| Desperate to find some explanation for the sudden resurgence of Muslim sea power in the Mediterranean after centuries of Christian dominance, Christian commentators in the sixth century and later pointed to the supposed Christian roots of the greatest Barbary corsair commanders | Khizr operated in the and based his operations mostly in Thessaloniki |
|---|---|
| Unable to persuade Barbarossa to switch sides, in October 1541, Charles himself laid siege to Algiers, seeking to end the corsair threat to the Spanish domains and Christian shipping in the western Mediterranean | Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece |
Due to strong winds, the Ottomans were unable to attack but managed to land at nearby.
10| He then captured and occupied and the | receiving Barbarossa in Istanbul In the spring of 1544, after assaulting San Remo for the second time and landing at and , Barbarossa defeated another Spanish-Italian fleet and raided deeply into the Kingdom of Naples |
|---|---|
| Also in July 1534, he appeared in and sacked the islands of Capri and before bombarding the ports in the Gulf of | In December 1530, he captured the Castle of , in the Balearic Islands, and began to use the island as a logistic base for his operations in the area |
After capturing a total of 23 ships in less than a month, the brothers sailed back to La Goulette, where they built three more galliots and a gunpowder production facility.
1| They are also fictionalised as Akdeniz Bizimdi The Mediterranean was Ours by M | Barbarossa is also one of the main characters in 's book 1949 |
|---|---|
| According to the of 1375 by , the flag of the , another Anatolian beylik, consisted of a blue six-edged star | The brothers initially worked as sailors, but then turned in the Mediterranean to counteract the privateering of the Knights of St John who were based on the island of |
The port of and before 10 January 2009, in is named after him.
4