Kyra Vassiliki

At the age of twelve she sought an audience with the local Ottoman ruler, Ali Pasha, to intercede for her father's life.

[2] Having granted her father pardon, Ali Pasha married Vassiliki in 1808 and she joined his harem.

Ali Pasha was executed there on January 22 by an Ottoman delegation, having been declared an outlaw by the Sultan.

[2] In 1830, the Greek state gave Vassiliki a medieval tower in Katochi, where she lived the rest of her life.

She is mentioned in a number of 19th-century novels, such as in Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo[9] and by English author Richard A. Davenport in his The Life of Ali Pasha of Tepeleni, Vizier of Epirus.