 A copy of the poem was found by the British antiquarian and topographer, William Martin Leake, in 1817.In 1835 he published 4,500 lines of the "Alipashiad".The entire poem was published by the Greek historian Constantine Sathas in his volume "Historical Disquisitions" in 1870 (The Alipashiad, of the Turkalbanian Hadji Sehreti).