History Of Piracy List
Types of Pirates:
| The Buccaneers - Brief history of the 17th century pirates and their conflicts with Spain in the New World. |
| The Pirates - General text about pirates. Description who they indeed were, and why are they so notorious and exciting. |
| The Privateers - The facts about naval soldiers who can be described as pirates only in a style of their actions. |
| The Vikings - Terrifying warriors who pillaged Europe a thousand years ago. Their action and behavior associate them to the classic pirates. |
History of Piracy:
| Ancient Piracy - An article about the oldest pirates and how they affected great Greek, and latter Roman Empire. |
| Golden Age Of Piracy - An article about the short period between 1680 and 1730, when pirates were most influential in history of piracy. |
| Modern Piracy - Facts about modern sea-criminals who are often called "pirates". |
| Piracy Timeline - Here you can find out more about timeline of piracy and its most important facts. From its first beginnings 3000 years ago in Mediterranean, most famous ages of piracy in Central America and Indian sea, to the modern day struggles of the coast of Somalia. |
| Somali Pirates - Throughout the history times of war and poverty always had big effect on the creation of pirate activity. This effect can even today be observed of the coast of Somalia, where instable governments, civil wars and widespread poverty and crime created the need for massive pirate fleets that endanger the lives of thousands each year. |
Regions and Places:
| New Providence - Famous pirates' hideout which latter transformed into the center base of the Caribbean surpassing piracy. |
| Port Royal - Facts about Port Royal, famous bucaneers' hideout, that was once called "the richest and wickedest city in the world". |
| Tortuga - This little island and the small north-west part of Hispaniola was the strongest buccaneers' base for many years, and alongside Port Royal, the most important in buccaneers' history. |
| West Indies - Text about geographic location and brief history off the West Indies. |
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