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Barbary Coast

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Barbary Coast, North Africa The historical name for the North African coastline stretching westwards from Egypt to the Atlantic. The name comes from the region's inhabitants, the Berbers, whose name may be attributed to the Greek barbaros ‘barbarous’, that is, people who did not speak Greek, or foreigners. Muslim pirates operated from coastal cities, preying upon Mediterranean shipping during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

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Barbary Coast

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Barbary Coast , waterfront area of San Francisco, Calif., in the years after the 1849 gold rush. Gamblers, gangsters, prostitutes, and confidence men flourished, and the brothels, saloons, and disreputable boardinghouses made the Barbary Coast—named after the pirate coast of North Africa—notorious throughout the world.

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