Tepelenë
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Tepelenë is a city and a municipality in Gjirokastër County, in the south of Albania. The town is on the left bank of the Vjosa River, about three kilometres downstream from its union with the Drino.
Tepelena Castle and New Town
Tepelenë in April 1857 by Edward Lear.
The new SH4 between Fier and Tepelenë.
The fortress of Tepelena on the Vjosa River depicted by Edward Lear in 1848.
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.
Tepelenë
…the seat of the Tepelenë District. Its location is strategically important and there is a ruined citadel occupying a point 300 metres above the river. Ali Pasha of Yanina was born at the nearby village of Beçisht, and Tepelena along with Ioannina were Ali's headquarters. In 1847, the British writer Edward…
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)