Abdi Pasha the AlbanianW
Abdi Pasha the Albanian

Abdurrahman Abdi Pasha the Albanian was an Ottoman politician and military leader of Albanian descent, who served as the last governor of the province of Budin.

Ahmed Izzet PashaW
Ahmed Izzet Pasha

Ahmed Izzet Pasha, , known as Ahmet İzzet Furgaç after the Turkish Surname Law of 1934, was an Ottoman general of Albanian descent during World War I. He was also one of the last Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire and its last Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Ali Pasha of IoanninaW
Ali Pasha of Ioannina

Ali Pasha, variously referred to as of Tepelena or of Janina/Yannina/Ioannina, or the Lion of Yannina, was an Ottoman Albanian ruler who served as pasha of a large part of western Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire's European territories, which was referred to as the Pashalik of Yanina. His court was in Ioannina, and the territory he governed incorporated most of Epirus and the western parts of Thessaly and Greek Macedonia. Ali had three sons: Muhtar Pasha, who served in the 1809 war against the Russians, Veli Pasha, who became Pasha of the Morea Eyalet and Salih Pasha, governor of Vlore.

Ali Pasha of GusinjeW
Ali Pasha of Gusinje

Ali Pasha Shabanagaj, was an Albanian military commander and one of the leaders of the League of Prizren. He governed, as an Ottoman kaymakam (sub-governor), an area in what is today eastern Montenegro around Plav and Gusinje. He was commonly known as Ali Pasha of Gusinje. He was the leader of the Albanian irregular troops of the League of Prizren against the Principality of Montenegro at the Battle of Novšiće.

Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin PashaW
Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha

Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha (1644–1702) of the Köprülü family, was the grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire under Mustafa II from September 1697 until September 1702. Amcazade Koprulu Huseyin Pasha was close to ordinary Ottoman Muslim subjects being a member of the Mevlevi Order. He was known to be concerned with the needs of the common people as well as those of the military and bureaucratic classes.

Kara Mahmud PashaW
Kara Mahmud Pasha

Kara Mahmud Pasha was a hereditary Ottoman Albanian governor (mutasarrıf) of the Pashalik of Scutari and de jure ruler of Albania, belonging to the Ottoman Albanian Bushati family (Buşatlı).

Mehmet Pashë DerallaW
Mehmet Pashë Deralla

Mehmet Pashë Deralla was an Ottoman Albanian military officer and civil servant, and one of the delegates of the Albanian Declaration of Independence. Derralla served as Minister of War in the Provisional Government of Albania. He was a major figure of anti-Ottoman uprisings, and also opposed Serbian and Montenegrin encroachments.

Abedin DinoW
Abedin Dino

Abedin bey Dino, also Abedin Pasha was an Albanian patriot, politician, ideologue and diplomat. As a rilindas involved in the Albanian National Awakening, he was one of the founders of the League of Prizren and its chief representative for Epirus (1878). Dino was one of the main promoters in the need for the creation of the Autonomous Albanian Vilayet under the Ottoman suzerainty, and later a contributor in the Albanian independence.

Bib Dodë PashaW
Bib Dodë Pasha

Bib Doda Pasha (1820–1868) was the chieftain of the Mirdita Albanian tribe in the Ottoman Sanjak of Scutari. He held the Ottoman rank of kapedan (captain) and the honorific pasha (governor).

Aqif Pasha ElbasaniW
Aqif Pasha Elbasani

Aqif Pasha Biçaku mostly known as Aqif Pashë Elbasani was an Ottoman Albanian political figure in the Sanjak of Elbasan and after the Young Turk Revolution became an activist for the Albanian national cause.

Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed PashaW
Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha

Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha was an Ottoman nobleman and statesman, who was a member of the renowned Köprülü family of Albanian origin, which produced six grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire.

Köprülü Mehmed PashaW
Köprülü Mehmed Pasha

Köprülü Mehmed Pasha was the founder of the Köprülü political dynasty of the Ottoman Empire, a family of viziers, warriors, and statesmen who dominated the administration of the Ottoman Empire during the last half of the 17th century, an era known as the Köprülü era. He helped rebuild the power of the empire by rooting out corruption and reorganizing the Ottoman army. As he introduced these changes, Köprülü also expanded the borders of the empire, defeating the Cossacks, the Hungarians, and most impressively, the Venetians. Köprülü's effectiveness was matched by his reputation.

