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Line 106: [[File:Kavala, Greece Mohammed Ali House 76.jpg|thumb|left|Muhammad Ali's birthplace in [[Kavala]], now in northeastern Greece.]] Muhammad Ali was born in the [[Sanjak of Kavala]] (modern-day [[Kavala]]), in the [[Rumelia Eyalet]], to an [[Albanians|Albanian]] family from [[Korçë|Korça]] region.
He was the second son of a [[Bektashi Order|Bektashi]] [[Albanians|Albanian]] tobacco and shipping merchant named Ibrahim Agha, who also served as an Ottoman commander of a small unit in their hometown.<ref name="Aksan">{{cite book |last=Aksan |first=Virginia |author-link=Virginia H. Aksan |title=Ottoman Wars, 1700–1860: An Empire Besieged |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |orig-year=2007 |pages=306–307 |isbn=978-0-582-30807-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UaesAgAAQBAJ |quote=Born in the late 1760s, at Kavala in Macedonia, Mehmed Ali was the son of an Albanian Ottoman soldier.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kia |first1=Mehrdad |title=The Ottoman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes] |date=2017 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-61069-389-9 |page=87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UgUmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 |language=en |quote=His father... was the commander of a small army unit that served the governor of Kavala}}</ref><ref name="Elsie2012">{{Cite book |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History |author=Robert Elsie |publisher=I.B. Tauris |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-78076-431-3 |page=303 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pgf6GWJxuZgC&pg=PA303}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Kiel |first=Machiel |author-link=Machiel Kiel |title=Ottoman Architecture in Albania, 1385–1912 |volume=5 |series=Islamic art series |publisher=Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture |year=1990 |isbn=978-92-9063-330-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2xYzAAAAIAAJ |page=163 |quote=The father of the famous viceroy of Egypt, Muhammed Ali, was a citizen of Korçë.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Katsikas |first=Stefanos |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c30_EAAAQBAJ |title=Islam and Nationalism in Modern Greece, 1821–1940 |date=2021 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=193 |isbn=978-0-19-065200-5 |language=en}}</ref> His mother was Zeynep, the daughter of Çorbaci Husain Agha, another Muslim Albanian [[Ottoman Ayan|notable]] in Kavala.<ref name="Stanton2012">{{cite book |last1=Stanton |first1=Andrea |title=Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa: An Encyclopedia |date=2012 |publisher=SAGE |isbn=978-1-4129-8176-7 |page=165 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtCL2OYsH6wC&pg=PA165}}</ref> When his father died at a young age, Muhammad was taken and raised by his uncle Husain Agha with his cousins.<ref name="Stanton2012" /> As a reward for Muhammad Ali's hard work, his uncle gave him the rank of "[[Bolukbashi]]" for the collection of taxes in the town of Kavala.<ref name="Elsie2012" /> Muhammad Ali later [[cousin marriage|married his cousin]] [[Amina Hanim]], a wealthy widow. She was the daughter of Ali Agha and Kadriye (Zeynep's sister). |