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294933417
STA
Approved
UPD
2012-03-23
DUT
kaapvaart
IND
1
PPN
294933417
UDC
341.362.1_960:340.141.1
SN
The capture of merchant shipping by armed vessels owned and officered by private individuals holding a government commission, especially along the shores of the Mediterranean in the 16th to 18th century, when corsairs operated from the so-called Barbary States in North Africa.
MRF
341.362.1
UF
corsairs
RT
offences against property
piracy
BSO
10.05.01 CRIMES AND CRIMINALITY
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