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  AHMED TEWFLK PASHA - LoveToKnow Article on AHMED TEWFLK PASHA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
AHMED I. (1589-1617), sultan of Turkey, was the son of Mahommed III., whom he succeeded in 1603, being the first Ottoman sultan who reached the throne before attaining his majority.
Ahmed gave himself up to pleasure during the remainder of his reign, which ended in 1617, and demoralization and corruption became as general throughout the public service as indiscipline in the ranks of the army.
In the treaty which Russia was compelled to sign Turkey obtained the restitution of Azov, the destruction of the forts built by Russia and the undertaking that the tsar should abstain from future interference in the affairs of the Poles or the Cossacks.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AH/AHMED_TEWFLK_PASHA.htm   (1307 words)

  
 18th
The reign of Sultan Ahmed III was marked by relative political stability in the capital and by extensive reforms--some of them influenced by European models--implemented during the "Tulip Period" (Lale Devri, 1718-30) by Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha.
In Baghdad, Hasan Pasha (1704-24), the Ottoman governor of Georgian origin sent from Istanbul, and his son Ahmed Pasha (1724-47) established a Georgian Mamluk (slave) household, through which they exercised authority and administered the province.
Hasan Pasha made himself indispensable to the Ottoman government by curbing the unruly tribes and regularly remitting tribute to the treasury in Istanbul, and Ahmed Pasha played a crucial role in defending Iraq against yet another Iranian military threat.
www.angelfire.com /nt/Gilgamesh/18th.html   (758 words)

  
 Mehmet Ali's seizure of power - Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The pasha opened fire from the artillery of his palace on the insurgent soldiers who had taken the house of the defterdar, which was across the Ezbekia from the palace.
Ahmed Pasha, who was in the region to become a governor of one of the Arabian provinces was quickly appointed pasha by the Ottomen, through the influence of the Turks and the favor of the sheiks.
Ahmed Pasha betook himself to the mosque of al-Zflhir, which the French had converted into a fortress.
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 Ahmed Maher Pasha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Pasha Grishuk and Evgeny Platov Webpage gives information on Pasha and her former partners.
Pasha Grishuk Official Infopage This is the official Infopage of ice-dance Champion Pasha Oksana Grishuk - the only ice-dancer who has twice won Olympic Gold
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 TARHUNCU AHMED PASHA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tarhuncu Ahmed Pasha was raised in the palace and became the secretary of Egypt Governor Musa Pasha and then Hezapare Ahmed Pasha.
Tarhuncu Ahmed Pasha was appointed as the grand vizier by influence of Judge Hocazade Mesut Efendi.
Ahmed Pasha imposed new taxes to recompense the expenses of the Kyrete Campaign (1652) and he prepared a budget to improve the empire’s economy.
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 Mehmet Ali's seizure of power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ahmed Pasha who was in the region become a governor of one of the provinces was quickly appointed pasha by the through the influence of the Turks and favor of the sheiks.
The Albanians seized Ali Pasha's boats conveying servants and his ammunition and baggage; and him they demanded why he brought with so numerous a body of men in to usage and to their previous warning.
They very reluctantly raised the siege Damanhur being in daily expectation of the of an English army; and at the of Shubra-ment he was attacked by a illness and died on January 30 1807 at the age of fifty-five.
www.freeglossary.com /Mehmet_Ali's_seizure_of_power   (3811 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ahmed Vefik Pasha
Ahmed Vefik Pasha (1819-1891), statesman of the Ottoman Empire, born in Constantinople (now İstanbul in Turkey) and educated in Paris.
Son of Ismail Pasha, Fuad was born in Cairo and originally named Ahmed Fuad...
This stimulated a new reform era called the Tulip Period (1715-1730), in which the Ottoman army was reorganized and modernized in order to spare the...
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 Encyclopedia: Ahmed Pasha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A court-martial was again held upon him, and he was condemned to death; but the emperor commuted the sentence to one years imprisonment and banishment.
He was made a pasha, and appointed to organize and command the artillery.
Pasha is the diminutive form of the Russian given name Pavel.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ahmed-Pasha   (1010 words)

