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Piyale Pasha

c. 1515–1578 · 16th century

Piyale Pasha was an Ottoman admiral (Kapudan Pasha) under Suleiman the Magnificent and Selim II, of Croatian or Hungarian origin. He defeated a Spanish-led fleet at Djerba in 1560, commanded the fleet at the unsuccessful siege of Malta in 1565, and took Chios from the Genoese without a fight in 1566. He married a daughter of Selim II.

Piyale Pasha
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Maona of Chios

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