé
The Republic of Salé was a city state at Salé (modern Morocco), during the 17th century. Located at the mouth of the Bou Regreg river, it was founded by Moriscos from the town of Hornachos, in Western Spain. Moriscos were the descendants of ...
on the
Moroccan coast. The most famous of the rovers was
Jan Janszoon
Jan Janszoon van Haarlem, commonly known as Reis Mourad the Younger (c. 1570 – c. 1641), was an Ottoman and Salé Rovers Dutch pirate in Algeria and Morocco who converted to Islam after being captured by a Moorish state in 1618. He began ser ...
, a Dutchman who had been a pirate for Holland in the Mediterranean. He "turned Turk" i.e. converted to Islam after being captured by one of the Moorish states in 1618 and became known as Murat Reis.
See also
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Anglo-Turkish piracy
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Ahmed el Inglizi
Ahmed el Inglizi ("Ahmed the English"), also Ahmed El Alj or Ahmed Laalaj ("Ahmed the Renegade"), was an English renegade architect and engineer who worked for the Sultan of Morocco Mohammed ben Abdallah in the 18th century. As described by his ...
References
5. C.S. Forester
The Barbary Pirates
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1953
Barbary pirates
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