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ArchivesThanks for supporting my argument, Constantin/Kassandri/BibleRiot!
in reply to a message by BibleRiot
"..by murder and intrigue, BECAME PASHA, OR PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR, of Janina".
So he *became* a PASHA, his "middle name" was not the "albanish" "pasha" meaning "saw" as you erroneously claim. And my whole argument was that PASHA was his title not his name!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for Ali's nationality: Ali lived at a time before "nationalism" was born. At the time, religious identity was the determining factor rather than "national" identity. This is why all Moslems in the Empire identified with the Ottoman Turks, whereas all Christians (Greeks, Slavs, some Albanians etc) called themselves *Romioi*, i.e., descendants of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium).
So whether he was Albanian, Turkish or Eskimo for that matter meant nothing at the time: he was a Moslem Ottoman.
Nationalism along the lines of "Greek, Albanian, etc" was fostered much later, and signalled the end of the Ottoman empire.
So he *became* a PASHA, his "middle name" was not the "albanish" "pasha" meaning "saw" as you erroneously claim. And my whole argument was that PASHA was his title not his name!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for Ali's nationality: Ali lived at a time before "nationalism" was born. At the time, religious identity was the determining factor rather than "national" identity. This is why all Moslems in the Empire identified with the Ottoman Turks, whereas all Christians (Greeks, Slavs, some Albanians etc) called themselves *Romioi*, i.e., descendants of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium).
So whether he was Albanian, Turkish or Eskimo for that matter meant nothing at the time: he was a Moslem Ottoman.
Nationalism along the lines of "Greek, Albanian, etc" was fostered much later, and signalled the end of the Ottoman empire.
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