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Prof. Dr. Nikolas Jaspert, Centre for Mediterranean Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum,
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Pirates shaped the history of the Med for 3000 years
Danger from the high seas
“Piracy” – what kind of images does this word conjure up? Eye patch, peg leg and hook arm? You might perhaps think of silver-screen buccaneer Jack Sparrow, who pillaged and swashbuckled his way through the film “Pirates of the Caribbean”. What hardly anybody knows: pirates had been a very real threat in the Mediterranean, too. Between 1000 BC and the 19th century – i.e. for a period of nearly 3000 years – had they shaped its history. Multidisciplinary scientist teams research this subject at the RUB’s Centre for Mediterranean Studies.
