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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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
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 Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
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
Ali was denounced as a traitor, and ordered to surrender his pashalik.
From The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I by H. R. Fox (Henry Richard Fox) Bourne
Ibrahim was to retain the pashalik of Syria for his life, and Russia stipulated that no vessels of war should be allowed to pass the Dardanelles or Hellespont without the consent of the sultan.
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Latimer
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