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Tango01

27 Sep 2014 10:43 p.m. PST

"By 1714, the Ottoman province (vilayet – representative of the Ottoman Sultan) of Tripoli, was asserted as semi-independent from the Ottoman Sultan. The Pashas of Tripoli were expected to pay a regular tributary tax to the Sultan, but were in all other aspects rulers of an independent kingdom. The Tripoli vilayet, maintained an Ottoman Navy fleet of "Kalyon"; these were Ottoman galleon (Ottoman man o' war), otherwise known as the Corsairs. The fleets' brazen piracy led to the US-Tripoli war…"

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