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8 unusual facts about Yanina


Albanian Revolt of 1843–44

According to the report of a French diplomat in Yanina even women and children participated in the battle.

Albanian Revolts of 1833–39

While the agreement was quickly violated by the Ottoman government, the rebels under Tafil Buzi rose up again, this time marching to Yanina.

Edward Gordon Jones

He was in action within days, engaging a formation of more modern Fiat CR.42 fighters, also biplanes, of the Italian Regia Aeronautica to the north of Yanina.

Massacre of the Albanian Beys

In January 5, 1829, only one month after the Convention of Berat, its leader, Ismail bey Qemali, was killed in Yanina by people of Reşid Mehmed Pasha, which caused an upheaval in Southern Albania: in Yanina, Zagoria, Konitsa and Metsovo the Ottoman functionaries were asked to leave by the local population.

During the era of the Albanian Pashaliks, the influence of the local Albanian beys had weakened since they had lost the Pashalik of Yanina.

Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople

With Patriarch Jeremias' influence seven schools opened in the late 16th century, in Athens, Livadia, Chios, Smyrna, Kydonies, Patmos and Yanina.

Sati' al-Husri

In 1900, he graduated from the Royal Academy, and worked as a schoolteacher in Yanina in Epirus, then part of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire.

Thymios Vlachavas

In the 19th century, he achieved a prominent position among the other klepht leaders, and led the fight against Ali Pasha, the powerful and semi-independent Ottoman governor of Yanina.


Hurshid Pasha

In November 1820, he was named mora valisi, governor of the Morea Eyalet (the Peloponnese), with seat at Tripoli and serasker of the expedition against the rebellious Ali Pasha of Yanina.


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