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Hayreddin Barbarossa

1478 - 1546

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Hayreddin Barbarossa (Arabic: خير الدين بربروس, romanized: Khayr al-Dīn Barbarūs, original name: Khiḍr; Turkish: Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa), also known as Hayreddin Pasha, Hızır Hayrettin Pasha, and simply Hızır Reis (c. 1466/1483 – 4 July 1546), was an Ottoman corsair and later admiral of the Ottoman Navy. Barbarossa's naval victories secured Ottoman dominance over the Mediterranean during the mid-16th century. Born on Lesbos, Khizr began his naval career as a corsair under his elder brother Oruç Reis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hayreddin Barbarossa is the most popular pirate, the 33rd most popular biography from Greece (down from 28th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Pirate.

Hayreddin Barbarossa was a Turkish admiral and privateer who led the Ottoman Empire to success in the Battle of Preveza.

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Among PIRATES

Among pirates, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 1 out of 29. After him are Henry Morgan, Eric of Pomerania, Blackbeard, Ching Shih, Calico Jack, Grace O'Malley, Anne Bonny, D. B. Cooper, Mary Read, Bartholomew Roberts, and William Kidd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1478, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 3. Before him are Pope Clement VII, and Francisco Pizarro. After him are Thomas More, Philip I of Castile, Giorgione, Baldassare Castiglione, Jan Gossaert, John, Prince of Asturias, Pánfilo de Narváez, Sancha of Aragon, and Barbara Jagiellon. Among people deceased in 1546, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 2. Before him is Martin Luther. After him are Francisco de Orellana, Giulio Romano, Meera, Francisco de Vitoria, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Marinus van Reymerswaele, Étienne Dolet, Petru Rareș, and Isabella di Morra.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 33 out of 1,024. Before him are Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921), Draco (-650), Spartacus (-109), Xenophon (-430), Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769), and Demosthenes (-384). After him are Nurbanu Sultan (1525), Gorgias (-483), Themistocles (-524), Ptolemy I Soter (-367), Cleisthenes (-565), and Lycurgus of Sparta (-800).

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Among PIRATES In Greece

Among pirates born in Greece, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 1. 

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