Original sentence: 1770 in Istanbul – 26 October 1822 in Corinth) was an Ottoman statesman and military leader.His father Damat Melek Mehmed Paşa, son of İzmirli Süleyman Paşa, was the Silahdar Agha of Sultan Selim III, after having commanded an Albanian regiment in Egypt against Napoleon.In 1820 he was Pasha of Thessaly at Larissa and participated in the army of Hursid Pasha that was operating against the rebel Ali Pasha of Yannina.Mahmud Pasha was born in 1770 in Istanbul,  He came from a distinguished family, because his maternal grandfather was Sultan Ahmed III by his mother, Zeynep Sultan
Edited sentence: 1770 in Istanbul – 26 October 1822 in Corinth) was an Albanian Ottoman statesman and military leader.His father Damat Melek Mehmed Paşa, son of the Albanian İzmirli Süleyman Paşa, was the Silahdar Agha of Sultan Selim III, after having commanded an Albanian regiment in Egypt against Napoleon.In 1821 he was Pasha of Thessaly at Larissa ( region was still under the control of the Albanian Ali Pasha of  Yannia or Ali Pasha Tepelena) and participated in the army of Hursid Pasha that was operating against the rebel Ali Pasha of Yannina.Mahmud Pasha was born in 1770 in Istanbul,  He came from a distinguished Albanian  family, because his maternal grandfather was Sultan Ahmed III by his mother, Zeynep Sultan