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Definition of Aghas
1. agha [n] - See also: agha
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aghas
Literary usage of Aghas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Wandering Scholar in the Levant by David George Hogarth (1896)
"... on the Plains—A garden of earth—Ottoman officialism—The rule of the aghas—Born
bargainers—State of the peasantry—Peoples in youth and age—The Sick Man. ..."
2. Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus by Claude Delaval Cobham (1908)
"When the aghas learned the game they made every kind of promise that if they
would release them, and let them go quietly to their houses before their ..."
3. Cyprus Under the Turks, 1571-1878: A Record Based on the Archives of the by Harry C. Luke, Sir Harry Charles Joseph Luke (1921)
"When night came they broke into the houses of the aghas first, caught them and
bound them on the spot, and hurried them off as prisoners to their khan, ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"The interior aghas were the grand officers of the palace, the kapu agha (chief
of the white eunuchs), ..."
5. Armenia, the Armenians, and the Treaties by Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns (1891)
"The Bey and the aghas were supported by the local authority. ... declared the
claims of Ishak Bey and the other Mussulman aghas to be unfounded. ..."
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