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Definition of Pashas
1. pasha [n] - See also: pasha
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pashas
Literary usage of Pashas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"Among the solvent forces which threatened the stability of the Ottoman empire,
however, the more or less successful efforts of ambitious pashas to take ..."
2. Syria and the Holy Land: Their Scenery and Their People. Being Incidents of by Walter Keating Kelly (1844)
"The agas are in general the sons or descendants of pashas, who have employed in
the decoration of their dwellings the treasures amassed by their fathers. ..."
3. Turkey and Its Resources: Its Municipal Organization and Free Trade; the by David Urquhart (1833)
"How have the pashas maintained their authority over the provinces ? How has the
Porte maintained its authority over the pashas ? ..."
4. Universal Geography: Or, a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1826)
"The pashas, 'distinguished in rank by the number of tails or standards which they
use, unite the military to the ci\il power, and, by an abuse st'll more ..."
5. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"... to the pashas—Their sympathy with Arabi—Their tyranny over the Fellaheen—Their
feelings towards England— The Fellaheen—The Bedouins. In the first place, ..."
6. Egypt by James Carlile McCoan, Wilfred C. Lay (1902)
"... Abbas, and Said pashas—Accession of ISMAIL, a New Epoch—Change of the
Succession—"Khedive"—International Recognition of these Changes—Conflict of ..."
7. The City of the Sultan, and Domestic Manners of the Turks: With a Steam by Pardoe (Julia) (1854)
"... which lit up the tents of the pashas. The hills were sprinkled over with
lights, the terrace at the extremity of-the palace was a wall of fire, ..."
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