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Ali Pasha

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In [[1812]] he bought an alchemical laboratory from Venice because he wanted to find a way to become immortal. When his scientists failed to find it after five years of research he had them hanged.
Ali Pasha went too far and his enemies, some of them robbed of their territories, appealed to the [[Mahmud II|Sultan ]] to remove him from power. As Janina was attacked by the Turks his allies and even his sons abandoned him. After he was promised a pardon he ordered the castle of Ioaninna Ioannina to surrender to the Turkish army of 20,000 man. Waiting at the monastery of Pandeleimonos for his pardon to be read he was killed. His body was decapitated and his head was placed on a silver salver and for three days put on view in the city. Then it was sent to Constantinople where it reached the [[Mahmud II|Sultan ]] on [[February 23]] and was put on public display outside the Seraglio. The engagement of the Turkish troops in removing Ali Pasha from power helped the Greeks with their struggle for independence.
The story of Ali Pasha's downfall was fictionalized in ''The Count of Monte Cristo'', by Alexandre Dumas. In this famous novel, the daughter of Ali Pasha becomes a slave of the Count and helps him take revenge on the man who betrayed her father.

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