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

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) was an Ottoman statesman. He belonged to the

Malkoçoğlu family The Malkoçoğlu family () () or Yahyali was one of the ghazi families of Serbian origin that led the akıncı corps in the Ottoman Empire between the 14th-16th centuries. They served mainly in the Balkan conquest of the empire. The members of the ...

and served as the

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire The grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire ( or ''Sadr-ı Azam'' (''Sadrazam''); Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish: or ) was the ''de facto'' prime minister of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, sultan in the Ottoman Empire, with the absolute p ...

from 16 October 1603 to 26 July 1604 replacing Yemişçi Hasan Pasha. He had previously served as the

Ottoman governor of Egypt The Ottoman Empire's governors of Egypt Eyalet, 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, th ...

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

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, 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.

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, ''

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''
vol. 2, 1520–1623
(Pest, 1840), p. 679. He was succeeded by

Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha (died 21 June 1606) was an Ottoman Bosnian statesman. He may have been a cousin of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and served as tutor (''lala'') to a royal prince. He was the grand vizier between 1604 and 1606.İsmail Hâmi D ...

as the next Grand vizier of the Ottoman empire.

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