Ali Beg
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Ali Beg or Ali Bey Evrenos-ogly was Ottoman
Ottoman Empire
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 military commander in 15th century. He was one of the sons of Evrenos, an Ottoman general.

There was a rumour that Hunyadi was Ali Beg's groom. Hunyadi became intimate of the king of Hungary after he fled from Ali.

Ali Beg was sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Albania. During the Ottoman campaigns of 1435 and 1436 Ali Beg, together with another Ottoman general Turakhan Beg, suppressed the revolt in Albania
Albania
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 led by Gjergj Arianiti and Andrew Thopia.

He commanded an army which was sent to plunder Wallachia
Wallachia
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 and Transylvania in 1438. In 1440 Ali Beg participated in the siege of Belgrade where he built a wall around the city and used it to hurl stones. When Murad II
Murad II
Murad II Kodja was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1421 to 1451 ....

 died in 1451, Ali Beg was dispatched by Mehmed II
Mehmed II
Mehmed II , was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to September 1446, and later from...

 to drawn Murad's son, Küçük (Little) Ahmed Çelebi.

He was buried in the courtyard of the Gazi Evrenos mosque in Yenitsá (Larisa in Greece).
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