Ahmet Kurt Pasha was an Albanian pasha and the founder and the first ruler of the

Pashalik of Berat The Pashalik of Berat was a pashalik created in modern-day central Albania by Ahmet Kurt Pasha in 1774 and dissolved after Ahmet's ally, Ibrahim Pasha of Berat was defeated by Ali Pasha in 1809, thus incorporating the pashalik, with the Pashalik ...

, a semi-autonomous area within the

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. He descended from the Muzaka family, which in the late Middle Ages had founded the Lordship of Berat.

Creation of the Pashalik

Ahmet Kurt Pasha managed to conspire with the Sublime Porte against Mehmed Pasha Bushati in 1774, thus creating the

. For his service, the

Sultan Sultan (; ar, سلطان ', ) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ', meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it ...

gave him territories in central

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. He then managed to extend his pashalik until his death in 1787, incorporating territories of all central Albania, bordering to the north with the

Pashalik of Scutari The Pashalik of Scutari, Iskodra, or Shkodra (1757–1831), was an autonomous and ''de facto'' independent '' pashalik'' created by the Albanian Bushati family from the previous Sanjak of Scutari, which was situated around the city of Shkod� ...

and to the south with the

Pashalik of Yanina The Pashalik of Yanina, sometimes referred to as the Pashalik of Ioanina or Pashalik of Janina, was an autonomous pashalik within the Ottoman Empire between 1787 and 1822 covering large areas of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia. The pashali ...

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*"History of Albanian People" Albanian Academy of Science. 18th-century Albanian people Ahmet Kurt {{europe-noble-stub

Creation of the Pashalik

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