Yavuz Ali Pasha or Malkoç Ali Pasha (died 26 July 1604,

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...

) was an Ottoman statesman. He belonged to the

Malkoçoğlu family The Malkoçoğlu ( tr, Malkoçoğulları, Malkoçoğlu ailesi) or Yahyalı was an Ottoman Serbian noble family whose members led the '' akıncı'' corps of the empire between the 14th–16th centuries. They served mainly in the Balkan conquest of ...

and served as the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 16 October 1603 to 26 July 1604 replacing

Yemişçi Hasan Pasha Damat Yemişçi Hasan Pasha ( al, Jemishxhi; 1535, Rogovë, Kosovo – 18 October 1603, Istanbul, Turkey) was an Albanian Ottoman statesman. Hasan, an Albanian who spent his childhood in Rogovo, then went to Prizren, where he finished his p ...

. He had previously served as the

Ottoman governor of Egypt The Ottoman Empire's governors of Egypt from 1517 to 1805 were at various times known by different but synonymous titles, among them ''beylerbey'', viceroy, governor, governor-general, or, more generally, '' wāli''. Furthermore, the Ottoman sul ...

from 1601 to 1603.Uzunçarsılı, İsmail Hakkı, (1954) ''Osmanlı Tarihi III. Cilt, 2. Kısım , XVİ. Yüzyıl Ortalarından XVII. Yüzyıl Sonuna kadar'', Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu (Altıncı Baskı 2011 ) say.360 His installation as Grand Vizier took place on 29 December 1603, over two months after his appointment and a week after the accession of

Ahmed I Ahmed I ( ota, احمد اول '; tr, I. Ahmed; 18 April 1590 – 22 November 1617) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617. Ahmed's reign is noteworthy for marking the first breach in the Ottoman tradition of royal f ...

, due to the time it took him to settle affairs in Egypt and travel to Constantinople. He brought with him two years' worth of the province's back taxes. In the summer of 1604 he left the capital to take up command of Ottoman forces in the on-going war against the Habsburgs. He fell sick on the journey and died in Belgrade on 26 July 1604. Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, ''

Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches ''Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches'' (German: "History of the Ottoman Empire") is a work by the Austrian orientalist historian Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. It was written in 10 volumes between 1827 and 1835. The result of 30 years of work, it b ...

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vol. 2, 1520–1623
(Pest, 1840), p. 679. He was succeeded by Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha as the next Grand vizier of the Ottoman empire.

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