Ali Pasha of Yanina
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Ali Pasha, commonly known as Ali Pasha of Yanina or Ali Pasha of Tepelena, was an Albanian ruler who served as pasha of the Pashalik of Yanina, a large part of western Rumelia, in the Ottoman Empire.
Portrait of Ali Pasha in 1818 by Spyridon Ventouras
The statue of Ali Pasha in Tepelenë
Portrait of Ali Pasha, drawn by Charles Robert Cockerell (published in 1820), based on Thomas Smart Hughes' travels in Albania in 1813.
"Ali Pasha of Janina hunting in the lake of Butrint in March 1819" by Louis Dupré (1825)
Ioannina
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Ioannina, often called Yanina, is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina regional unit and of Epirus, an administrative region in northwestern Greece.
Ali Pasha of Yanina
…Under his rule, it acquired a high degree of autonomy from Konstantinople and even managed to stay de facto independent. The capital of the Pashalik was Ioannina, which, along with Tepelena, was Ali's headquarters. Conceiving his territory in increasingly independent terms, Ali Pasha's correspondence and foreign…
The "Rule of Sinan Pasha" (9 October 1430), written in Greek, granted to the citizens a series of privileges under Ottoman control
Interior view of the dome of the Aslan Pasha Mosque built on the site of the Church of Saint John, which was torn down after the failed anti-Ottoman revolt of 1611
The old Zosimaia School, now municipal school
Zois Kaplanis, Greek philanthropist from Ioannina, founder of the Kaplaneios School