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Midhat Pasha
(Encyclopedia)Midhat Pasha mĭdhätˈ päshäˈ [key], 1822–83, Turkish politician. As governor of Bulgaria he succeeded within the few years of his tenure (1864–69) in raising the country from misery to relati...Mustafa Nahas Pasha
(Encyclopedia)Mustafa Nahas Pasha: see Nahas Pasha. ...Osman Nuri Pasha
(Encyclopedia)Osman Nuri Pasha ōsmänˈ no͞orēˈ päshäˈ [key], 1837–1900, Turkish general. He fought in the Crimean War of 1854–56 and in Lebanon, Crete, and Arabia in the 1860s and 70s. He was made muşi...Zaghlul Pasha, Saad
(Encyclopedia)Zaghlul Pasha, Saad säd zäglo͞olˈ päshäˈ [key], c.1850–1927, Egyptian nationalist leader, founder of the Wafd party. He suffered both arrest (1882) and exile (1919) for his attempts to end fo...Kemal Pasha, Mustafa
(Encyclopedia)Kemal Pasha, Mustafa: see Atatürk, Kemal. ...Muhammad Ali, pasha of Egypt
(Encyclopedia)Muhammad Ali, 1769?–1849, pasha of Egypt after 1805. He was a common soldier who rose to leadership by his military skill and political acumen. In 1799 he commanded a Turkish army in an unsuccessful...Cromer, Evelyn Baring, 1st earl of
(Encyclopedia)Cromer, Evelyn Baring, 1st earl of ēvˈlĭn bârˈĭng krōˈmər [key], 1841–1917, British administrator in Egypt. Appointed (1877) first British commissioner of the Egyptian public debt office, h...Abbas II
(Encyclopedia)Abbas II (Abbas Hilmi) , ăbäsˈ, ăbˈəs [key], 1874–1944, last khedive of Egypt (1892–1914); son and successor of Tewfik Pasha. Nominally he ruled in subordination to the Ottoman Empire, but i...Suli
(Encyclopedia)Suli or Souli both: so͞oˈlyē [key], small mountainous district, N Greece, in Epirus. Its inhabitants, the Suliotes, who lived in fortlike villages in the mountains, remained independent during most...Schnitzer, Eduard
(Encyclopedia)Schnitzer, Eduard: see Emin Pasha. ...Browse by Subject
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