![]() įrom the Ottoman era until contemporary times a tradition of migration has continued whereby Albanian Muslim scholars and students migrated to Damascus, some to perfect their Arabic. Albanians from Shkoder, Albania arrived in 1924 and settled in Damascus and other Albanians came from Yugoslavia in 1931 fleeing persecution from Serbs. ![]() The largest wave of migrants in Syria was during 1912–1913, when Albanians fled the Balkan Wars. Īlbanians in larger numbers migrated to Syria during the late 19th and early 20th century. Some 100-200 families left Egypt and settled in Syria and later some of their number assimilated while retaining memories of their origin. At the time some Albanians in the army of the Egyptian leader, Ottoman-Albanian Muhammad Ali Pasha refused to go back with the military to Egypt. ![]() The beginning of a settled Albanian community in Syria begins in the early 19th century. During that era Albanians served in other capacities like Sinan Pasha from Topojan who for a time was a governor in the area. The incorporation of Syria into the Ottoman Empire brought Janissary soldiers to urban centres of Syria such as Damascus, of which Albanians recruited from the Balkans in the seventeenth century were a noticeable presence alongside other Ottoman troops from different ethnicities. The Dukaginzade would become one of the principal families of Aleppo in the Ottoman era Al-Adiliyah Mosque in Aleppo was commissioned in the 16th century by Dukaginzade Mehmed Pasha, son of Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha.
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