  
 History of Ottoman Egypt
The pasha was ordered either to hand over the executioners to vengeance or to resign his place; as he refused to do the former he was compelled to do the latter, and presently a rescript came from Constantinople, approving the conduct of the army and appointing one Khalil Pasha as Musas successor.
Among the pashas reasons for wishing to Sudan extend his rule southward were the desire to capture the valuable caravan trade then going towards the Red Sea, and to secure the rich gold mines which he believed to exist in Sennr.
As the result of endless discussions between the representatives of the powers, the Porte and the pasha, the convention of Kutaya was signed on May 14, 1833, by which the sultan agreed to bestow on Mehemet Ali the pashaliks of Syria, Damascus, Aleppo and Itcheli, together with the district of Adana.
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 The Ottoman Empire in the Seventeenth Century
Ahmed did indeed die in 1617, when his eldest son (Osman) was still only thirteen, and the imbecilic, paranoid Mustafa ruled for three months before being unceremoniously deposed in favor of Osman.
Fazil Ahmed (Grand Vizier 1661-76) was a moderate, fair, and able administrator, who curbed corruption and restored the Empire to solvency.
Kara Mustafa Pasha, the next Grand Vizier launched the fateful attack on Vienna that led to the rout of Turkish forces in Europe and his own execution (December 1683).
history.wisc.edu /sommerville/351/ottomans.htm   (888 words)

  
 News Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shishmanov cites examples like grand vizir Hafiz Ahmed pasha (the first half of the 17th c), who is described in Ottoman documents as "a pomak, born in Plovdiv".
Dimiter Shishmanov quotes Ottoman and Turkish historians as saying in the biography of another grand vizir, Calafat Mehmed pasha (the second half of the 18th c), that he is Bulgarian by origin, born in a village near Sofia and taken as janissary.
Ahmed Djevdet pasha, an islamized Bulgarian from Lovech, was many times minister of education and of justice.
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 Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ahmed Jaff was notably both a Pasha and a talented Poet who also spoke English, French and Farsi.
I've seen a photo of the Pasha at her house- He's in the most splendid Kurdish costume, sporting a magnificent headband with all the silk trimmings, and of course a mighty Khenjar in his luxurious band.
Ahmed Mokhtar Beg is one the most prominent poets of the Kurdish literature.
www.kdp.pp.se /Jalal.htm   (1105 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Features | Straight down the line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ali Pasha Sherif shared Abbas I's passion, and like him was particularly fond of greys; such foals begin life with a coat of misty copper, but slowly lose the darker hairs until at about four or five years old they are pure white.
Ali Pasha Sherif gave horses away liberally but, although he was cordial to Lady Anne, he was loath to sell horses to foreigners and she was able to buy very few.
Ali Pasha Sherif's great-great- granddaughter Gulsun Sherif is a former amateur jockey and has a lifelong interest in the horse and its bloodlines.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/717/feature.htm   (3290 words)

  
 Appendix III - Municipal Council Representation
Mahmood Pasha was very pleased with me and indicated that only a few Muslims from Sri Lanka would embark on he pilgrimage on account f he majority of them being poor, especially in external affairs and manners.
Ahmed Arabi Pasha gave me some letters to be delivered to his family in Egypt ad I had to conceal them inside my pillowcase for fear of being found out by the British authorities who had exiled him.
We then visited the palace of Ahmed Pasha Samy to see his children (Pasha was in Colombo at that time).
www.rootsweb.com /~lkawgw/slm-ismail.htm   (4755 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816
I guess that on such occasions the consuls had to "kiss" the Pasha's cloak or even the floor in front of His Highness, and most probably they were obliged to accompany that act of reverence with the offering of costly presents.
On the right side of the seal there are four small lines of script, written by the same hand that wrote the names of the goods and the figures at the top of the page, and the two lines under the seal, but a hand other than that which wrote the three lines of text.
The seal imprinted on this "note" is illegible; it is, however, the seal of Hassan Pasha, Dey of Algiers, and the same as the topmost of those which follow Article 12 of the treaty, where the imprint is clearer.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796e.htm   (2167 words)

