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Ali Pasha (governor)
Ali Pasha was the name of numerous Ottoman pashas named Ali. It is most commonly used to refer to Ali Pasha of Ioannina. People * Çandarlı Ali Pasha (died 1406), Ottoman grand vizier (1387–1406) * Hadım Ali Pasha (died 1511), Ottoman grand vizier (1501–03, 1506–11) * Sofu Hadım Ali Pasha (fl. 1537–1560), Ottoman governor of Diyarbekir, Bosnia and Egypt * Semiz Ali Pasha (died 1565), Ottoman grand vizier (1561–1565) * Müezzinzade Ali Pasha (died 1571), Ottoman governor of Egypt (1563–66) and commander in the Battle of Lepanto * Uluç Ali Paşa (1519–1587), Ottoman Kapudan Pasha (admiral of the navy) * Yavuz Ali Pasha (died 1604), Ottoman grand vizier (1603–04) and governor of Egypt (1601–03) * Güzelce Ali Pasha (d. 1621), Ottoman grand vizier (1616–21) * Sürmeli Ali Pasha (1645–1695), Ottoman grand vizier (1694–95) * Çalık Ali Pasha (died 1698), Ottoman grand vizier (1692–93) * Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha (1689—1758) served as Grand Vizier of the Otto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasha
Pasha, Pacha or Paşa ( ota, پاشا; tr, paşa; sq, Pashë; ar, باشا), in older works sometimes anglicized as bashaw, was a higher rank in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman political and military system, typically granted to governors, generals, dignitary, dignitaries, and others. As an honorific, honorary title, ''Pasha'', in one of its various ranks, is similar to a British Peerage of the United Kingdom, peerage or knighthood, and was also one of the highest titles in the 20th-century Kingdom of Egypt. The title was also used in Morocco in the 20th century, where it denoted a regional official or governor of a district. Etymology The English word "pasha" comes from Turkish language, Turkish ('; also ()). The Oxford Dictionaries (website), Oxford Dictionaries attributes the origin of the English borrowing to the mid-17th century. The etymology of the Turkish word itself has been a matter of debate. Contrary to titles like emir (''amīr'') and bey (''beg''), which were es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu L-Hasan Ali I
Abu l-Hasan Ali I ( ar, أبو الحسن علي باش; 30 June 1688 – 22 September 1756), also known as Ali Pasha and Ali Bey I,) was the second leader of the Husainid Dynasty and the ruler of Tunisia from 1735 to 1756. Biography He was a grandson of Ali Turki, governor of Kef, and the nephew of Husayn I Bey. After the latter came to power in 1705, he was appointed governor of Sousse and then named heir apparent (1706). In 1724 he obtained the title of pasha from the Ottoman sultan. Two years later, Husayn replaced him as heir with his son Muhammad; Ali therefore revolted, and, with the help of the dey of Algiers, defeated Husayn in 1735. Soon after his entrance in Tunis, however, he was forced to pay a large indemnity to the Algerian troops camped under the city's walls, amounting to the load of 35 mules in silver, and to promise a yearly tribute of 50,000 rials to the dey. Husayn fled to Kairouan and tried to continue governing in Sousse and the Tunisian Sahel. Ali ord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Rıza Pasha (governor Of Baghdad)
Ali Rıza Pasha (sometimes spelled Ali Ridha Pasha) led the Ottoman army in 1831 against the ''mamluk'' governor in Baghdad after Dawud Pasha refused to give up his office. Ali Rıza Pasha captured the city and Dawud ending the ''mamluk'' rule in Baghdad. Baghdad fell in September 1831 after a ten-week-long blockade of the city which caused mass famine. While Ali Rıza Pasha was able to capture Baghdad and unseat Dawud Pasha, he still had to deal with the ''mamluks'' who remained in Baghdad. In order to preserve his power and pacify the ''mamluks'', he gave many of them positions in his government. In the days following his conquest of Baghdad, Ali Rıza Pasha published a ''firman'', or decree, which made him the governing authority over the cities of: Baghdad, Aleppo, Diyarbakr, and Mosul. The ''firman'' eventually covered all cities in Iraq. Ali Rıza Pasha then marched his army south to Basra where he occupied the province ending ''mamluk'' rule in 1834. Ali Rıza Pasha's co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Ali Of Egypt
Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha, also known as Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the Sudan ( sq, Mehmet Ali Pasha, ar, محمد علي باشا, ; ota, محمد علی پاشا المسعود بن آغا; ; 4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849), was the Albanian Ottoman governor and de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule, he controlled all of Egypt, Sudan, Hejaz and the Levant. He was a military commander in an Albanian Ottoman force sent to recover Egypt from a French occupation under Napoleon. Following Napoleon's withdrawal, Muhammad Ali rose to power through a series of political maneuvers, and in 1805 he was named '' Wāli'' (viceroy) of Egypt and gained the rank of Pasha. As '' Wāli'', Muhammad Ali attempted to modernize Egypt by instituting dramatic reforms in the military, economic and cultural spheres. He also initiated a violent purge of the Mamluks, consolidating his rule and permanently ending the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Pasha Castle
Ali Pasha Castle ( sq, Kalaja e Ali Pashës) is a castle in Albania. It is named after Ali Pasha of Tepelenë who resided there until 1820. The current fortress was rebuilt in 1819 from its surface with 3 towers. Until 1820 it was the second residence of Ali Pashe Tepelena. History Built under Venetian dominion in the late 15th or early 16th century, it provided a stronghold for the Venetians on Corfu to exploit fishing, grazing, olives and timber in and around Butrint. The castle was the centrepiece of numerous conflicts with the burgeoning Ottoman Empire, and changed hands on several occasions. It was destroyed by a retreating French army in 1798 to prevent it falling into the hands of Ali Pasha. The fortification attributed to Ali Pasha at Butrint lies some due west at the mouth of the Vivari Channel. This in itself began life in the late 17th or early 18th century as a fortified estate centre belonging to a Corfiote family that farmed land on the plains south of the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Pasha Mosque (Tokat)
Ali Pasha Mosque ( tr, 1=Ali Paşa Camii) is a mosque in the centre of the town of Tokat in the Anatolia region of Turkey. It is a work of the Ottoman period, built in 1572 during the reign of Sultan Selim II Selim II ( Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثانى ''Selīm-i sānī'', tr, II. Selim; 28 May 1524 – 15 December 1574), also known as Selim the Blond ( tr, Sarı Selim) or Selim the Drunk ( tr, Sarhoş Selim), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ..., and has a single dome and a minaret. It is part of complex which also includes a Turkish bath and a mausoleum. The tomb of Ali Pasha and his son Mustafa Bey is in the courtyard. References Tokat Mosques in Turkey 16th-century mosques {{Turkey-mosque-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Pasha Mosque (Sarajevo)
Ali Pasha Mosque ( tr, Ali Paşa Camii) was constructed in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1560–61 as a ''vakıf''—the legacy or perpetual endowment—of Sofu Hadım Ali Pasha, an Ottoman statesman who served as the governor of the Bosnia Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire amongst other roles, after his death in September 1560. Description The mosque was built according to the classical Ottoman architectural style. A dome covers the prayer area and three smaller domes cover the cloister. Its proportions make it the largest sub-dome mosque in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The grounds of the complex contain a mausoleum () with two sarcophagi—those of Avdo Sumbul and Behdžet Mutevelić, Gajret activists who died in the dungeons of Arad. The Ali Pasha Mosque was heavily damaged by Serbian forces during the Bosnian War of the early 1990s, especially the dome. The most recent renovation of the mosque occurred in 2004 and in January 2005, the Commission to Preserve National Monume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Pasha (Mamluk Ruler Of Baghdad)
The Mamluk dynasty of Mesopotamia ( ar, مماليك العراق, Mamālīk al-ʻIrāq) was a dynasty of Georgian Mamluk origin which ruled over Iraq in the 18th and early 19th centuries. In the Ottoman Empire, Mamluks were freed slaves who converted to Islam, were trained in a special school, and then assigned to military and administrative duties. Such Mamluks presided over Ottoman Iraq from 1704 to 1831. The Mamluk ruling elite, composed principally of Georgian and Circassian origin from Caucasian officers, succeeded in asserting autonomy from their Ottoman overlords, and restored order and some degree of economic prosperity in the region. The Ottomans overthrew the Mamluk regime in 1831 and gradually imposed their direct rule over Iraq, which would last until World War I, although the Mamluks continued to be a dominant socio-political force in Iraq, as most of the administrative personnel of note in Baghdad were drawn from former Mamluk households, or comprised a cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Pasha Of Gucia
