Hajraddin Barbarossa

(Turkish: Barbaros Hajraddin Pasha, Pasha Hızır Hajraddin or Hızır Reis, Arab. Khayr al-Din, bor n. Midilli in 1478 in Lesbos, died. July 4, 1546 in Istanbul, Tur key) - Admiral (Kapudan feed rounds. Kaptanıderya) troops Ottoma n Empire, Turkish privateer, the most famous pirate ever raged in the Mediterranean. Born as Yakupoğlu Hızır (Hızır son of Yakup), was the youngest of four brothers engaged in piracy on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt. In 1504, after the death of the oldest of the brothers - Elijah, who died in the fight against the Spaniards, Hızır with his brother Arudżem left Egypt and went to the island of Djerba, where, in agreement with the pirates, Berbers, began military operations against the Spaniards, and attempted to control Maghreb in the north-west coast of Africa.