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    Lesbos (redirect from Midilli)
    was Yakub, the father of the pirate admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa. Named Midilli (مدللى) after its capital, Mytilene, the island became a sanjak (province)...
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    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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    of the modern city center and west of the old harbor. Lesbos (Turkish: Midilli) was under Ottoman rule between 1462-1912 and had a considerable Muslim...
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    Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa, he was born on the Ottoman island of Midilli (Lesbos in present-day Greece) and died in battle against the Spanish at...
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    M28 was also sunk in the same battle. Midilli and Yavuz Sultan Selim ran into a minefield while withdrawing; Midilli sank and Yavuz Sultan Selim was badly...
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    allowed the Ottoman battlecruiser Yavûz Sultân Selîm and light cruiser Midilli to sortie into the Mediterranean and attack the Royal Navy monitors and...
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    ex-German battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim and her consort, the light cruiser Midilli, from breaking out into the Mediterranean from the Dardanelles, although...
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    Ağriboz (Euboea), Karli-eli (Aetolia-Acarnania), Mezistre (Mystras), and Midilli (Lesbos) from the Eyalet of Rumelia, thus forming the Eyalet of the Archipelago...
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    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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    The Mytilini Strait (Greek: Στενό της Μυτιλήνης; Turkish: Midilli Boğazı) is a strait in the Aegean Sea that separates the Greek island of Lesbos from...
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    Çirmen Vize Izvornik Florina Elbasan Sanjakbey of the Çingene ("Gypsies") Midilli Karadağ (Montenegro) Sanjakbey of the Müselleman-i Kirk Kilise ("Muslims...
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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...
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    Vilayet: sanjak of Scutari. Vilayet of the Archipelago: sanjaks of Rhodes, Midilli, Sakız, Kos, Cyprus. Vilayet of Crete: sanjaks of Chania, Rethymno, Candia...
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    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...
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  • in service 1912–1918 transferred 1914 to the Ottoman Navy and renamed Midilli This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If...
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  • of the Ottoman Empire; it is now part of Greece. Pandazes was born in Midilli (Lesbos) in the Ottoman Empire, which is now part of Greece. Lewis was...
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    eventually handed over to the Ottoman Empire. Renamed Yavuz Sultan Selim and Midilli, the former Goeben and Breslau were ordered by their German commander to...
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    Succeeded by Hüseyin Rauf Pasha Personal details Born (1872-05-06)6 May 1872 Midilli, Vilayet of the Archipelago, Ottoman Empire Died 21 July 1922(1922-07-21)...
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    13:00 the Ottoman battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim and the light cruiser Midilli sortied from the Bosporus for Sebastopol at high speed. Eberhardt was aware...
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    1915 along with Midilli; on 9 January the two ships accidentally encountered the Russian fleet off Yalta. In the brief engagement, Midilli hit the Russian...
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  • development in music. He was from the Ottoman Empire. Ali Efendi was born in Midilli (now Mytilene) in 1836. His education, both in Mytilene and, after 1854...
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    next month. The battleship may have briefly engaged the light cruiser Midilli on 4 April, firing at the smaller ship for about 15 minutes with little...
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    In 1962, Carletti met Franco Midilli, guitarist of the group Novellara, who joined them in Monelli. In 1963, Franco Midilli introduced Augusto Daolio to...
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  • Mecidiye (Salonika, 1911) Hamidiye (1913) Regia Marina Italiana RN Libia Midilli (Constantinople, 1914). Antalya as RHN Nikopolis Sultânhisar Four 1100...
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    guns. She was soon thereafter joined by Midilli, which had been busy laying mines in the Kerch Strait. Midilli fired a total of 308 shells, sinking several...
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    Ottoman battlecruiser Yavûz Sultân Selîm, together with the light cruiser Midilli (formerly the German Goeben and Breslau, and still with German crews),...
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    Ottoman Navy. These two ships entered service as Yavûz Sultân Selîm and Midilli respectively. The British seizure of these ships as well as the transfer...
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  • Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa, he was born on the Ottoman island of Midilli (Lesbos in present-day Greece) and died in battle against the Spanish at...
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