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Khedive

[ UK /kˈɛdɪv/ ]
NOUN
  1. one of the Turkish viceroys who ruled Egypt between 1867 and 1914

How To Use Khedive In A Sentence

  • It was French culture and French institutions which the Khedives had tried to adopt.
  • Khedive and the Sultan as his suzerain, which is exactly the position taken up by Lord Salisbury in his despatch of September 9, 1898. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
  • Part of the Ottoman Empire from 1517, it became practically autonomous under the rule of the Khedives during the nineteenth century.
  • That project came to naught in 1869, when Bartholdi's small sculptural models were rejected by the Egyptian khedive, Ismael Pasha, already up to his viceroyal ears in debt. Liberty as Statue and Symbol
  • This train was only built for the use of Khedive, Saiid Pasha.
  • In 1875 Disraeli bought the Khedive's large holding in the shares of the company which ran the canal.
  • Now soldiers without number, gladly risking death, had deserted from the army of the Khedive; they had bought themselves out with enormous backsheesh, they had been thieves, murderers, panderers, that they might be freed from service by some corrupt pasha or bimbashi; but no one in the knowledge of the world had ever been expelled from the army of the Khedive. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • Further inside is the white marble tomb of Bambah Qadin, and behind this the tomb of Khedive Tawfik.
  • Outside the main stage, however, in the forestage areas on both sides, set designer Ulfat Gouda placed two mini realistic sets, facing each other, one representing a corner of an ornate sitting room in a gorgeous palace, alternately occupied by the Khedive and Shawqi, and the other, part of a drab living room in a humble home, alternately occupied by Hafiz and the modern historian. Al-Ahram Weekly Online
  • Disraeli's purchase of the shares of the Khedive of Egypt in the Suez Canal Company was a further blow to the French, who had not forgotten that Great Britain had displaced French power in Canada and India in the eighteenth century.
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