Talk:Sinan Reis

A fact from Sinan Reis appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 February 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Sinan Reis, a Sephardi Jewish pirate and Barbary corsair whose family was expelled from Spain in 1492, helped Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa defeat the Spanish at the 1538 Battle of Preveza (pictured)?

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Sources

The article is based on unreliable sources, mostly journalistic or pop-historic (Kritzler). Kritzler repeats his source's errors : he cites Tolkowsky's "They took to the sea" which confuses "Sinan the Jew" the corsair and Sinan Pasha the Kapudan Pasha, therefore ascribing to the former undue importance and achievements. The invented information about Sinan the Jew being "buried in a Jewish cemetery in Albania" is the result of some other non specialized (or careless) authors mistaking Scutari=Üsküdar (the actual burial place of Sinan Pasha) for Scutari=Skhodër (Kritzler doesn't make the mistake himself).--Phso2 (talk) 13:55, 19 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]