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a Frisian rebel leader and pirate. He is best known by his West Frisian nickname Grutte Pier ("Big Pier"; in the pre-1980 West Frisian spelling written as Greate Pier), or by the Dutch translation Grote Pier which referred to his legendary size and strength. His life is mostly shrouded in legend.
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Pier Gerlofs Donia14801515
 
15191520
Gaddaliunknown1516
 
 
1516unknown
 Corsair......Barbary corsair, raided off Sicily, Sardinia and Italian coast, may have worked with...
Aruj Barbarossa1473/741495
 
15181518
 Ottoman Bey (governor) of Algiers and Beylerbey (chief governor) of the West Mediterranean and th...
Pedro Botadillaunknown1518
 
 
1518unknown
 Captured in 1619
Ochali unknown1510
 
1519unknown
 Barbary renegade. In 1511 he sailed from Algiers with a fleet of twenty-two vessels and 1,700 ...
Giovanni da Verrazzano14851508
 
15281528
 an Italian explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France. He is renowned ...
Sayyida al Hurra14851510
 
1542unknown
 Allied with the Turkish corsair Barbaros of Algiers. al Hurra controlled the western Mediterranea...
Hayreddin Barbarossa14781504
 
15451546
 an Ottoman admiral of the fleet who was born in the island of Midilli (Lesbos) and died in Consta...
Turgut Reis14851500
 
15651565, Jun 23
 an Ottoman Greek Admiral and privateer who also served as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Medite...
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