15th-Century Ottoman People - Hayreddin Barbarossa, Mimar Sinan, Kemal Reis, Elijah Bashyazi, Caleb Afendopolo, Mara Brankovi, Gazi Evrenos (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Hayreddin Barbarossa, Mimar Sinan, Kemal Reis, Elijah Bashyazi, Caleb Afendopolo, Mara Brankovi, Gazi Evrenos, Cem, Ay e Hafsa Sultan, Ay e Hatun, Amina Gul-Bahar, Musa Celebi, Gulbahar Sultan, Mordecai Comtino, Suleyman Celebi, Mustafa Celebi, Yakup A a, Elijah Mizrachi, sa Celebi, Emine Hatun, Devlet Hatun, Kucuk Mustafa, Pasha Yigit-Beg, Isak-Beg, Huma Hatun, Himmeti-Zade Nesuh-Beg. Excerpt: Hayreddin Barbarossa or Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha (Turkish: or H z r Hayreddin (Hayrettin) Pa a; also Khizr Reis before being promoted to the rank of Pasha and becoming the Kapudan-i Derya, born Khizr or Khidr, Turkish: H z r; c. 1478 - 4 July 1546) was an Ottoman admiral who dominated the Mediterranean for decades. He was born on the island of Lesbos/ Mytilini and died in Constantinople (Istanbul), the Ottoman capital. Hayreddin (Arabic: Khair ad-Din, which literally means Goodness or best of the Religion of Islam) was an honorary name given to him by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. He became known as Barbarossa (Redbeard in Italian) in Europe, a name he inherited from his elder brother "Baba Oruc" (Father Aruj) after Aruj was killed in a battle with the Spanish in Algeria. This name sounded like "Barbarossa" (Redbeard) to the Europeans, and Aruj did have a red beard. The nickname stuck then also to Hayreddin's Turkish name, in the form Barbaros. Khizr was born in the 1470s on the island of Midilli (Lesbos) to his father Yakup A a to his mother Katerina. Sources refer to Khizr as a Greek, or as an Albanian by origin. His mother was referred as a local Christian Greek woman from Mytilene, the widow of an Orthodox priest. His father Yakup was referred as a Greek renegade from Mytilene or Turkish as well as a former Sipahi from Yenice-i Vardar (modern Yannitsa) and took part in the Ottoman conquest of Lesbos from ...