Mahmud Xhelaledini was a 20th century Albanian

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 politician who worked for the Ottoman Empire

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Born in Gjirokastër

Gjirokastër

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 in 1870, Xhelaledin had studied in Thessaloniki

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. After undergoing the Ottoman school of public administration there, he became kaymakam

Kaymakam

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 of Gjilan in the vilayet of Kosovo in the 1901-1903 period. During 1904-1912 he instead had different posts at the Thessaloniki vilayet.