It is an extraordinary story of a boy who was born in Zemblak of Korca in 1769. His family moved to Kavala, Greece, the city built by Alexander the Great in the memory of his horse. Muhammad Ali was the 17th child of Ibrahim Agai.
According to legend, the first public task is performed by Muhammad Ali when he was only 18-years old. A nearby village did not pay taxes. He went with 10 armed men and asked to meet four leaders of the village. He put them in mosques and promised they would not get out alive if the village did not pay taxes.
Looking at the situation of Egypt at that time, Muhammad Ali was the one who started the development of the country and himself. A great burst, the Albanian leader of Egypt gave to agriculture, industry and trade, increasing the well-being of the people of Egypt.
In Alexandria, Rozet, Damia and elsewhere began to built large factories, while the French yield support. More than a thousand ships traversing the Nile.
Thus, the city of the pharaohs began to unravel. French missions began to work on archeology. In 1822, Campollion found and unbuttoned the alphabet oh hieroglyphs, crowning a jod that started in 1798
"The Muhammad Ali work is rare and strange to the history of the world, is full of triumphs, profits in war and diplomacy, after which the historian is shocked", writes in his book, Alexander Xhuvani.
In 1824, following the barbarian uprisings in Greece, Sultan Mahmud II was not able to crush the Greek rebellion, and asked help from Muhammad Ali, who send his son Ibrahim Pasha at the top of this expedition, who succeded in suppressing the revolts in Greece. As a result of this victory, Muhammad Ali was awarded by the Sultan to become governor of Crete. But the major powers (Britain, France, Russia), seeing the broad sprawl of Muhammad Ali from Sudan to Crete, in 1827 sent their armies to battle Ibrahim Pasha, the son of MuhammadAli, who after the collision with the great powers broke down, and was forced to leave the fight on Greek terrorism. He left 93 warships on the battlefield.
Earlier, he and his son destroyed the Wahhabi movement that had invaded Mecca and Medina. They even arrested Wahhabi state leader, Abdullah bin Saud, executed in Istanbul.
After the battle of 1839, who by the son of Muhammad Ali, Ibrahim Pasha, who broke the Ottoman armies in Konya, Anatolia, began the march toward Constantinople, where, according to many historians, the ambitions of Muhammad Ali were to become the Sultan the Islamic state. But, seeing the strength and vitality of Muhammad Ali, the great powers stopped and again threatened Muhammad Ali, not to advance further.
After this latest effort, Muhammad Ali retreated to Egypt, where was granted the right of Khedivllek (absolute rulers) on Egypt, where his nephew's generation led Egipt until 1952.
On August 2, 1849, Muhammad Ali Pasha died in Alexandria. His body was wrapped in a cashmere shawl, in his head the Tunisian feast and his sword. The coffin was followed by 22 sheiks, reading verses from the Koran on the road to the mosque of the Alabastrs to Cairo, where he was buried. This was the story of an Albanian from Kavala, who was illiterate, but within a few years transformed Egypt in a port of interaction of European and Egyptian cultures.
Ismail Pasha's successor Muhammad Ali is known as the modernizer of Egypt. He ruled from 1863 until 1879.
He was the leader who founded the postal service, modernized the army, turning it into a modern army, constructed the railway. His largest did well known all over the world is the Suez Canal, an artificial sea channel, with a length of 163 kilometers - the hub connecting the eastern and western hemispheres of the earth. The Suez Canal has great strategic importance because it is the most important marine tanker to supply Europe with Middle East oil. The Suez Canal was opened in 1869. The high cost of construction of this channel forced Ismail Pasha to sell it to the British, who build it in concession.
The last of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty was King Farouk, ousted from the throne from nationalist uprisings.
In 1952 times changed in Egypt. Nationalists refused to be ruled by the kingdom dynasty. The revolution led by General Abdul Nasser overthrew the dynasty of Albanian blood. On January 26, 1952 a partial burning of the city of Cairo occurred and on July 23, when Faruk was in Alexandria, the conspirator group "Free Officers" led by General Naguib took control of Cairo.
King Faruk immigrated to Italy and died in Rome in 1965.
What have been said about king Faruk:
Dora d'Istria: Muhammad Ali is grabbed by such a passion for France, as one can say that the rebirth of the pharaohs of the ancient empire, is the result of a Franco-Albanian alliance!
French Consul, Mourriez: I asked him one day why so often Muhammad Ali said he was Albanian. He replied: "I am such and my tongue is Albanian. Do you hear me when I speak to the guards! ... I am an Albanian and as an Albanian, I'm going to die, though I tried to be a good Egyptian!
