Mehemet Ali
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noun
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Another Albanian, Mehemet Ali, conquered Egypt, and it took the combined efforts of Britain, France and Czarist Russia to keep him out of Europe by sinking his fleet in 1827.
From Time Magazine Archive
Abbas Ali and Mehemet Ali were inside it, and I was reading Ben Hur aloud.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
In the reign of Abbas, who succeeded Mehemet Ali, the Egyptian troops were driven from Nejd, and the Wahhabi state recovered its independence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
Magnificent columns of Egyptian alabaster presented by Mehemet Ali, Viceroy of Egypt, support the baldacchino over the high altar.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe
This rich Mohammedan temple was the work of Mehemet Ali, the founder of the present dynasty.
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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