  
 GEDIK AHMED PASHA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ahmed Pasha joined the campaign, resulted with the conquest of Egriboz in following year.
He was freed by the reconciliation of Hersekzade Ahmed and he was appointed to be the Kaptan-i Derya (Commander of the Navy).
Ahmed Pasha was freed, after the rebellion of Kapikulu Corps (Guards of Yeniceri Corps).
www.osmanli700.gen.tr /english/individuals/g4.html   (347 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Chronicles | Commemorating Ibn Khaldun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ahmed Zaki Pasha's drive to commission a statue for Ibn Khaldun led to a month-long celebration of the mediaeval scholar on the pages of Al-Ahram in May 1932.
Ahmed Zaki, dubbed the Sheikh of Arabism, took the occasion to remind those who responded to his appeal that they would not have to look far for information on Ibn Khaldun and even an image of the great scholar.
Ahmed Zaki's article stirred the concerns of many Al-Ahram readers some of whom wrote in with their comments and reservations.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/653/chrncls.htm   (2709 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Chronicles | Man of the desert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1921 and 1923 the Egyptian explorer Ahmed Mohamed Hassanein was the first to chart the famous Libyan desert and discover the two lost oases, Kufra and Al-'Uwaynat.
Ahmed Mohamed Hassanein was born in Bulaq in 1889.
His father, Mohamed Hassanein had served as professor at Al-Azhar and his grandfather, Ahmed Pasha Mazhar Hassanein, was the last of the Egyptian naval commanders before the British occupation.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/494/chrncls.htm   (3289 words)

  
 1676-83. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kara Mustafa Pasha, brother-in-law of his predecessor, Kopruluzade Fazil Ahmed Pasha, served as grand vezir.
A large army led by Kara Mustafa Pasha assaulted the walls of the Habsburg capital but met with a staunch defense and was forced to retreat after the arrival of Polish reinforcements led by John Sobieski.
Kopruluzade Fazil Mustafa Pasha, younger brother of Fazil Ahmed Pasha, was appointed grand vezir.
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 NameTraq | Last Name: Pasha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1997, Dr Hafiz Pasha announced the 5th NFC award that was supposed to conclude in 2002, but the military government has to extend it due to its inability to...
The governor of the province where Kut is located, Ni'mat Sultan Pasha, resigned from his position with the CPA as the result of the unemployment riots.
Junior Pasha Majdi, communications coordinator, said he is looking into the possibility of holding a keg party on the main quad.
www.nametraq.org /Jan04/P/Pasha.shtml   (2328 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Ahmed Izzet Pasha
Ahmed Izzet Pasha (1864-1937) served as both a field commander and Grand Vizier in the Ottoman Empire during World War One.
Experienced as a military campaigner Izzet's political moderation endeared him to new Sultan Mehmed VI on the latter's ascension to the throne on 3 July 1918.
It was Izzet who negotiated the Ottoman armistice with the British at Mudros (having first released the interned British General Townshend for the purpose) on 30 October 1918.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/izzet.htm   (199 words)

  
 essee 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On the state level, when Melek Ahmed Pasha is asked to take the office of the grand vizier he says that the expenditures of the state have mounted to 47 000 purses a year.
Also as Melek Ahmed Pasha made his move against the khan of Bitlis he and his staff receives "so many gifts that they were all rich, and they joyously thanked God that they would not have to go to campaign after all".
Melek Ahmed Pasha is deeply offended as he is offered the province of Van as it is a poor province.
www.helsinki.fi /~ljtainio/opiskelu/evliya.htm   (1432 words)

