Iljaz bej Mirahori

Iljaz Bej Mirahori (Turkish: İmrahorlu İlyas Bey) was an Ottoman Albanian military commander and governor, who served sultan Bayezid II.

[1] He founded the town of Korçë in Albania in the 15th century,[2] participated in the Conquest of Constantinople and built the Monastery of St John the Studite there as a mosque.

Iljaz was born in Panarit, Korçë District[3][4] and entered janissary service probably during the reign of Murad II.

He is the great-grandfather of the humble writer [i.e. Sami Frashëri] from his mother's side, and founder of the city of Korça, in the vilayet of Manastir.

When he returned to his home country, bought and immediately ruined a beautiful monastery inside his çiftlik, and in its place built a mosque, an imaret han (soup kitchen), a madrasa and some other buildings, thus laying the foundations of the city of Korça.

Of his two children, the first one Inebey (there is a mosque in the neighbourhood of Yeni Kapi connected with his name) was killed in the Bagdad front, and the other became mutevelli of the vaqf in Korça.