Barbarossa
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Barbarossa, a name meaning red beard in Italian, may refer to any of these:
People
- Emperor BarbarossaFrederick I, Holy Roman EmperorFrederick I Barbarossa was a German Holy Roman Emperor. He was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March, crowned King of Italy in Pavia in 1155, and finally crowned Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV, on 18 June 1155, and two years later in 1157 the term...
or Frederick I (1122-1190), Holy Roman Emperor- Barbarossa city, a nickname for five German cities that Emperor Barbarossa stayed in or near for some time
- Oruç Reis (circa 1474-1518), called Barbarossa, an Ottoman-Turkish privateer and Bey of Algiers
- Hayreddin Barbarossa (circa 1478-1546), an Ottoman-Turkish privateer and Admiral-of-the-Fleet
- Theodore Cotillo BarbarossaTheodore Cotillo BarbarossaTheodore Cotillo Barbarossa was an American sculptor active primarily in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Boston.Barbarossa was born in Ludlow, Vermont, and studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and Yale University...
(1906-1992), an American sculptor - Luca BarbarossaLuca BarbarossaLuca Barbarossa is an Italian singer-songwriter who has released 12 albums since 1981, and is known for his participation in the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest.- Early career :...
(born 1961), an Italian singer-songwriter - David BarbarossaDavid BarbarossaDavid Barbarossa is a British drummer.As part of both Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow, Barbarossa was instrumental in creating the "Tribal" drumming trend that was popular among British and some American bands, circa 1979–1983...
(born 1961), a British drummer
Fictional characters
- Barbarossa, a character in the Legends of Dune novels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
- Barbarossa Rugner, a character in the 1995 Suikoden PlayStation role-playing game
Music
- Barbarossa (album)Barbarossa (album)Barbarossa is a 1996 industrial album by the UK band Cubanate. The track "Joy" from the album has been released as a single.-Track listing:# "Vortech I" – 2:57# "Barbarossa" – 6:13# "Joy" – 3:32# "Why Are You Here?" – 4:32# "Exultation" – 4:24...
, a 1996 album by Cubanate - Barbarossa, a 2001 album by OrplidOrplidOrplid is the creative neofolk, martial, post-industrial and experimental music works of German musicians Uwe Nolte and Frank Machau. The name is drawn from the poem Gesang Weylas by Eduard Mörike, beginning ‘Du bist Orplid, mein Land’ . Orplid in the poem is a faraway fantasy land...
- Barbarossa, a 1994 song by Sordid HumorSordid HumorSordid Humor was a musical band formed in 1987 by the duo of Tom Barnes and Jim Gordon. Barnes' unique vocal style and unusual phrasing was the trademark of Sordid Humor, and he went on to lend his vocals and alt-rock guitar style to Engine 88, and a solo project called the Blimp...
- Barbarossa, a 1999 song by Sex Gang ChildrenSex Gang ChildrenThe Sex Gang Children are a positive punk group that formed in the early 1980s in England. Although the original group only released one official studio album, they remain one of the more well-known bands out of the early Batcave scene and have reformed for new albums and touring various times...
Ships
- Barbarossa class ocean linerBarbarossa class ocean linerThe Barbarossa class was a class of ocean liners of North German Lloyd and the Hamburg America Line of the German Empire. Of the ten ships built between 1896 and 1902, six were built by AG Vulcan Stettin, three were built by Blohm & Voss, and one was built by F. Schichau; all were built in Germany...
, a class of ten German ocean liners built between 1896 and 1902 - SMS Kaiser BarbarossaSMS Kaiser BarbarossaSMS Kaiser Barbarossa was a German pre-dreadnought battleship of the . The ship was built for the Imperial Navy, which had begun a program of expansion at the direction of Kaiser Wilhelm II. She was constructed at Schichau, in Danzig...
, a German pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1900 - Hayreddin Barbarossa, an Ottoman battleship of the First World War.
Other
- The German Kyffhäuser MonumentKyffhäuser MonumentThe Kyffhäuser Monument , also known as the Barbarossa Monument or the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument , is a monument on the summit of the Kyffhäuser Mountain near Bad Frankenhausen in the state of Thuringia in central Germany.The monument, which totals 81 metres tall, was built in...
(also known as the Barbarossa Monument) constructed between 1890 and 1896 - 1860 Barbarossa1860 Barbarossa1860 Barbarossa is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1973 by Wild, P. at Zimmerwald.- External links :*...
(1973 SK), a main-belt asteroid - The Man from BarbarossaThe Man from BarbarossaThe Man from Barbarossa, first published in 1991, was the eleventh novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.More so than...
, a 1991 novel by John Gardner - Barbarossa (film), a 2009 Italian film starring Rutger Hauer
- Barbarossa (board game)Barbarossa (board game)Barbarossa is a plasticine-shaping German-style board game for 3 to 6 players, designed by Klaus Teuber in and published in 1988 by Kosmos in German and by Rio Grande Games in English. Barbarossa won the 1988 Spiel des Jahres award.- Gameplay :...
, a 1988 board game by Klaus Teuber - Barbarossa (video game), a 1992 Super Nintendo video game
- Operation Barbarossa - The Struggle for Russia (PC game), a 2009 PC game
- Barbarossa (Episode)
Military operation
- Operation BarbarossaOperation BarbarossaOperation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a front., the largest invasion in the history of warfare...
, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, commencing 22 June 1941
See also
- BarbarosaBarbarosaBarbarosa is a 1982 motion picture starring Willie Nelson and Gary Busey, about a young cowboy on the run from the law who hooks up with a famous bandito and learns about life from him...
, a 1982 American film starring Willie Nelson and Gary Busey - Hector BarbossaHector BarbossaHector Barbossa is a fictional character and pirate in the Disney film series Pirates of the Caribbean. Barbossa was first introduced in the series as the main antagonist of the first film, and pirate captain of the Black Pearl after committing mutiny against the ship's former captain, Jack...
, a character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series - BarbarouxBarbarouxBarbaroux is the French wine grape variety, known as Barbarossa in Italy. It is used in the Cassis AOC in France, and in Provence and Corsica, and in Bertinoro in Emilia-Romagna....
, an Italian red wine - Redbeard (disambiguation)