page_title: Vaso Pasha
section_title: Governor of Lebanon
hierarchical_section_title: Vaso Pasha / Biography / Governor of Lebanon
caption_attribution_description: Wasa Bacha, Mutassarif Jabal Loubnan [1880s]
context_page_description: Vaso Pasha, also known as Pashko Vasa or Wassa Pasha, was an Ottoman Albanian writer, poet and publicist of the Albanian National Awakening, and mutasarrif of Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate from 1882 until his death.
context_section_description: Sultan Abdulhamid II appointed Vasa as Mutessarıf of Mount Lebanon on June 18, 1882, a post reserved by international treaty for a Catholic of Ottoman nationality after the civil unrest and French occupation of 1860. While in Lebanon as governor, Vasa continued his work for Albanianism by publishing books on Albania in French and other publications on the Albanian language. In his post as Mutassarıf, he was initially more willing to accept French consular authority, but over his nine years in office, he came to distrust both the French Consul and the Maronite Clergy, who closely guarded their privileges. This earned him accusations of corruption, in association with his son-in-law and deputy Kupelyan Effendi.  Nevertheless, he remained in office until his death in Beirut after a long illness on June 29, 1892.
  In 1978, the centenary of the League of Prizren, his remains were transferred from the Lebanon back to a modest grave in Shkodra.
caption: Photo from the 1880s
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