  
 TRIBAL SOURCES OF AL KHAMSA FOUNDATION HORSES:
If this pedigree is correct, there was apparently an error in recording the color of at least one of the three horses involved, since according to current genetic theory a grey horse must have at least one grey parent.
ranslations of the Abbas Pasha Manuscript referring to the history of the Sudan family of the Saqlawi-Jidran are shown by Sherif and Forbis (in The Abbas Pasha Manuscript, pp.
Lady Anne Blunt: Journals and Correspondence, on 3/9/1904 at Prince Ahmed's stables, describes Sabbah (unnamed) as a grey Mu'niqi-Sbaili stallion, his dam the Mu'niqiyah-Sbailiyah "brought from Arabia to the Tihawis (the Tahawi tribe in Egypt) from whom Ahmed Pasha took her.
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 Rasheed Rachid of Egypt Family Tree Reunion Project
Descendants of Ahmed Pasha Rasheed        رشيد باشا احمد احفاد
One of Ahmed Pasha Rasheed’s many jobs was Minister of Finance and Public Works.
Ahmed Pasha Rasheed’s story goes back to the days of the Mamelouk era in the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire of Turkey that occupied Greece, Albania and Egypt.
ahmed-pasha-rasheed.org   (591 words)

  
 CEZZAR AHMED PASHA
Ahmed, who came to Istanbul in his youth and worked as a barber, was under the protection and service of Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha.
Ahmed, who lived among Kölemens for years, found the opportunity to learn the fighting methods and lifestyles of Kölemens.
Napoleon decided that he did not have any chance other than defeating Cezzar Ahmed Pasha in the first occasion to be able to keep his existence in Egypt.
www.ozturkler.com /data_english/0004/0004_30.htm   (735 words)

  
 GARDEN CITY : A Retrospective PART II, August 20, 1998
It was probably from his home at No. 9 Ahmed Pasha Street, directly across from the former German legation, that the British commanding officer, Major-General Julian H. Byng supervised the sequestration of all German and Austro-Hungarian properties in Egypt.
This latter name-change was motivated less by the presence of the Brazilian Legation (before it moved out of Mahmoud Fakhry Pasha's mansion; today Banque du Caire et de Paris) than by the desire to pique the then-unpopular British and American embassies which have far greater frontage on the street.
Medhat Yegen Pasha's palace was disposed of by his daughter Tawhida Yegen in 1949-50 prior to her permanent relocation at Massachusetts Avenue, Washington D.C. after her divorce from Prince Abbas Halim.
www.egy.com /landmarks/98-08-20.shtml   (1071 words)

  
 ahmed3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ahmed had been born while his mother was on campaign with his father, Mehmed IV.
Two years later, the Russians were forced to accept Ottoman dictated peace terms, which called for the return of Azov to the Turks, the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Poland and the Crimea, and the restoration of Charles XII as Sweden's monarch.
With the help of his grand vizier, Damad Ibrahim Pasha, Ahmed set out a vast program of modernization and reform, popularly known as the Tulip Period (this would serve as a precursor to the reforms of Selim III and his successors).
www.stfrancis.edu /hi/ahmed3.html   (496 words)

  
 CEZZAR AHMED PASHA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cezzar Ahmed Pasha, continuing his defense preparations, put in order his weapons and forces.
Sources say that Cezzar Ahmed Pasha was a very smart, resistant, and understanding person and was skillful in finding out many problems before they arose.
Cezzar Ahmed Pasha, who is famous because of his efforts and service could not be kept in Europe and laid his hands on North Africa, assaulted on Asia, competed with Napoleon in Akka defense and upset that proud commander.
www.ozturkler.com /data_english/0004/0004_30_2.htm   (610 words)

  
 datadubai.com: The Arabian horse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Abbas Pasha of Egypt, prior to 1855 obtained SAMHA and ZOBEYNI, both of the Saqlawi Jedran strain of Ibn Subeyni of the Mhayd-Fid'an.
Abbas Pasha of Egypt got GHAZIA and SUEYD, both Saqlawi Jedrans of Ibn Sudan and WADIHAH, a Shuwayman Sabbah from the Ruala tribe sometime prior to 1855, while Prince Ahmed Pasha Kemel acquired MAANAGIA HADRAGIA, a Muniqi Hadruj, in 1885.
She was acquired from Feysul Ibn Turki As-Sa'ud (grandfather of the first king of Saudi Arabia), who had obtained her from Muhammed Ibn Al Khalifa, who may have bred her or obtained her from the Atayban tribe.
www.datadubai.com /horse5.htm   (1503 words)

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