Hayreddin Barbarossa (Arabic: خير الدين بربروس, Khayr al-Din Barbarus, 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.
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1476 Mytilene, Lesbos, Ottoman Empire
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4 July 1546 (aged 70) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
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