Pirates -desperate sea-rovers- have been terrorizing shipmen ever since there can be merchant service at seas. Freeboaters of Ancient Greece were on he lookout for their victims at the Aegean-Sea in the fifth century B.C., let their prisoners out against on payment of ransom, or sold they for bonds. In the Delian port at the Aegean-Sea-which belonged to the Roman Empire (from200B.C. till 476 A.D.)
The active trade drawed pirates, who could sell the captured bonds and any other robbed treasures. In the ninth century, the North-European people were also terrorised by dreadful Vikings, who didn’t know mercy. In the elevens century, during the holy-wars Muslem sea-rovers were called barberian pirates, attacked Venetian and Genoese sailors.
Every European people went in fear of the most famous pirates’ names. British, French and Karibean freebooters raided too, their characters got abroad, and they became legendary people of the harbours’pub. Nowadays some pirates’names are well-known.
