Raided Iceland facts
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Ottoman Pirates undertook a series of Slave Raids in Iceland in 1627. They captured an estimated 400–900 Icelandic prisoners to sell into slavery. This event is known in Iceland as Tyrkjaránið – the 'Turkish Raid'
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Iceland has its own name for Istanbul, which goes back to the time of the 11th-century Viking raids on the Black Sea, when they referred to it simply as the “Great City”.
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The Ottoman Navy raided Iceland, Sweden, Ireland and the Faeroe Islands in the early 17th century. They also sailed to Virginia.
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Jan Janszoon aka Murat Reis, a 1570 born Dutch pirate who converted to islam and raided as far as Iceland in the name of Ottoman sultan. He was also the first president of a free city-state in todays Morocco.
