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USA was a tributary state

After the Barbary Wars, the USA paid tribute to the Turks. 96.55.183.132 (talk) 07:08, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

United States

Hi @Georgepodros: you recently re-added the United States and added a source to it as well.[1] Could you provide the quote here on the talk page? Thanks - LouisAragon (talk) 21:51, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you really want to go that far then fair enough. Just a quick google books search will provide all the details you need. Here is the total they paid out over a decade. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kG6ICwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+Wars+of+the+Barbary+Pirates&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwieu7Pxs9DcAhUHJsAKHa3HDZ8Q6AEIKDAA#v=snippet&q=%241.25&f=false

The USA does not belong on this list

The United States paid a fee to the Ottomans for the rights to free and fair trade along the Barbary coast, something the Ottomans did not uphold, thus causing the US to go to war and win, thus not having to pay anymore. This does not fall under a "tributary state", nor a "vassal state" as the sovereignty of the US was not in question here. If this counts as a tributary state, then the US is also a "tributary state" to Cuba, since the US pay the Cuban government a yearly fee for Guantanamo Bay. (Central Data Bank (talk) 10:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC))[reply]