Barbary

Barbary, an extensive region in Northern Africa, comprising the countries known in modern times under the names of Barca, Tripoli Proper, Fezzan, Tunis, Algeria, and Morocco; and in ancient times, under those of Mauritania, Numidia,

Africa Propria, and Cyrenaica. It stretches from Egypt to the Atlantic Ocean, and from the Mediterranean to the Desert of Sahara, or between $10^\{\backslash circ\}$ W. and $25^\{\backslash circ\}$ E. long., and $25^\{\backslash circ\}$ to $37^\{\backslash circ\}$ N. lat. The north-west of this region is divided by the Atlas Mountains into two parts. Though pertaining geographically to Africa, Barbary is not specially African in any of its characteristics; but in climate, flora, fauna, and geological configuration, belongs to that great region which forms the basin of the Mediterranean. Among the races, besides French and other Europeans, may be mentioned Berbers (Kabyles in Algeria), Moors (or Arabs), Jews, Turks, Kuluglis (mixed Moors and Turks), and Negroes. The history of Barbary is a record of successive conquests by Romans, Vandals, Arabs, Turks, and the French (1830). See BERBERS, AFRICA, ALGERIA, MOROCCO, TUNIS, &c.