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Pirates of the Mediterranean: Smugglers and Pirates

2006
Think of a pirate in your mind. What image do you see? A flamboyant man wearing a long coat, with a cutlass and maybe a peg leg and an eye patch? If so, your image is based on pirates of the 1700s, but that is just one era in the long and violent history of piracy. In our site, we are focusing on the pirates of the Mediterranean.