Ioannina Castle
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The Ioannina Castle is the fortified old town of the city of Ioannina in northwestern Greece. The present fortification dates largely to the reconstruction under Ali Pasha in the late Ottoman period,
Clock tower over the main gate of the Ioannina Castle
View of Its Kale and the palace of Ali Pasha from the Lake of Ioannina in the 1820s, by Louis Dupré
Road to the castle
West gate
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.
Ioannina Castle
…Ιωαννίνων) is the fortified old town of the city of Ioannina in northwestern Greece. The present fortification dates largely to the reconstruction under Ali Pasha in the late Ottoman period, but incorporates also pre-existing Byzantine elements. Ioannina is first definitely mentioned in a 1020 decree by the…
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)