Barbary
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Barbary. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) a general name for the most northerly portion of Africa, extending about 2,600 miles from Egypt to the Atlantic, with a breadth varying BARBED WIRE DEFENSE THAT CAN BE MOVED FROM PLACE TO PLACE from about 140 to 1,550 miles; iles; comprising Morocco, Fez, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli (including Barca and Fezzan). The principal races are the Berbers, the original inhabitants, from whom the country takes its name; the Arabs, who conquered an extensive portion of it during the times of the caliphs; the Bedouins, Jews, Turks, negroes, and the French colonists of Algeria, etc. The country, which was prosperous under the Carthaginians, was, next to Egypt, the richest of the Roman provinces, and the Italian states enriched themselves by their intercourse with it. In the 15th century, however, it became infested with adventurers who made the name of Barbary corsair a terror to commerce, a condition of things finally removed by the French occupation of Algeria. In the early part of the 19th century the United States Government found itself forced as a result of the attitude of some of the Barbary countries to make war against them. 416 BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
in geography and history, a general term applied to the northern coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. The name is derived from the Berbers, an ancient people who were subjugated by the Arabs. See Algiers ; Morocco ; Tripoli