pashalik

[puh-shah-lik, -shaw-]

noun

the territory governed by a pasha.

Also pachalic, pa·sha·lic.

Origin of pashalik

1735–45; < Turkish, equivalent to paşa pasha + -lιk suffix of appurtenance

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Historical Examples of pashalik

Roused by his cries, the military and body guard of the pashalik rushed in, and the whole house was in an uproar.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks
Bracebridge Hemyng
Khair-ed-Din Barbarossa captured the city in 1520 and annexed it to his Algerian pashalik.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1
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You may rest assured that there is not a province of the empire better governed than the pashalik of Silistria.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846
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British Dictionary definitions for pashalik

pashalik

pashalic

noun

the province or jurisdiction of a pasha

Word Origin for pashalik

C18: from Turkish

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