Ali Pasha Shabanagaj ( Serbian: Али-паша Шабанагић, Ali-paša Šabanagić; 1828 – 5 March 1888), was an Albanian Muslim military commander and one of the leaders of the League of Prizren. He governed, as an Ottoman ''kaymakam'' (sub-governor), an area in what is today eastern Montenegro around Plav and Gusinje. He was commonly known as Ali Pasha of Gusinje ( tr, Gusinyeli Ali Paşa, sq, Ali Pashë Gucia, Serbian: Али-паша Гусињски, Ali-paša Gusinjski). He was the leader of the Albanian irregular troops of the League of Prizren against the Principality of Montenegro at the Battle of Novšiće. He was governor of the area of Plav and Gusinje located in a valley between steep mountains. Biography Ali Pasha was born in an Albanian Muslim family in 1828 in Gusinje, to landowner Hasan Pasha Shabanagaj. The Shabanagaj were from the Gruemiri tribe (''fis'') and were related via marriage with the Bushati family of Shkodra. Shaban Aga, their epony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, also spelled as Mehmed Emin Aali (March 5, 1815 – September 7, 1871) was a prominent Ottoman statesman during the Tanzimat period, best known as the architect of the Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856, and for his role in the Treaty of Paris (1856) that ended the Crimean War. Âli Pasha was widely regarded as a deft and able statesman, and often credited with preventing an early break-up of the empire. Âli Pasha advocated for a western style of reform to modernize the empire, including secularization of the state and improvements to civil liberties. He worked to pacify nationalist movements while at the same time fend off foreign aggressors that were trying to weaken Ottoman control. He advocated for an Ottoman nationalism that would replace diverse ethnic and religious loyalties. From humble origins as the son of a doorkeeper, Âli Pasha rose through the ranks of the Ottoman state and became the Minister of Foreign Affairs for a short time in 1840, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seydi Ali Pasha
Seydi Ali Pasha (died 1820 or 1821) was an Ottoman grand admiral born in Georgia and was a brother of Ali Al-Tarabulus. He lived in Algeria and later moved to serve in Istanbul. who served as Kapudan Pasha (grand admiral of the Ottoman navy) from 1807 to 23 August 1808, and from 22 November 1808 to 10 April 1809. He was also the governor of Silistra Eyalet from 23 August 1808 to sometime later that year. According to Mehmet Sureyya he was from Georgia. After his last office, he was exiled to modern-day Afyonkarahisar in western Turkey. See also * List of Kapudan Pashas The Kapudan Pasha ( ota, قپودان پاشا, Modern Turkish: ''Kaptan Paşa''), also known in Turkish as Kaptan-ı Derya ("Captain of the Seas"), was the commander-in-chief of the navy of the Ottoman Empire. Around 160 captains served betwe ... References 18th-century births 1820s deaths Year of birth unknown Year of death uncertain 18th-century Ottoman military personnel 19th-century Ottoman m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trabluslu Ali Pasha
Trabluslu Ali Pasha (''Ali Pasha the Tripolitan''; died February 1804), also known as Cezayirli Ali Pasha (''Ali Pasha the Algerian'') or Seydi Ali Pasha, or Ali Burghol (Burghul) was an Ottoman statesman. He served as the Ottoman governor of Egypt from July 1803 to February 1804. Background Ali Pasha was born in Georgia and kidnapped together with his brother. He was "fair-complexioned", had an "immense blond beard and mustache", and spoke Turkish as his native tongue, speaking very little Arabic. He was a slave owned by the Dey of Algiers known as Mohammed ben Uthman, but he eventually rose to a post in the provincial government. After procuring a ship, Ali Pasha sailed to his hometown of Tripoli and briefly wrested control over the Kingdom of Tripolitania from the long-ruling Karamanli dynasty for the Ottoman Empire. The inhabitants of the province reportedly helped him gain control of Tripolitania, since they realized that he was the legitimate Ottoman governor. However, Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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