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Mytilene

ميتيليني

City on the Greek island of Lesbos.

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Region
Anatolia
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Birthplace of
Cemal Pasha· Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha· Selman Reis· عروج بربروسة
Site of
Siege of Mytilene (1464)

People and things also explored

Aruj Barbarossa enters Algiers (1516)· al-Mustanjid bi'llah Yusuf ibn al-Mutawakkil· Khayr al-Din Barbarossa· Salim al-Tumi· Aden· Baghdad· Erzurum· Istanbul

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islam.museum contributors. “Mytilene”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/mytilene/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Aruj Barbarossa enters Algiers (1516)

After failing at Bougie and being trapped at Jijel between the Hafsids and Salim al-Tumi, Aruj entered Algiers with Ottoman support, killed its ruler on proof of his dealings with Spain, and took Cherchell — in the same 1516 that saw Marj Dabiq.