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- Title
THE ROLE OF ALBANIAN LEADERS IN THE OTTOMAN STATE IN THE CENTURY XVII AND THE FALL OF THE ALBANIAN, ABDURRAHMAN ABDI PASHA IN BUDIN.
- Authors
ISLAMI, Agron
- Abstract
The Ottoman state and the geography they ruled had a heterogeneous character. As a result of this, the peoples ruled by them belonged to different ethnicities and beliefs. They were Turks, Albanians, Bosniaks, Serbs, Greeks, Arabs, Persians, Gypsies, etc. therefore their religious beliefs were different from each-other. Although the Sultan ethnically was of turkish origin, the personnel of the army and the administration was the most cosmopolitiest of the time, as it representes pesonalities of different nations who guided different positions as the Grand Vizier, Viziers, Serdars, and other prominent positions in the administration of Ottoman state. Given that Albanians from the classical Ottoman period, including the period prior to Constantinople's (Istanbul) conquest, had become part of Ottoman leadership through the Devshirme system, we find them in the highest possible positions, since the middle of the 15th century, as the case of Gedik Ahmet Pasha (1474-1478), Davut Pasha (1482-1497), and dozens other leaders of Albanian descent. In this paper we will treat the role of the Köprülü in the leadership of the state from the position of Grand Vizier and the contribution of albanian, Abdurrahman Abdi Pasha from Peqini to the defense of Budin in 1686 from the position of the city's governor.
- Publication
Vizione, 2018, Issue 31, p293
- ISSN
1409-8962
- Publication type
Article