Name: Stolac
Address: Stolac, Anatolia

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Ali Bey al-Kabir

Ali Bey al-Kabir (1728–1773) was a mamluk who became shaykh al-balad and effective ruler of Ottoman Egypt, minting coins in his own name, stopping the annual tribute to Istanbul and in 1769 practically pursuing independence, then conquering the Hejaz and invading Syria in 1770–1771. Kidnapped as a boy from Abkhazia and sold in Cairo, he was raised in Ibrahim Ketkhuda's household and converted to Islam; his rule ended through the betrayal of his own general Abu al-Dahab, and he died in Cairo of wounds taken at the battle of al-Salihiyya in 1773.

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