Barbarossa the Red Beard

[Arpa]

Barbarossa, Red Beard, Շիկամորուս

Did you know that the terrorist corsair, pirate was furkish?
I did not. I always related it to Բարբարոս/ barbaros /barbarian/savage..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayreddin_Barbarossa

He became known as "Barbarossa" ("Redbeard" in Italian) in Europe, a name he inherited from his elder brother Baba Oruç (Father Aruj) after Aruj was killed in a battle with the Spanish in Algeria. This name sounded like "Barbarossa" ("Redbeard") to the Europeans, and Aruj did have a red beard. The nickname then stuck also to Hayreddin's Turkish name, in the form Barbaros.

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How did a furk have red beard?

Khizr was born in the 1470s in the Ottoman island of Midilli (Lesbos), in the village Palaiokipos, to his father Yakup Ağa and to his mother Katerina.[1] Sources refer to Khizr as a Greek,[2][3] as a Turk,[4] or as an[5][6] by origin. His mother was referred as a local Christian Greek woman from Mytilene, the widow of an Orthodox priest.[7] His father Yakup was referred as a Greek renegade from Mytilene[8]

Khizr was born in the 1470s in the Ottoman island of Midilli (Lesbos), in the village Palaiokipos, to his father Yakup Ağa and to his mother Katerina.[1] Sources refer to Khizr as a Greek,[2][3] as a Turk,[4] or as an[5][6] by origin. His mother was referred as a local Christian Greek woman from Mytilene, the widow of an Orthodox priest.[7] His father Yakup was referred as a Greek renegade from Mytilene[8] or Turkish[1][9][10]
I thought Barbaruossa/BarbaRussa meant Russian Beard.
Picture of an Armenian Molokan** Russian
http://ianyanmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/2927006942_5ac0ff8615_z.jpg
http://ianyanmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/2927006942_5ac0ff8615_z.jpg
**Molokan=Milk drinker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molokan
Ivan/Lenin/Putin the Red Bearded Terrible?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Ivan-Groznyi-Parsuna.jpg

[Johannes]

Ոչ ծովային Ժողովուրդները սկզբնապէս օգտւում են ծովի հետ հին բարեկամութիւն ունեցող ազգերից:

Արաբներն ու թուրքերը ունեցել են կրօնափոխ յոյն նաւաստիներ ու նաւապետեր:

Edited December 25, 2013 by Johannes

[Arpa]

The Britannica says he was of Albanian origin

[Johannes]

Here are some Albanian faces.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/300474606359808808/

 

 

http://serbianna.com/blogs/bozinovich/archives/1710

 

 

http://theorthodoxchurch.info/blog/news/2012/02/two-new-bishops-in-the-orthodox-autocephalous-church-of-albania/

 

http://www.haberler.com/berisha-arnavutlar-ile-turkler-arasinda-kan-3524076-haberi/