pashalik
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pashalik
First recorded in 1735–45; < Turkish, equivalent to paşa pasha + -lιk suffix forming nouns of condition
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Mahmud hired the father's troops and the son's generalship for the re-conquest of Peloponnesos, under engagement to invest Ibrahim with the pashalik as soon as he should effectively make it his own.
From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Nevill Forbes
A map showing the boundaries of Egypt accompanied the firman granting Mehemet Ali the pashalik, a duplicate copy being retained by the Porte.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
Roused by his cries, the military and body guard of the pashalik rushed in, and the whole house was in an uproar.
From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Bracebridge Hemyng
Khair-ed-Din Barbarossa captured the city in 1520 and annexed it to his Algerian pashalik.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
To the pashalik of Aleppo belongs the government of Aintab, Badjazze, Alexandretta, and Antakia.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt
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