What the records say
- When
- 20 Jun 1627 – 17 Jul 1627
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 63.84° N, 22.44° W
- Description
- 1627 Barbary slave raids against Iceland
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Turkish Abductions
Barbary slave raids against Iceland
The Turkish Abductions were a series of slave raids by pirates from Algiers and Salé that took place in Iceland in the summer of 1627.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Turkish Abductions: Barbary corsairs from Salé raid the fishing village of Grindavík in Iceland and take captives into slavery, the first of several raids”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “İzlanda Seferi: Osmanlı denizci/korsanlarının İzlanda'ya 15 parçalık bir donanma ile akını ve güney kıyısındaki Vestmannaeyjar adasını yağmalayıp yüzlerce…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page