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Barbarossa

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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. He extended his conquests to the rest of the Barbary States. Between 1533 and 1544, as admiral of the Turkish fleet under Sulayman I , he twice defeated Andrea Doria and ravaged the coasts of Greece, Spain, and Italy. His able son Hasan (d. 1572) succeeded him in Algeria. Bibliography: See biography by E. D. S. Bradford (1969). Author not available, BARBAROSSA... Read more
Barbarossa
Barbarossa nickname (‘Redbeard’) of Frederick I ( c. 1123–90), king of Germany and Holy Roman emperor. Barbarossa was the code name for the military operation in which Hitler's armies launched their invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Read more
BARBAROSSA
BARBAROSSA, German codename for the invasion of the USSR which...a basis for operations, Directive No. 21, Operation BARBAROSSA, and the Army High Command Deployment Directive were...all Red Army political commissars , and the ‘Barbarossa Jurisdiction Decree’, which exempted German soldiers... Read more

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