Kara Mahmud Bushati

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Kara Mahmud Bushati was a noble of the Bushati family in Ottoman controlled Albania near the city of Shkodër. In the 1780s he attempted to form an independent autonomous principality. By 1785 he had attacked Montenegrin land, gaining an offer of recognition of him as ruler of Albania from Austria on the condition that he would ally himself with Vienna against the Ottomans. In 1788, he beheaded the delegation from Austria instead, sending the heads to the Ottoman Sultan. He was then appointed governor of Shkodër. He was defeated in an attempt to seize land from Montenegro in 1796, resulting in his own beheading. His brother Ibrahim Bushati continued to work with the Ottoman Empire until his death in 1810.