Turgut rice (* ; "† 1565) were well-known and feared a Turkish Freibeuter and admiral, also as Dragut.

It on the peninsula of Bodrum into a poor family born, today stands there the small town Turgutreis designated after it.

From 1538 on, when he took up his service in a Freibeuterflotte, it was involved in prominent place at the fights between the Islamic-Turkish and Christian powers, its successes and defeats, its raids and FE storages extended over far parts of the Mediterranean, from Dalmatien to Tripoli, by Turkish waters in the eastern Mediterranean up to the road of Gibraltar, beyond the columns of the Herakles to close to the Kanari islands.

Its lifelong opponent was not thereby the genuesische admiral Andrea Doria, the large rulers and pulse generators of its time in the services of the Spanish fleets was smaller than Sultan the magnificent one (Kanuni Sultan Karl V. and Philipp II. of Spain.

Important stages of its moved life:

• four years in genuesischer shank
• Service under Barbarossa Hayreddin pasha, later its successor in the fame
• Naval victory with Prevesa
• Conquest of Korsika
• 1558 sea-battle with Djerba, one of its largest victories.
• Conquest of of Malta smaller island Gozo
• Death by a cannon ball with the income of the Maltese Forts St.Elmo

Two events seem particularly interesting:

In the year 1550 ""Turgut rice of Djerba from two of Tunisian cities, El-Mehedija and Monastir okkupierte. The cities were however at the time "anarchist ", i.e. they had loose-said themselves of the ruler of the country. Turgut rice divided control of the two cities with the local leaders. A parallel between rebellion and Freibeutertum, about as with the Likedeelern under Klaus could be visible.

When Turgut rice was enclosed in Djerba of Spanish troops, he let ships over country transport its to the other end of the island and escaped in such a way. Completely similarly it had done to Sultan Mehmet, the conquerer of Konstantinopel, there for attack purposes, at the golden horn.

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