Ali Pasha's power exposed Ottoman imperial weakness

Ali Pasha combined interest in modern ideas with a violent effort to secure his own power in Ottoman Greece. One interpretation of his growing brutality is that early efforts to impose authority became a habit, then a reputation that required ever greater reprisals. He opposed Ottoman military reforms, was declared a rebel in 1820, and was killed in 1822 after moving toward a state of his own. His defeat demonstrated the Ottoman government's ability to suppress a powerful provincial ruler. His earlier rise also exposed its failure to prevent a governor from accumulating that degree of independent power.