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Barbary Coast (disambiguation)

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The name Barbary Coast can refer to several things:

  • The Barbary Coast, or Barbary, was the term used by Europeans until the 19th century to refer to the coastal regions of what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.

It can also refer to:

  • the former name of a neighborhood in San Francisco, California,
  • Barbary Coast (movie), a 1935 movie directed by Howard Hawks, and
  • Barbary Coast (TV movie) a made-for-TV movie and subsequent television show starring William Shatner.
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