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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"No fear," answered Jack; "you're a great man, Mr. Mole, and no doubt the authorities, becoming aware of your merits, have really made choice of you as the governor of the pashalik."
From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Bracebridge Hemyng
Each pasha led the troops of his own pashalik, therefore inhabitants of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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
In November 1820 the veteran soldier Khurshid was appointed to the pashalik of Peloponnesos to hold the Greeks in check and close accounts with Ali.
From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Nevill Forbes
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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