Mustafa Pasha Bushati

Mustafa Pasha Bushati
Born	Scutari, Sanjak of Scutari (modern Albania)
Died	May 27, 1860 Medina
Nationality	Ottoman
Occupation	Governor
Years active	1810–60

Mustafa Pasha Bushatli (Turkish: Mustafa Paşa Buşatlı, 1797 – May 27, 1860), called Işkodralı ("from Scutari"), was an Ottoman statesman, the last hereditary governor of the sanjak of Scutari. In 1810 he succeeded Ibrahim Bushati and ruled Scutari until 1831.

Mustafa was the son of Kara Mahmud Bushatli. He succeeded his uncle, Ibrahim Pasha in c. 1810 and received the rank of Vizier in 1812.

In 1820, the sanjak of Berat was appropriated to him.

Mustafa led contingents against the Greeks in the Greek War of Independence. The 1823 campaign in Western Greece was led by Mustafa Pasha and Omer Vrioni; On August 24, 1823, Markos Botsaris and 240 Souliots attacked the army of Mustafa Pasha near Karpenisi, attempting to stop the Ottoman advance. The battle ended in Ottoman defeat, and Botsaris was killed in action.

In 1824 the sanjaks of Ohrid and Elbasan were appropriated to him, and he received the title of serasker.

As his father, Mustafa aimed at greater independence, and when Mahmud II's Ottoman military reform efforts threatened to deprive him of his hereditary rights and privileges, he became hostile to the sultan and maintained friendly relations with Serbian Prince Miloš Obrenović, the discontented Bosniaks and Muhammad Ali of Egypt. Thus, he was passive in the early stage of the Russo-Turkish War (1828–29), only in May 1829 he appeared with his Albanians on the Danube (Vidin, Rahovo), then continued to Sofia and Philippopolis, without taking active part in the fighting.

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