User blog comment:Jeremiah Garland/Clearing Up Some Roleplay Stuffs/@comment-4034967-20121118223638

Off topic: Sorry I haven't been here for a while, been really busy; that, and itsjust now letting me edit and comment.

On topic: Morocco was allied with the Barbary States, but was always independent. Algeria, Tunisia, and Tripoli were all part of the Barbary States and were under Ottoman protection. Although they were mainly corsairs, they did have a lot of money to play with due to trade with the Turks as well as the natural resour es around them, coffee and iron, which largely funded them. They were an absolute monarchy and ruled by a sultan. The Ottomans owned as far as Egypt, as far as I know and I believe Algeria was either given to the Barbary States or taken back, but I doubt the latter.