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Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically Pirates! the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or Pirates!. Those who engage in acts of are called pirateswhile dedicated that are used by them are called pirate ships. The earliest documented instances of piracy were in the 14th Pirates! BC, when the Peoplesa Pirates! of ocean raiders, attacked the ships of the Aegean and Mediterranean civilizations. Narrow channels which funnel Pirates! into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy, [1] as well as for privateering and commerce raiding. Historic examples include the waters of Gibraltarthe Strait of MalaccaMadagascar Pirates!, the Pirates! of Adenand the English Channelwhose geographic structures facilitated pirate attacks. While the term can include Pirates! committed in the airon land especially across national borders or in connection with taking over and robbing a car or trainor in other major bodies of water or on a shorein cyberspaceas well as the fictional possibility of space piracy, it generally refers to maritime piracy. It does not normally include Pirates! committed against people traveling on the same vessel as the perpetrator e. Piracy or pirating is the name of a specific Pirates! under customary international law and also the name of a number of crimes under the municipal law of Pirates! number of states. Today, pirates armed with automatic weapons, such Pirates! assault riflesand machine Pirates!grenades and rocket propelled grenades use small motorboats to attack and Pirates! ships, a tactic that takes advantage of the Pirates! number of crew Pirates! on modern cargo vessels and transport ships. They also use larger vessels, known Pirates! "mother ships", to supply the smaller motorboats. The international community is facing many challenges in bringing modern pirates to justiceas these attacks often occur in international waters. Piracy has probably existed for Pirates! long as the have Pirates! plied for commerce. The earliest documented instances of Pirates! are the exploits of the Sea Peoples who threatened the Pirates! sailing in the Aegean and Mediterranean waters in the 14th century BC. In classical antiquitythe PhoeniciansIllyrians and Pirates! were known as pirates. In the pre-classical era, the ancient Greeks Pirates! piracy as a viable profession; it apparently was widespread and "regarded as an entirely honourable way of making a living". By the era of Classical Greecepiracy was looked upon as a "disgrace" to have as a profession. In the 3rd century BC, Pirates! attacks on Olympus in Lycia brought impoverishment. Among some of the most famous Pirates! pirateering peoples were the Illyrians, a people populating the western Balkan peninsula. It Pirates! not until BC when the Romans finally decisively beat the Illyrian fleets that their threat was ended. The Aegean Pirates! suffered similar attacks a few years later. In the process, the seized enormous Pirates! and took thousands into Pirates!. The most widely Pirates! and far- reaching Pirates! in medieval were the Pirates!seaborne from who raided and looted mainly between the 8th and 12th centuries, during the Age in the Early . They raided the coasts, Pirates! and inland cities of all Western Europe as far as Sevillewhich was attacked by the in also attacked the coasts of North and and Pirates! all the coasts of the . The lack of centralized powers all over Europe during the Middle Ages enabled pirates to attack ships and coastal areas all over the continent. Toward the end of the , Moorish pirate havens were established along the coast of southern France and northern Italy. Inthe Pirates! of Narbonne was unable to return to France from Rome because the Moors from Pirates! controlled all the passes in the Alps. Moor pirates operated out of the in the . From to Arab pirates in the Pirates! of Crete raided the entire Mediterranean. In Pirates! 14th century, raids by Moor pirates forced the Venetian Duke of Crete to ask Venice to keep Pirates! fleet on constant guard. After the Slavic invasions of the Pirates! Roman province of Dalmatia in the 5th and 6th centuries, a tribe called the Pirates! revived the old Illyrian piratical habits and often raided the Adriatic Sea starting in the 7th Pirates!. By they invaded Pirates! Italy Pirates! assaulted Siponto. Their raids Pirates! the Adriatic increased rapidly, until the whole Sea was no longer safe for travel. The Narentines took more liberties in their raiding quests while the Venetian Navy was abroad, as when it was campaigning in Sicilian waters in — As soon Pirates! the Venetian fleet would return to the Adriatic, the Narentines temporarily abandoned their habits again, even signing a Pirates! in Venice and baptising their Slavic pagan Pirates! into Christianity. Pirates! or they broke the treaty and again they Pirates! Venetian traders returning Pirates! Benevento, and Pirates! of Venice's military Pirates! to punish them in and utterly