page_title: Kavala
section_title: Ottoman Era
hierarchical_section_title: Kavala / History / Ottoman Era
caption_attribution_description: English: Kavala, Mohammed Ali Haouse
context_page_description: Kavala is a city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala regional unit.
  It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos and on the Egnatia motorway, a one-and-a-half-hour drive to Thessaloniki and a forty-minute drive to Drama and Xanthi. It is also about 150 kilometers west of Alexandroupoli.
  Kavala is an important economic centre of Northern Greece, a center of commerce, tourism, fishing and oil-related activities, and formerly a thriving trade in tobacco.
context_section_description: The Ottoman Turks first captured the city in 1387. Kavala was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1387 to 1912. In the middle of the 16th century, an Aromanian converted to Islam in his late teenhood, Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier of Suleiman the Magnificent, contributed to the town's prosperity and growth by the reconstruction of the late Roman (1st - 6th century AD) aqueduct. The Ottomans also extended the Byzantine fortress on the hill of Panagia. Both landmarks are among the most recognizable symbols of the city today.
  Mehmet Ali, the founder of a dynasty that ruled Egypt, was born in Kavala in 1769. His house has been preserved as a museum.
caption: Residence of Muhammad Ali of Egypt
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