Fan Noli: Muhammad Ali was really religious but no fanatic and this crucial fact made him open to Western ideas, because of fanaticism nothing good comes. A fabulous idea, fully confirmed by History and thrown away in disgust from French luminaries of the 18th century and by the French Revolution itself."
In Alexandria, Rozet, Damia and elsewhere began to built large factories, while the French yield support. More than a thousand ships traversing the Nile.
Thus, the city of the pharaohs began to unravel. French missions began to work on archeology. In 1822, Campollion found and unbuttoned the alphabet oh hieroglyphs, crowning a jod that started in 1798
"The Muhammad Ali work is rare and strange to the history of the world, is full of triumphs, profits in war and diplomacy, after which the historian is shocked", writes in his book, Alexander Xhuvani.
In 1824, following the barbarian uprisings in Greece, Sultan Mahmud II was not able to crush the Greek rebellion, and asked help from Muhammad Ali, who send his son Ibrahim Pasha at the top of this expedition, who succeded in suppressing the revolts in Greece. As a result of this victory, Muhammad Ali was awarded by the Sultan to become governor of Crete. But the major powers (Britain, France, Russia), seeing the broad sprawl of Muhammad Ali from Sudan to Crete, in 1827 sent their armies to battle Ibrahim Pasha, the son of MuhammadAli, who after the collision with the great powers broke down, and was forced to leave the fight on Greek terrorism. He left 93 warships on the battlefield.
Earlier, he and his son destroyed the Wahhabi movement that had invaded Mecca and Medina. They even arrested Wahhabi state leader, Abdullah bin Saud, executed in Istanbul.
After the battle of 1839, who by the son of Muhammad Ali, Ibrahim Pasha, who broke the Ottoman armies in Konya, Anatolia, began the march toward Constantinople, where, according to many historians, the ambitions of Muhammad Ali were to become the Sultan the Islamic state. But, seeing the strength and vitality of Muhammad Ali, the great powers stopped and again threatened Muhammad Ali, not to advance further.
After this latest effort, Muhammad Ali retreated to Egypt, where was granted the right of Khedivllek (absolute rulers) on Egypt, where his nephew's generation led Egipt until 1952.
On August 2, 1849, Muhammad Ali Pasha died in Alexandria. His body was wrapped in a cashmere shawl, in his head the Tunisian feast and his sword. The coffin was followed by 22 sheiks, reading verses from the Koran on the road to the mosque of the Alabastrs to Cairo, where he was buried. This was the story of an Albanian from Kavala, who was illiterate, but within a few years transformed Egypt in a port of interaction of European and Egyptian cultures.
Ismail Pasha's successor Muhammad Ali is known as the modernizer of Egypt. He ruled from 1863 until 1879.
He was the leader who founded the postal service, modernized the army, turning it into a modern army, constructed the railway. His largest did well known all over the world is the Suez Canal, an artificial sea channel, with a length of 163 kilometers - the hub connecting the eastern and western hemispheres of the earth. The Suez Canal has great strategic importance because it is the most important marine tanker to supply Europe with Middle East oil. The Suez Canal was opened in 1869. The high cost of construction of this channel forced Ismail Pasha to sell it to the British, who build it in concession.
The last of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty was King Farouk, ousted from the throne from nationalist uprisings.
In 1952 times changed in Egypt. Nationalists refused to be ruled by the kingdom dynasty. The revolution led by General Abdul Nasser overthrew the dynasty of Albanian blood. On January 26, 1952 a partial burning of the city of Cairo occurred and on July 23, when Faruk was in Alexandria, the conspirator group "Free Officers" led by General Naguib took control of Cairo.
King Faruk immigrated to Italy and died in Rome in 1965.
What have been said about king Faruk:
Dora d'Istria: Muhammad Ali is grabbed by such a passion for France, as one can say that the rebirth of the pharaohs of the ancient empire, is the result of a Franco-Albanian alliance!
French Consul, Mourriez: I asked him one day why so often Muhammad Ali said he was Albanian. He replied: "I am such and my tongue is Albanian. Do you hear me when I speak to the guards! ... I am an Albanian and as an Albanian, I'm going to die, though I tried to be a good Egyptian!
Fan Noli: Muhammad Ali was really religious but no fanatic and this crucial fact made him open to Western ideas, because of fanaticism nothing good comes. A fabulous idea, fully confirmed by History and thrown away in disgust from French luminaries of the 18th century and by the French Revolution itself."