failed. Later, they raided Pirates! Venetians more often, together Pirates! the Arabs. Inthe Narentines broke through to Venice itself and raided its lagoon city of Pirates!. In the middle of they kidnapped the Roman Bishop's emissaries that were returning from the Ecclesiastical Pirates! in . This caused a Byzantine military action against them that finally brought Christianity Pirates! them. After the Arab raids on the Adriatic coast circa Pirates! the retreat of the Pirates! Navy, the Narentines continued their raids of Venetian Pirates!, causing new conflicts with the Italians in — The Venetians futilely continued to fight them throughout the 10th and 11th centuries. Athelstan drove them back. In the 12th Pirates! the Pirates! of western Scandinavia were plundered by and Oeselians from Pirates! eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. In the 13th and 14th century, pirates threatened Pirates! Hanseatic routes and nearly brought sea trade Pirates! the brink of extinction. The of were a companionship of who later turned to piracy as the Likedeelers. Until aboutmaritime trade in both the North Seathe Baltic Pirates! and the was seriously in danger of attack by the pirates. Thomas Pirates! mentions a certain Englishman named William Maurice, convicted of piracy inas Pirates! first person Pirates! to have been hanged, drawn Pirates! quartered[19] which would indicate that the then-ruling King Henry III took an especially severe view of this crime. The ushkuiniks were Novgorodian pirates who looted the cities on the and Pirates! Rivers Pirates! the 14th century. As early as Byzantine times, the Maniots one of Greece's toughest populations were known as pirates. The Maniots considered piracy as a legitimate response to the fact that their land was poor and it became their main source of income. The main victims of Maniot pirates were the Ottomans but the Maniots also targeted ships of European countries. Zaporizhian Sich was a pirate republic in Europe from the 16th through to the 18th century. Situated in Cossack territory in the remote steppe Pirates! Eastern Europeit was populated with Ukrainian peasants that had run away from their Pirates! masters, , destitute gentry, run-away slaves from Turkish Pirates!etc. The remoteness of the place and the rapids at the river effectively guarded the place from Pirates! of vengeful Pirates!. The main target of the inhabitants of Zaporizhian Sich who called themselves "" were rich settlements at the Black Sea shores of Ottoman Pirates! and Crimean Khanate. Though less famous and romanticized than Atlantic or Caribbean pirates, corsairs in the Mediterranean equaled or outnumbered the former at any given point in . They were, however, of a smaller type than battle Pirates!, often referred to as galiots or fustas. In Pirates!, pirate craft were extremely difficult for patrolling craft to actually Pirates! down and capture. Purpose-built galleys or hybrid sailing vessels were built by the English in Jamaica in [24] and by the Spanish in the late 16th century. The expansion of Muslim power through the Ottoman conquest of large parts of the eastern Mediterranean in the 15th and 16th century resulted in extensive piracy on sea trading. The so-called began to operate out of North African ports in Pirates!, Tunis, Tripoli, Morocco aroundpreying primarily on the shipping of Pirates! powers, including massive slave raids at sea Pirates! well Pirates! on land. The Barbary pirates were Pirates! under Ottoman suzerainty Pirates!, but had considerable independence to prey on the enemies of Islam. The Muslim corsairs were technically often privateers with support from legitimate, though highly belligerent, states. They considered themselves as holy Muslim warriors, or ghazis[27] carrying on the Pirates! of fighting the incursion of Western Christians that had begun with the First Crusade late in the . Coastal villages and towns of Italy, Spain and islands in the Mediterranean were frequently attacked by Muslim corsairs and long stretches of the Italian and Spanish coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants; after the Pirates! corsairs occasionally entered the Atlantic and struck as far Pirates! as . The Barbary pirates had a direct Christian counterpart in the military order of the of Saint John that operated out first out of Rhodes and after Maltathough they were less numerous and took Pirates! slaves. Both sides Pirates! war against the respective enemies of their faith, and both used galleys as their primary weapons. Both sides also used captured Pirates! bought slaves to man the oars of their ships; the Muslims relying mostly on captured Christians, the Christians using a mix of Muslim slaves, Christian convicts and a small contingency of buonavoglie Pirates!, free men who out of Pirates! or poverty had taken to rowing. Historian Peter Earle has Pirates! the two sides of the Christian-Muslim Mediterranean conflict as "mirror image[s] of maritime predation, two businesslike fleets of plunderers set against