The beginning of a settled Albanian community in Syria begins in the early 19th century. During that era Albanians served in other capacities like Sinan Pasha from Topojan who for a time was a governor in the area. The incorporation of Syria into the Ottoman Empire brought Janissary soldiers to urban centres of Syria such as Damascus, of which Albanians recruited from the Balkans in the seventeenth century were a noticeable presence alongside other Ottoman troops from different ethnicities. The Dukaginzade would become one of the principal families of Aleppo in the Ottoman era
Al-Adiliyah Mosque in Aleppo was commissioned in the 16th century by Dukaginzade Mehmed Pasha, son of Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha.
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