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  • Vaucluse, Mme Fauques de (?) 'History of Two Viziers'; possibly [The Vizirs; or, the Enchanted Labyrinth]

    Chronological List 2010

  • Vaucluse, Mme Fauques de (?) 'History of Two Viziers'; possibly [The Vizirs; or, the Enchanted Labyrinth]

    Publication Date List 2010

  • Jelyaad and his Women and Viziers 899 a. The Cat and the Mouse 900

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The bridge, named after Mehmed Paša Sokolović, one of the most famous Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire, born in Višegrad in 1505, connects the two banks of the Drina River, which forms most of the border between Bosnia and Serbia.

    Bosnia & Herzegovina: New UNESCO Heritage Site; New Cross Memorial 2008

  • After all, “Sultans, Viziers, and women of Arabia or India had to express themselves as one would if living in Versailles and Marly.”

    Scheherazade Goes West Fatema Mernissi 2001

  • The trembling Viziers prostrated themselves before him.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • The Viziers trembled, as men did when Barbarossa stormed and turned upon them those terrible eyes which knew neither fear nor pity.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • June 7th, 1538, he finally triumphed over the hesitations of the Viziers and put to sea with eighty sail.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • The Viziers of Turkey spitted the noses of smokers with their own pipes; the more considerate Shah of Persia cut them entirely off.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

  • The dignity of the Fatimid age was lowered by Saladin's quartering the officers of his army in the magnificent palaces, while he occupied the house of the Viziers.

    Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

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