Lütfi PashaW
Lütfi Pasha

Lütfi Pasha was an Albanian Ottoman statesman, general, and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman the Magnificent from 1539 to 1541.

Mehmed Ferid PashaW
Mehmed Ferid Pasha

Mehmed Ferid Pasha was an Ottoman statesman of ethnic Albanian background. He served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 15 January 1903 until 22 July 1908, at the time when the Sultan restored the 1876 Constitution following the Young Turk Revolution. Other than Ottoman Turkish he spoke the Albanian, Arabic, French, Italian, and Greek languages.

Mehmet Akif PashaW
Mehmet Akif Pasha

Mehmet Akif Pasha (1822–1893), also known as Arnavut Mehmet Akif Pasha and Kalkandereli Mehmet Akif Pasha, was an Ottoman-Albanian statesman and governor of the Ottoman Empire.

Kara Mustafa PashaW
Kara Mustafa Pasha

Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha was an Albanian Ottoman nobleman, military figure and Grand Vizier, who was a central character in the Ottoman Empire's last attempts at expansion into both Central and Eastern Europe.

Reshid Akif PashaW
Reshid Akif Pasha

Reshid Akif Pasha, was an Ottoman statesman during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. Throughout his career as a politician, Reshid Akif Paşa served as governor, minister of the interior, and in the Council of State. He is also noted for providing important testimony in the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide.

Alemdar Mustafa PashaW
Alemdar Mustafa Pasha

Alemdar Mustafa Pasha was an Albanian Ottoman military commander and a Grand Vizier born in Khotyn in then Ottoman territory Ukraine in 1765. He was of Tosk Albanian origin, from the village of Goskovë near Korçë. Both alemdar and bayraktar mean "the standard bearer" and were the names given to the same rank in the Janissary corps. Alemdar Mustafa Pasha is often regarded as one of the pioneering public figures, who recognized the need of a modern army, as he was instrumental in setting up the French military mission in 1796.

Rexhep Pasha MatiW
Rexhep Pasha Mati

Rexhep Pasha Mati was an Ottoman-Albanian Marshal, governor and war minister.

Shemsi Pasha (general)W
Shemsi Pasha (general)

Shemsi Pasha (1846-1908) was an Ottoman-Albanian General.

Koca Sinan PashaW
Koca Sinan Pasha

Koca Sinan Pasha was an Ottoman Grand Vizier, military figure, and statesman. From 1580 till his death he served five times as Grand Vizier.

Sulejman BargjiniW
Sulejman Bargjini

Sulejman Pasha Bargjini was an ethnic Albanian general and Governor of the Ottoman Empire. He was originally from Bargjin, but he settled in the village of Mullet, Albania and probably served as a Janissary, he was given the title Pasha. As an ethnic Albanian, he had fought for the Ottomans against the Safavids in Persia. After that he had built a mosque, a bakery and a hammam. He founded the settlement of Tirana, now the capital of Albania, in 1614 as an oriental-style town of those times. According to some legends, he named the town he founded after Tehran, the capital of Persia. With Suleymans foundations, Tirana soon became the center of Albanian art, culture and religion, it became famous because of its strategic position at the heart of Albania.

Hasan Tahsin PashaW
Hasan Tahsin Pasha

Hasan Tahsin Pasha (1845–1918) was a senior Albanian Ottoman military officer, who served in Yemen and in the First Balkan War.

Essad Pasha ToptaniW
Essad Pasha Toptani

Essad Pasha Toptani or Esad Pasha Toptani, mainly known as Essad Pasha, was an Ottoman army officer who served as the Albanian deputy in the Ottoman Parliament. He was a prominent politician in early 20th-century Albania. Toptani cooperated with the Balkan League after the Balkan Wars and established a state in central Albania, based in Durrës, called the Republic of Central Albania.

Vaso PashaW
Vaso Pasha

Vaso Pasha, also known as Pashko Vasa or Wassa Pasha, was an Ottoman Albanian writer, poet and publicist of the Albanian National Awakening, and mutasarrif of Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate from 1882 until his death.

Xhelal Pasha ZogolliW
Xhelal Pasha Zogolli

Xhelal Pasha Zogolli was hereditary governor of Mati, father of Xhemal Pasha Zogu and grandfather of King Zog I.

Xhemal Pasha ZoguW
Xhemal Pasha Zogu

Xhemal Pasha Zogu, also known as Jamal Pasha or Jamal Pasha Zogolli, was the Hereditary Governor of Mati, Albania. He was the father of King Zog I of Albania.