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Barbarossa
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Barbarossa

Nickname ‘red beard’ given to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, and also to two brothers, Horuk and Khair-ed-Din, who were Barbary pirates. Horuk was killed by the Spaniards in 1518; Khair-ed-Din took Tunis in 1534 and died in Constantinople in 1546.

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