- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
- of the
modern city
center and west of the old harbor. ****s (Turkish:
Midilli) was
under Ottoman rule
between 1462-1912 and had a
considerable Muslim...
-
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...
- 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...
-
cruisers from Germany, the
Yavuz Sultan Selim (formerly SMS Goeben) and the
Midilli (formerly SMS Breslau)
launching a
naval raid on the
Russian port of Odesa...
- 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...
