Word: amir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proud young Amir of Afghanistan is the despot of a mountain realm rising like a sword between British India and Asiatic Russia. He divides one from the other, defies both. Last week the Amir Amanullah (literally "The Sovereign Lord 'Peace of God' ") set foot upon European soil at Naples, sped by specal train to Rome, began an extensive tour of the Occident...
Romans awaited the Amir in a city decked with the bright, Italian tricolor: red, white, green. Came the chuffing special from Naples, bearing the sombre banner of Afghanistan: black, but worked in silver with the arms of the Amir. Soon Amanullah, the "Peace of God," descended majestically from his salon...
...smouldered down to a truce of exhaustion. The great hinterlands of Mongolia and Tibet continue slumbrous under the rule of local chieftains and priestly cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen there subject to Britain, France, Italy and Spain are quiet; and the ancient Ethiopian realm of Abyssinia abides prosperously under Empress Waizeru Zauditu and her great...
President Doumergue and French officials, numberless, bustled to welcome Mulai Yusef, Sultan of Morocco, Amir-el-Mumenin (Prince of True Believers). Soon that portly sovereign was installed in the magnificent residence of Baroness Roger, lent for his accommodation...
...Assumed by the early princes of Afghanistan, Sind and Bokhara with a significance roughly equivalent to "Sultan" ; elsewhere in the East equivalent to "Commander," "Lord" (in the British sense) or simply "chieftain." The Occidental "Admiral" was derived or corrupted from the Oriental "Amir," "Emir," "Ameer...