pashalik
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pashalik
First recorded in 1735–45; < Turkish, equivalent to paşa pasha + -lιk suffix forming nouns of condition
Example Sentences
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HILLAH, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in the pashalik of Bagdad, 60 m.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
In September 1848 Ibrahim was acknowledged by the Porte as ruler of the pashalik, but he died in the November 113 following.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" 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 Burckhardt, John Lewis
You may rest assured that there is not a province of the empire better governed than the pashalik of Silistria.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
The war with Ibrahim, to which Byron alludes, ended in his defeat, and the transference of his pashalik to Ali.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle
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