Pashalik of Scutari Pashallëku i Shkodrës | |||||||||||
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| 1757–1831 | |||||||||||
 Flag during the reign of Kara Mahmud Bushati | |||||||||||
 Albanian pashaliks in 1790-1795. The Pashalik of Shkodra is colored in blue. | |||||||||||
 Pashalik of Scutari in 1785 | |||||||||||
| Status | Autonomous province, de facto independent[1] | ||||||||||
| Capital | Shkodër | ||||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam Roman Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy | ||||||||||
| Government | Pashalik | ||||||||||
| Pasha | |||||||||||
• 1757–1774 | Mehmed Bushati | ||||||||||
• 1774–1778 | Mustafa Bushati | ||||||||||
• 1778–1796 | Kara Mahmud Bushati | ||||||||||
• 1796–1810 | Ibrahim Bushati | ||||||||||
• 1810–1831 | Mustafa Sherifi Bushati | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||||
• Established | 1757 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1831 | ||||||||||
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The Pashalik of Scutari (1757–1831), also known as the Bushati Pashalik,[2] was an Albanian pashalik ruled by the Bushati family. Its capital was Shkodër and ruled areas in modern-day Albania and large majority of modern-day Montenegro.[1]
At its peak during the reign of Kara Mahmud Bushati the pashalik encompassed much of Albania, most of Kosovo, western Macedonia, southeastern Serbia and most of Montenegro. Up to 1830 the Pashalik of Shkodra controlled most of the above lands including Southern Montenegro.[3][4]
- ^ a b Elsie 2005, p. 65.
- ^ Brisku, Adrian (2013-08-01). Bittersweet Europe: Albanian and Georgian Discourses on Europe, 1878-2008. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0-85745-985-5.
- ^ Vickers 1999, p. 18.
- ^ Iseni 2008, p. 120.