Generic term used for all pirates of the Mediterranean Sea in the 2nd and 1st century BC
Cilician pirates dominated the Mediterranean Sea from the 2nd century BC until their suppression by Pompey in 67–66 BC. Because there were notorious pirate strongholds in Cilicia, on the southern coast of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), the term "Cilician" was long used to generically refer to any pirates in the Mediterranean.
Cilicianpirates dominated the Mediterranean Sea from the 2nd century BC until their suppression by Pompey in 67–66 BC. Because there were notorious pirate...
The Republic of Pirates was the base and stronghold of a loose confederacy run by privateers-turned-pirates in Nassau on New Providence island in the...
as he did during his campaigns in Sicily and Africa, or against the Cilicianpirates. During the Sertorian war, on the other hand, Pompey was beaten several...
Aegean Sea in 75 BC, Julius Caesar was kidnapped and briefly held by Cilicianpirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa. The Senate...
likely that it was in the context of Mithridates' alliance with the Cilicianpirates that there arose the synchretistic link between Perseus and Mithra...
copyrights to Pirates and their other operas. Fiction and plays about pirates were ubiquitous in the 19th century. Walter Scott's The Pirate (1822) and James...
International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers of Albany, Oregon, who proclaimed September 19...
campaign against pirates and the Isauri in Cilicia. In 77 and 76 he achieved a number of naval victories against the pirates off the Cilician coast, and was...
historical pirates to appear as enemies in Sid Meier's Pirates! Jack is one of sixteen historical pirates selectable as "Pirate King" in Tropico 2: Pirate Cove...
over Colchis. The Mediterranean had at this time fallen into the hands of pirates, largely from Cilicia. Rome had destroyed many of the states that had previously...
Levant. Pontus won the Battle of Chalcedon (74 BC), gave support to Cilicianpirates against Roman commerce, and the third war soon began. For the third...
also commonly carried by officers on naval warships, by privateers and by pirates for use in close-quarters boarding actions. The Portuguese Marines used...
Libya, in April 1805. It was part of an effort to destroy the Barbary pirates and end piracy between warring tribes by the Barbary states, which were...
Markstein, Don. "Pirates of Dark Water". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 2020-04-02. "Pirates of Darkwater DVD news: Announcement for Pirates of Darkwater...
intending to return to them later (often with the use of a pirate’s treasure map). Pirates burying treasure was a rare occurrence, with the only known...
A pirate code, pirate articles, or articles of agreement were a code of conduct for governing pirates. A group of sailors, on turning pirate, would draw...
of the Barbary corsairs and East Asian pirates in this "Golden Age," noting that "as these Mussulman pirates and those of Eastern Asia were as busily...
The Barbary pirates, Barbary corsairs, or Ottoman corsairs were mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the Barbary states. This area was...
associates. Dubbed "The Arch Pirate" and "The King of Pirates" by contemporaries, Every was infamous for being one of very few major pirate captains to escape with...
near Messina. According to Plutarch, Spartacus made a bargain with Cilicianpirates to transport him and some 2,000 of his men to Sicily, where he intended...
and the pirates. Silver tells Jim that when everyone found the ship was gone, Captain Smollett's party had agreed to a truce whereby the pirates take the...
This is a list of pirate films and TV series, primarily in the pirate film genre, about the Golden Age of Piracy from the 17th through 18th centuries...
the pirates back to a pirate mothership and captured them. They confiscated the pirates' weapons and freed 20 Yemeni fishermen whom the pirates had kidnapped...