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Aruj or Arouj (, Arabic: عروج بربروس, ; c. 1474 – 1518) was a Barbary Pirate. He was the elder brother of Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha and Ottoman Bey (Governor) of Algiers and Beylerbey (Chief Governor) of the West Mediterranean. He was born on the Ottoman island of Midilli (Lesbos in today's Greece) and was killed in a battle with the Spaniards at Tlemcen in the Ottoman Eyalet of Algeria.

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  • Aruj
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  • Aruj or Arouj (, Arabic: عروج بربروس, ; c. 1474 – 1518) was a Barbary Pirate. He was the elder brother of Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha and Ottoman Bey (Governor) of Algiers and Beylerbey (Chief Governor) of the West Mediterranean. He was born on the Ottoman island of Midilli (Lesbos in today's Greece) and was killed in a battle with the Spaniards at Tlemcen in the Ottoman Eyalet of Algeria.
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serviceyears
  • c.1495 -1518
Birth Date
  • c. 1474
Base of Operations
  • Mediterranean
death place
  • Tlemcen, Ottoman Eyalet of Algeria
Nickname
  • Barbarossa
  • Red Beard
  • Baba Oruç
Name
  • (Oruç)
  • Aruj
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Caption
  • Barbarossa, lithograph by Charles-Etienne Motte, after a drawing by Achille Deveria.
Birth Place
  • Midilli, Ottoman Empire
death date
  • 1518(xsd:integer)
Rank
  • Captain
Allegiance
laterwork
  • Bey of Algiers
abstract
  • Aruj or Arouj (, Arabic: عروج بربروس, ; c. 1474 – 1518) was a Barbary Pirate. He was the elder brother of Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha and Ottoman Bey (Governor) of Algiers and Beylerbey (Chief Governor) of the West Mediterranean. He was born on the Ottoman island of Midilli (Lesbos in today's Greece) and was killed in a battle with the Spaniards at Tlemcen in the Ottoman Eyalet of Algeria. He became known as Baba Aruj or Baba Oruç (Father Aruj) when he transported large numbers of Moriscos refugees from Spain to North Africa; he was known through folk etymology in Europe as Barbarossa (which meant Redbeard in Italian).
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