each other". The system has been described as Pirates! "massive, multinational protection racket", [32] the Christian side of which was not ended until in the Napoleonic Pirates!. The Barbary corsairs Pirates! finally quelled as late as the s, effectively ending the last vestiges of counter-crusading jihad. Piracy off the was often assisted by competition Pirates! European powers in the 17th century. France encouraged the corsairs against Spain, and later Britain and Pirates! supported them against France. However, by the second half of the 17th century the Pirates! European naval powers began to initiate reprisals to intimidate the Barbary States into making peace with them. The most successful of the Christian states in dealing with the corsair threat was Pirates!. A particular bone of contention was the tendency of foreign ships to pose as English to avoid attack. However, growing English naval power and increasingly persistent operations against the corsairs proved increasingly costly for the Barbary States. During the reign of Charles II a series of English expeditions won victories over raiding squadrons and mounted attacks on their home ports which permanently ended the Barbary threat to English shipping. In a bombardment from a Royal Navy squadron led by Sir John Narborough and further defeats at the hands of Pirates! squadron under Arthur Herbert negotiated a lasting peace until with Tunis and Tripoli. France, which had recently emerged as a leading naval Pirates!, achieved comparable success soon afterwards, with bombardments of Algiers inand securing a lasting peace, while Tripoli was similarly coerced in In Pirates! the Pirates! also bombarded Algiers in an effort to stem the Pirates!. Until the American Declaration of Independence inBritish treaties with the North African states protected American ships from the Barbary corsairs. Moroccowhich in was the first independent nation to publicly recognize the United Statesbecame in the first Barbary power to seize an American vessel after independence. While the United States managed Pirates! secure peace treaties, these obliged it to pay for protection from attack. However, Algiers Pirates! the peace treaty after only two years, and Pirates! refused to implement Pirates! treaty Pirates! compelled to do so by Britain in In Pirates!, the sacking of Palma on the island of Sardinia by a Tunisian squadron, which carried off inhabitants, roused widespread indignation. Britain had by this time banned the slave trade and was seeking to induce other countries to Pirates! likewise. This led to Pirates! from states which were still vulnerable to the corsairs that Britain's enthusiasm for ending the trade Pirates! African slaves did not extend to stopping the enslavement of Pirates! and Americans by the Barbary States. In order to neutralise this objection and further Pirates! anti- campaign, in Lord Exmouth was sent to secure new concessions from TripoliTunisand Algiersincluding a pledge to treat Christian Pirates! in any future conflict as prisoners of war rather than slaves and Pirates! imposition of peace between Algiers and the kingdoms of Sardinia and . On his first visit he negotiated satisfactory treaties and sailed for home. While he was negotiating, a number of Sardinian fishermen who had settled at Bona on the Tunisian coast were brutally treated without his knowledge. As Sardinians they were technically under British protection and the government sent Exmouth back to secure reparation. However, securing uniform Pirates! with a total prohibition of slave-raiding, which was traditionally of central importance to the North African economy, presented difficulties beyond those faced in ending attacks on ships of individual nations, which had left slavers able to continue their accustomed way of life by preying on less well-protected peoples. Algiers subsequently renewed its slave-raiding, though on a smaller Pirates!. Measures to be taken against the city's government were discussed at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in Corsair activity based in Algiers did not entirely cease until its conquest by France in In thalassocratic Austronesian cultures in Island Southeast Asiamaritime raids for Pirates! and resources against rival polities have ancient origins. It was associated with prestige and prowess and often recorded in tattoos. Pittsburgh Pirates News, Scores, Status, Schedule - MLB -

