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Hayreddin Barbarossa
Hayreddin Barbarossa was a sixteenth-century corsair who became grand admiral of the Ottoman fleet. He secured Algiers for the Ottomans and won a major victory over a Christian fleet at Preveza in 1538. He helped make the Ottoman Empire the dominant naval power in the Mediterranean.
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