- was Yakub, the
father of the
pirate admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa.
Named Midilli (مدللى)
after its capital, Mytilene, the
island became a
sanjak (province)...
-
October 1914,
prompting a
Russian declaration of war. The
ships were
renamed Midilli and Yavûz Sultân Selîm, respectively, and saw
extensive service with the...
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Turkish fleet.
Goeben was
renamed Yavuz Sultan Selim and
Breslau was
renamed Midilli;
their German crews donned Ottoman uniforms and fezzes. On 29
October Yavuz...
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Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa, he was born on the
Ottoman island of
Midilli (****s in present-day Greece) and died in
battle against the
Spanish at...
- ex-German
battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim and her consort, the
light cruiser Midilli, from
breaking out into the
Mediterranean from the Dardanelles, although...
-
allowed the
Ottoman battlecruiser Yavûz Sultân Selîm and
light cruiser Midilli to
sortie into the
Mediterranean and
attack the
Royal Navy
monitors and...
-
battlecruiser SMS Goeben were sold to the
Ottoman Navy; the
ships were
renamed the
Midilli and the
Yavuz Sultan Selim, respectively. They
began operating out of Constantinople...
-
October 1914, two
former German warships, the
Ottoman Yavûz Sultân Selîm and
Midilli,
conducted the
Black Sea raid, in
which they
bombarded the
Russian port...
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Ottoman facilities in 1915. The ship
engaged the
Ottoman light cruiser Midilli,(formerly the
German SMS Breslau)
several times without inflicting anything...
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Dardanelles and
entered service in the
Ottoman Navy as
Yavuz Sultan Selim and
Midilli, respectively.
These events significantly contributed to the Porte's decision...
