Ioannina (18) : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Ioannina (18) / TijsB
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Ioánnina is a town of 100.000 inhabitants, of which are many students.We stayed on the campsite which is also used as a rowing club for sporty Greek cuties. The campsite has a view on the most polluted lake of Europe: lake Pamvotis (Παμβώτις). In the evening we strolled around the old town and visied the bars along the waterfront. A huge fortress reminds of the time that this was the capital of Ali Pasha's empire. Ali Pasha (born in 1741), the military ruler (pasha) of a large area of the Ottoman Empire's European territories, was known as the Lion of Ioánnina. He achieved a notorious reputation as a cruel and bloodthirsty tyrant.Ali's parents were both killed and a a boy he formed a band of brigands. As a brigand leader he attracted the attention of the Turkish authorities, who asked him to stop a rebellion at Shkodër. He married the daughter of the wealthy pasha of Delvino, with whom he entered an alliance. After supporting the sultan's war against Austria, he seized control of Ioánnina, which remained his power base for the next 33 years. Soon after that he expanded his territory with Albania, western Greece and the Peloponnese.Ali allied himself with whomever offered the most advantage: to gain a seaport on the Albanian coast Ali cooperated with Napoleon I. After Napoleon was defeated in Egypt, Ali switched sides and allied with the United Kingdom. The poet Byron, who visited Ali's court in Ioánnina in 1809, described the splendour of Ali's court and the Greek cultural revival in Ioánnina, as being "superior in wealth, refinement and learning". However, Byron also deplored Ali's cruelty: "His Highness is a remorseless tyrant, guilty of the most horrible cruelties, very brave, so good a general that they call him the Mahometan Buonaparte ... but as barbarous as he is successful, roasting rebels". The cruelties inflicted by Ali Pasha on his subjects became notorious throughout the region. Forty years after the inhabitants of Gardiki, Albania had wronged his mother, Ali wrought revenge by having 739 male descendants of the original offenders murdered. In 1801, he attempted to rape the mistress of his eldest son, but was thwarted; his revenge was to have the girl and seventeen of her companions bound, gagged and thrown alive into Lake Pamvotis. In January 1822, Ottoman agents assassinated Ali Pasha and sent his head to Constantinople. He was buried with full honors and despite his, at times, brutal rule, villagers paid their last respect to Ali: "Never was seen greater mourning than that of the warlike Epirotes (the people from the region where Ali came from and lived)." |
| 撮影日 | 2009-04-29 19:30:19 |
| 撮影者 | TijsB , Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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| カメラ | DSLR-A200 , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.077 sec (1/13) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.6 |
| 焦点距離 | 35 mm |