Aziz Vrioni

{{Short description|Albanian politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Azix Vrioni

| image = Aziz Vrioni (portret).jpg

| order = 4th Minister of Public Works

| term_start = 5 October 1914

| term_end = 27 January 1916

| predecessor = Mid'hat Frashëri

| successor = Sami Vrioni

| office2 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies in the General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire

| term_start2 = {{Start date|1908|12|23|df=yes}}

| term_end2 = {{End date|1912|1|17|df=yes}}

| 1blankname2 = Sultan

| 1namedata2 = Abdülhamid II
Mehmed V

| 2blankname2 = Grand Vizier

| 2namedata2 = Kâmil Pasha
Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha
Ibrahim Hakki Pasha
Mehmed Said Pasha

| parliamentarygroup2 =

| constituency2 = Sanjak of Avlona

| birth_date = 1859

| birth_place = Berat, Ottoman Empire (modern Albania)

| death_date = 1920

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| children = Hysen Vrioni (son)

}}

Aziz Pasha Vrioni (1859–1920) was an Ottoman-Albanian politician of the early 20th century. He was a member of the Ottoman Parliament representing Berat,{{cite book|last=Gawrych|first=George|title=The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874–1913|year=2006|location=London|publisher=IB Tauris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wPOtzk-unJgC&q=Aziz+Bey+Vrioni|isbn=9781845112875|pages=181}}{{citation| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_0-QfRL8eMC&q=Aziz+Vrioni&pg=PA125| author=Aubrey Herbert| page=125| quote=Aziz Pasha Vrioni, parliamentary deputy of Berat 1908-1912, Minister of Agriculture 1914 | title=Albania's Greatest Friend: Aubrey Herbert and the Making of Modern Albania: Diaries and Papers 1904-1923| isbn=978-1848854444| publisher=I. B. Tauris| editor= Bejtullah Destani, Jason Tomes | year=2011}} and Albanian Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture and of Mines.{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Foreign Office|title=British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914: pt. 1. The Near and Middle East on the eve of war|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w91mAAAAMAAJ|access-date=2012-05-29|year=1926|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office}}

He was born in Berat, Ottoman Empire (modern Albania), member of the influential and well-known Vrioni family.{{citation| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LRMVn7D3QVMC&q=Aziz+Vrioni&pg=PA316| page=310| author=Elisabeth Özdalga | title=Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy| series= Soas/Routledge Curzon Studies on the Middle East|publisher= Routledge|edition=1| isbn=978-0415665445| year=2011|quote=...Aziz Paşa Vrioni, important notable of Berat and Member of the local administrative council}} Aziz Pasha Vrioni got involved in the Albanian preparations in the eve of the Albanian Declaration of Independence in 1912. He carried over various ministries of the Albanian governments after.{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cb6AsVBn7rQC&q=nuzhet+vrioni&pg=PA778|page=698|title=Aux origines du nationalisme albanais : la naissance d'une nation majoritairement musulmane en Europe|author=Nathalie Clayer| location=Paris| publisher=Karthala |year=2007 |isbn= 9782845868168}}

During the turmoils of 1914 he organized his men into local militia, fighting against the Islamic Peasant Rebels and Greek insurgents.{{citation| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3_Sh3y9IMZAC&q=Aziz+Vrioni&pg=PA68 |page=68|author=Owen Pearson| title=Albania in the Twentieth Century, A History| volume=I: Albania and King Zog, 1908-39|year=2006|isbn=978-1845110130| publisher=I. B. Tauris |quote=The government forces under Aziz Pasha Vrioni were moving up from Berat in the south and forced the rebels to surrender at Kavaje, while Prenk Bib Doda was negotiating with the inhabitants of Kruje to the north.}} After failing to defend Lushnja, he was shortly arrested by the government of Turhan Pasha Përmeti, accusing him of conspiracy and collaboration with the rebels.

In October 1914, he joined the government of Essad Pasha Toptani in Durrës and was elected General Director of the Administration.