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gray links immediately above. Thank You. What search words have you just used? Zeus! Or Blue
Cruise Turkey? Maybe Blue Cruise Greece? Well, you have found all three. Not Zeus the senior among equals.
Not Zeus when compared to his brothers Poseidon and Hades, but the new schooner Zeus on Blue Cruise in
Turkey and Greece. The new schooner Zeus cruising between Turkey's clear blue water coves sheltered by
Calabrian pine. The new schooner Zeus cruising the azure sea between remote Aegean islands of Greece.
The new schooner Zeus cruising the crossroads of history from modern Bodrum, ancient Hallicarnassus. The
new schooner Zeus cruising the wakes of a host of corsairs who cruised these waters in bygone years.
Take a look. See if you like the looks of this new schooner. Which country is it? Greece or Turkey?
Could you be considering a Blue Cruise along the coast of Turkey? Contemplating a swim in crystal-clear
seawater at the foot of pined slopes? Or are you dreaming of a Blue Cruise between remote Greek islands
in hot pursuit of the perfect tzatziki? Could you even be hoping to charter a new yacht to do both
Greece and Turkey at once? How about doing both aboard a crewed charter yacht with lots of teak deck and
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accommodations for six couples. A new
schooner-rigged sailing yacht on which to cruise the Aegean and eastern
Mediterranean coasts of Turkey. Or on which to sail among neighboring Dodecanese and Sporades islands of
Greece. Or both. While you holiday. While you have a family-and-friends holiday combining sun, fun, and
history. Perhaps cruising the tracks of galleys flying the colors of the Hospitaller Knights of Rhodes
(nee the Hospitaller Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem). Or perhaps cruising the tracks of Knight
prey such as Ilyas Barbarossa. While you have a group holiday aboard a schooner-rigged yacht proceeding
leisurely from one intriguing locale to another along the crossroads of history. While you charter a
sailing yacht to cruise further into the Aegean. To the Greek Cyclades as did the Knights and as did Ilyas.
You may know something of the Knights. Never much more than five hundred in number, each and every one was
of noble blood, and each and every one was sworn to celibacy and abstinence. Warriors all, they also each
and every one served in the Order's hospital, the hospital at Rhodes world famous. On the other hand, you
likely know little of Ilyas Barbarossa, but the name Barbarossa has captured your attention. Called Elias
by the woman of his family, Ilyas was one of six children born in the latter half of the fifteenth century
to a Greek mother living on the island of Lesbos in the Sporades, she the widow of a Greek Orthodox priest.
The father was a former Ottoman janissary probably Illyrian (Albanian) in origin. Ilyas came into this
world in 1475 about twelve months after his more famous brother Aruj, and his name was not
really Barbarossa at all. He was known simply as Ilyas the son of Yakub the Lesbos potter. Barbarossa was
a name accorded the older Aruj because of his flaming red beard, and later also accorded the youngest
brother Khizr in deference to both the then-deceased Aruj and to Khizr's auburn hair. The middle brothers
while fair of skin and hair were simply known as the Lesbos potter's sons. All of the brothers became
seamen fishing the waters off Lesbos and serving on their father's trading vessel, a large caique. Like
many traders in the fifteenth century, Yakub and his sons traded both licitly and illicitly, illicit
victims in those years Genovese and Venetian Latins occupying the adjacent islands of Chios and Lemnos.
Later the family traded into the Cyclades where many of the islands were also Latin by virtue of the Fourth
Crusade's sacking of Constantinople and overthrow of the Orthodox Byzantine Empire. This treacherous 1204
act gave birth to animosity which ever since has, for example,
set Serbs at Croat throats and vice versa. Ilyas, an Orthodox Christian by roots if not upbringing, came
early to the animosity. And so too did his brothers. Following almost a decade of licit/illicit trading
activity Aruj became a ghazi sea captain in the employ of Prince Korkud, son of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II
and Governor or about to become governor of Antalya Province, obtaining command of a small open galliot,
undecked, seventeen oars to a side. Ilyas and Khizr became his lieutenants. At that point it might be said
the brothers became licit in all of their activities as ghazi sea captains were corsairs, not pirates, with
government letters of marque. On a date not recorded by history at the turn of the century Aruj's open
galliot ran afoul of a Knights galley similar to that depicted at left. It happened off the large island of
Crete where the brothers were engaged in their licit activity of supporting the governor's treasury.
To the Knights there was nothing licit about anything Muslim. Their large red-hulled black-prowed galley
Our Lady Of The Conception overhauled Aruj's galliot after a long chase. As Aruj prepared to give in
against hopeless odds, a salvo from the galley's bow chasers proved fatal to Ilyas. Aruj became a galley
slave until ransomed in 1503-04 by Prince Korkud. Khizr was held for ransom in Bodrum's St Peters Castle
until escape. And thus ended the preface to a half century during which Barbarossa Latin-angst
made the Ottoman Empire into a Mediterranean sea power. As they say, the rest is
history. Why not charter a crewed yacht to cruise some of the ports and anchorages free-booted by Ilyas,
second son of Yakub the Potter of Lesbos. Starting in Mytilene, the principal port city of Lesbos. Or Bodrum
under St. Peter's bastions. There or elsewhere we can put you aboard a crewed sailing yacht for the Blue
Cruise of a lifetime. We can put you aboard a charter yacht with an experienced crew able to show you azure
sailing waters off the western coast of Turkey and between neighboring Sporades Islands of Greece, able to
show you Barbarossa paths through the Aegean to Candia (Crete). Candia, then ruled by Latin Venetians.
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