Salé

The Republic of Salé was a corsair city-state at the mouth of Morocco's Bou Regreg river. Moriscos from Hornachos in Spain settled there around the time of Philip III's expulsion decrees of 1609, and corsairs sailed from the river into the Atlantic and Mediterranean.

In 1627 the Hornacheros expelled the sultan's governor and established a virtually independent republic. After clashes in 1630, they shared its ruling council with other Andalusian Moriscos; Salé was later incorporated into Alaouite Morocco.