Definition of Mehemet Ali

1. Noun. Albanian soldier in the service of Turkey who was made viceroy of Egypt and took control away from the Ottoman Empire and established Egypt as a modern state (1769-1849).

Exact synonyms: Mohammed Ali, Muhammad Ali
Generic synonyms: Soldier

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mehemet Ali

Megaric
Megarics
Megatheriidae
Megaw
Meggan
Meggie
Meghalaya
Meghan
Meghann
Megiddo
Megillah
Megleno-Romanian
Megleno-Romanians
Megrelian
Megrelians
Mehemet Ali (current term)
Meherpur District
Mehr
Mehran
Meibion Glyndwr
Meibomian
Meibomian gland
Meige's disease
Meiji
Meiji Tenno
Meiji period
Meinicke test
Meir
Meissel
Meissen

Literary usage of Mehemet Ali

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)
"Had the French Government accepted the logic of the situation, France might have been spared a serious humiliation and Mehemet Ali would have garnered at ..."

2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"It was during the French invasion that the famous Mehemet Ali, ... Mehemet AH Mehemet Ali was born in 1769 at Kavala, a little town on the Macedonian coast. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The diplomatic and military history of this period will be found sketched in the article on Mehemet Ali. Here it will suffice to say that the victorious ..."

4. Modern Europe, 1815-1899 by Walter Alison Phillips (1903)
"... Mehemet Ali AND THE PORTE Reforms of Sultan Mahmoud—Imperial designs of Mehemet Ali of Egypt— He invades Syria—Defeat of the ..."

5. Turkey by Edson Lyman Clark, Wilfred C. Lay (1898)
"Mehemet Ali, VICEROY OF EGYPT—HIS ARMY CALLED IN BY THE DIVAN—THE GREEKS ... Mehemet Ali attended this expedition, of which he was soon left in command. ..."

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