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Khair ad-Din
(redirected from Hayreddin Barbarossa)

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Khair ad-Din: see Barbarossa Barbarossa [Ital.,=red-beard], surname of the Turkish corsair Khayr ad-Din (c.1483–1546). Barbarossa and his brother Aruj, having seized (1518) Algiers from the Spanish, placed Algeria under Turkish suzerainty.
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Thus Sultan Suleyman the Lawgiver (1520-66) used Hayreddin Barbarossa to keep the Spaniards busy in home waters, while Charles V (1517-55) and Philip II of Spain (1556-98) backed campaigns in the eastern Mediterranean by Andrea Doria of Genoa and the Knights of Malta.
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