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 | | Ali Pasha Tepelena was born in 1740 at Tepelenë in southern Albania, and in his youth was a leader of brigands. |
| | His ambitions were to amass a great fortune, to avenge himself on his private enemies, and to become the independent ruler of Albania and part of Greece. |
| | At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, the Ottoman empire entered a new phase of decline. |
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