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  • “The Pashalik of Jerusalem is already twice as thickly populated as the United States, having fifty-two souls to every square mile, and not 25 percent of them Jews; so we must be prepared either to drive out by the sword the tribes in possession as our forefathers did, or to grapple with the problem of a large alien population, mostly Mohammedan [i.e. Muslim].”

    On Ahmadinejad and Progressive Myopia 2009

  • I had not been able to see during my first tour through that country, I set out with this object, as soon as I was satisfied of the tranquil state of the Pashalik.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • Oglu has been raised to the Pashalik of Aleppo; he approached that town with a large army, and promised safe conduct to all the

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • Abdallah Pasha, who had already given apparent proofs of his zeal for the Hadj, seeing the power of the Porte daily decreasing, and knowing the terror which the Wahabi name had inspired, thought that the time was come, when, without inculpating himself, he might at last put a stop to the Hadj, and add its expenses to the revenue of the Pashalik.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • Pashalik of Damascus; but he has been permitted to keep his seat at

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • Turkish slave, and was much liked by his master, who elevated him to the first situations, in his Pashalik of Acre.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • What says the friendly Lord of London? is there aught that I can grant him within the Pashalik of

    Eothen 2003

  • Then the too usual practice was adopted of allotting the province to the highest bidder, and rich but incompetent or rascally Turks bought the reversion of the Pashalik.

    The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

  • He asked for the Pashalik of Acre in lieu of that of the Morea, which had become an empty title.

    The Egyptian Problem 1920

  • Page view page image: the abandonment of all claims to Syria, a Firman making the Pashalik of Egypt hereditary in his family and autonomous.

    The Egyptian Problem 1920

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