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Yakup Ağa

15th-century Ottoman military personnel

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Updated 2026-08-22

Yakup Ağa or Ebu Yusuf Nurullah Yakub, was the father of the Barbarossa Brothers, Oruç and Hızır. He was a Sipahi of Turkish or Albanian descent from Yenice. Yakup was among those who took part in the capture of the Aegean island of Lesbos from the Genoese on behalf of the Ottomans in 1462. For his participation he was granted the fief of Bonova village of the island as a reward and the title of the village's Agha (master).

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