Ali Pasha of Tepelena (of Yanya)

علي باشا التبدلني

c. 1822 CE · 1237 AH

Ali Pasha of Tepelena, master of Yanya (Ioannina), son of the Tepelena notable Veli Bey; on Kurt Pasha's recommendation made mutasarrıf of Yanya with mirmiran rank, then governor of Yanya, Yenişehir, Manastır and Selanik, acquiring over two hundred estates and defeating the French — rewarded with the vizierate in 1225/1810, then Rumeli governor and serasker in 1226/1811; past eighty when he died in 1237/1821–22, buried at Silivrikapı 1.

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Roles
Ruler · military-leader
Era
The Colonial Era
Region
Anatolia
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172517501775180018251850187519001925 c. c.
The Colonial Era · The Gunpowder Empires · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghaffar al-Akhras · Abd al-Ghani al-Maydani · Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri · Abd al-Qadir dan Tafa · Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti

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Ali Pasha of Tepelena, the master of Yanya (Ioannina), son of the Tepelena notable Veli Bey 1.

On Kurt Pasha's recommendation he was made mutasarrıf of Yanya with mirmiran rank at his father's death, then governor of Yanya, Yenişehir, Manastır and Selanik, amassing over two hundred estates and defeating the French; rewarded with the vizierate in Jumada I 1225/June 1810 and made Rumeli governor and serasker in Dhu'l-Hijja 1226. He died in 1237/1821–22 and was buried at Silivrikapı with his children, aged past eighty 1.

Sources

  1. Sicill-i Osmani — Mehmed Süreyya (ed. Nuri Akbayar, transcr. Seyit Ali Kahraman) , vol. 1, 'Ali Paşa Tepedelen'
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