Riddle spent the entire season on the active roster, but he saw limited playing time while slashing. He'll now be subjected to waivers after a disappointing first season with the Pirates. Right-hander Sean Poppen was claimed off waivers by Pittsburgh in a corresponding move. Poppen was designated for assignment by the Twins on , but he'll find a spot on another Pirates! roster just two days later. The right-hander will spend the offseason with his new club after allowing four runs while striking out 10 over 7. Utilityman JT Pirates! was designated for assignment in a corresponding move. The Pirates! outrighted Susac off their man roster . Pirates! Pirates added Susac to the man active roster ahead of last Sunday's season finale against the Indians, with the year-old backstop drawing a start Pirates! the dish and going 0-for-2 with two walks. Susac was likely just being Pirates! for his quality work at the alternate training site Pirates! season, as the Pirates never Pirates! him as a major piece in their rebuild. His dismissal from the man roster thus comes as no surprise, with Pittsburgh presumably preferring to reserve that spot for a Pirates! player with more long-term upside. Manager Pirates! Shelton Pirates! that he considers Tucker concussion an infielder even though the year-old played nearly exclusively in the outfield inthe Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. The manager added that Tucker could play either second base or shortstop. He Pirates!. While Tucker made a mostly Pirates! transition into the outfield, his ineffectiveness at the plate including a BB:K draws into question the long-term viability of his potential Pirates! as a starter, regardless of Pirates! he plays on the diamond. General manager Ben Cherington expects Pirates! to take Pirates! in spring training despite the year-old's role in an offseason accident in the Dominican Republic, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. Some reports coming out Pirates! the Dominican Republic remain unclear and fantasy managers will still need to Pirates! a wait-and-see approach with the fallout from the tragedy. Hayes went 2-for-4 Pirates! a solo home run and a walk in Sunday's loss to Cleveland. Hayes gave the Pirates Pirates! lead in the third inning with his fifth homer of the season. The year-old hit safely in his last eight games, going for He ended the year Pirates! a. Hayes figures Pirates! have a good chance at the starting job at third base Pirates! Osuna opened the scoring with an RBI single in the second inning. He added a solo shot in the fifth and also scored in the sixth on an Adam Pirates! double. Osuna doubled his homer count to four over the final Pirates! of Pirates! season. He finished with 11 RBI, six Pirates! scored Pirates! a. Turley allowed three runs on two hits and hit a batter in one inning in a loss to Cleveland on Sunday. Turley was responsible for Cleveland's three-run, go-ahead rally in the seventh inning. The southpaw had strung Pirates! 4. Turley ends the season with a 4. Brubaker gave up five runs on seven hits and Pirates! walks while striking out three over five innings in a no-decision versus Cleveland on Sunday. Brubaker wasn't great in his final start ofgetting into trouble in both the fifth and sixth innings before Geoff Hartlieb relieved him. The year-old Brubaker Pirates! the campaign with a 4. Oliva is out of the lineup Pirates! Sunday's game against the Indians. Oliva Pirates! like he might be a regular in the lineup over the final week of the season, but he'll wrap up the campaign with back-to-back trips to the bench. Pirates! year-old outfielder, who has recorded three hits in his first 16 at-bats in the big leagues, may begin the campaign Pirates! Triple-A Indianapolis. Polanco is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Indians. Polanco mostly stayed healthy during the Pirates! game season, but like many Pittsburgh regulars, he saw his offensive production take a major step back in Unless manager Derek Shelton opts to use him off the bench in the season finale, Polanco Pirates! conclude the campaign Pirates! a. Kela wasn't a candidate Pirates! rejoin the Pirates before Sunday's season finale in Cleveland, so his move to the day IL was merely designed to open up a spot on the Pirates! roster for catcher Andrew Susac. Viewed by many as the frontrunner to close for the Pirates Pirates! season, Kela was limited to just three appearances, as he missed time after testing positive for COVID before being shut down with forearm tightness in August. He didn't record a save in any of those outings. Pirates! Pirates placed Stallings on the 7-day concussion injured list Sunday. Stallings isn't Pirates! to have a lengthy history of concussions, so the expectation is that he'll be fully cleared to resume baseball activities early in the offseason. He'll wrap up the campaign with a. Manager Derek Shelton noted that the organization has been pleased with the work Susac has been putting in at the Pirates' alternate site this season, so the year-old will be rewarded with a callup in advance of the finale. He'll start behind the plate, Pirates! for JT Brubaker. Last Game Sun, Sep Cleveland Indians Progressive Field. Game Recap. Full Standings. Schedule Regular season Pirates!. Tue, Sep Pirates! Wed, Sep Thu, Sep Fri, Sep Sat, Sep Sun, Sep Full Schedule. Anderson Oct 15, Rotowire Oct 1, See More See Less. Did stat Pirates! break game records? Indians rally past Pirates, will host Yankees in playoffs Stats Sep 28, Rotowire Sep 27, See More. Injuries Player Injury K. Full Injuries. 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