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with the schooner Dolce Vita I sailing the crossroads of history, sailing, for example, in the wake of
Aruj Reis (Aruj Captain) more famously known as Barbarossa. So come aboard Dolce Vita I for a cruise
through history. Aruj was the eldest of six children born to Greek parents on the Aegean island of
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father a former Ottoman
janissary, the mother an Orthodox priest's widow. Of the four sons two were later known as Barbarossa,
Aruj the first. He matured at a time of Orthodox angst with the Latins of Rome, a time reflecting
Latin occupation of Constantinople 270 years earlier and continuing occupation of
the Greek Aegean. And just as the ancients of Lesbos had identified with the Trojans of Asia Minor
so he identified with the Ottomans of Asia Minor. The Ottomans meanwhile were identifying with the
Moors of Spain who were similarly the victims of Latin oppression, most expelled, some enslaved. On
his 25th birthday in 1498 Aruj found himself chained to a Latin galley bench of the Hospitaller
Knights of Rhodes, a circumstance certainly adding to his discomfort with things Latin. Ransomed by
the Ottoman poet-prince Korkud and soon outfitted with his own galliot (small galley), Aruj for the
next four years could be found exacting vengeance in the Latin Aegean, raiding Latin islands and
waylaying Latin merchant shipping. In 1503 he moved on to Tunisia where he and his brother Khizr
established themselves at the island of Djerba. Over the next fifteen years Aruj and Khizr and an
increasing number of like-minded rogues took the guerra di corse directly to the coasts and
offshore waters of Italy and Spain. Known as Barbarossa for his flaming red hair (with freckles),
after 1512 Aruj was also known as Silver Arm given the substitute for a limb lost to the Spanish
that year at Bougie in Algeria. Real thing or silver thing, Aruj all the while was transporting
Moors from Spain to Africa many of whom enlisted in his ranks and with him took the war to Latin
Europe. By 1513 Aruj and Khizr had eight galliots of their own. That year with allied corsairs they
raided the coast of Spain taking two Spanish galliots and four barkentines (very small galleys)
near Malaga, and with them evacuating yet additional Moors. By 1516 Aruj had founded the kingdom of
Algiers and become its ruler, his brother Khizr his principal lieutenant. There is more to
Barbarossa history, too much more to be recounted here. Why not come aboard Dolce Vita I and learn
what happened next. How Khizr became the more famous Barbarossa. While you holiday. While you
proceed from pine-encircled cove to remote island. While you have an extended-family holiday aboard
a crewed sailing schooner cruising the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. While you have an extended
family gathering perhaps including your own rogues. Perhaps cruising into the Cyclades which Aruj
called his own in the first few years of the sixteenth century. Cruising from Turkey into the central
Aegean. Starting in Bodrum. Are you searching for Bodrum in Turkey? Well, it is eleven nautical
miles NE of Kos Town on the north shore of the Ceramic Gulf. There or elsewhere we can put you
aboard a charter schooner with an experienced crew able to show you tracks left by Aruj Barbarossa,
able to show you tracks left by Khizr and by the other two brothers. Dolce Vita I, a superb crewed
schooner sailing the Turkish coast and Greek Aegean and knowledgeable of local history. Contact
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