Pashalik of Scutari
Pashalik of Scutari Pashallëku i Shkodrës | |||||||||||
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| 1757–1831 | |||||||||||
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Flag during the reign of Kara Mahmud Bushati | |||||||||||
Albanian pashaliks in 1790-1795. The Pashalik of Shkodra is colored in blue. | |||||||||||
Pashalik of Scutari in 1785 | |||||||||||
| Status | Autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire; de facto independent | ||||||||||
| Capital | Shkodër | ||||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam Roman Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy | ||||||||||
| Government | Pashalik | ||||||||||
| Pasha | |||||||||||
• 1757–1774 | Mehmed Bushati | ||||||||||
• 1774–1778 | Mustafa Bushati | ||||||||||
• 1778–1796 | Kara Mahmud Bushati | ||||||||||
• 1796–1810 | Ibrahim Bushati | ||||||||||
• 1810–1831 | Mustafa Sherifi Bushati | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||||
• Established | 1757 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1831 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia (only for a short amount of time)
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The Pashalik of Scutari (1757–1831), also known as the Bushati Pashalik, was an Albanian pashalik within the Ottoman Empire that was ruled by the Bushati family. Its capital was Shkodër and ruled areas in modern-day Albania and large majority of modern-day Montenegro.
At its peak, during the reign of Kara Mahmud Bushati, the pashalik encompassed much of Albania and Kosovo, western Macedonia, southeastern Serbia, and most of Montenegro. Up to 1830, the Pashalik of Shkodra controlled most of the aforementioned lands (including southern Montenegro).