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Ali Pasha of Ioannina was an Ottoman Albanian ruler who was Pasha of a realm in western Rumelia called the Pashalik of Yanina. Pashalik was never recognized by Ottoman authorities, but did exist de facto. Interestingly, though he was Albanian, his court language was Greek. Over time he and his sons would go on to control de facto most of Albania (south and central portions of today's albania), the peloponnese, Western Greece, and bits of Thessaly and Greek Macedonia before he was declared a rebel in 1820 and killed in 1822.
In his time, he befriended Husein Gradascevic (who would lead the 1831-32 Bosnian Revolt), Ibrahim Pasha (of Scutari/Shkoder), and Muhammad Ali of Egypt.
What if Ali Pasha, along with Ibrahim of Scutaria, Husein Gradascevic, and the souliotes, established a sultanate of Yanina separate from the Ottoman Empire comprised of the lands from Peloponnese to Bosnia?