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Les corsaires de Salé

Roger Coindreau · Société d'éditions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales (Paris), for the Institut des hautes études marocaines (Rabat) · 1948

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Book
Author
Roger Coindreau
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2026-09-01
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Classic French study, 240 pp., preface by Henri Bosco (BnF record linked). Earlier metadata naming the Institut as publisher and a 2006 reprint could not be confirmed; the Institut was the scientific editor.

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EstablishedIn 1627 the Hornachero Moriscos in the Bou Regreg kasbah proclaimed their independence and governed through an annually elected governor (caïd) and a sixteen-member divan; under an agreement of May 1630 the Andalusian Moriscos elected a caïd of their own and named half of the divan.EstablishedSalé's economy rested almost entirely on privateering against Christian shipping and the trade in captives; under the early Alaouite sultans the corsair war continued, but the sultan organised it and took the largest share of the booty.