Word: turko
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History. Not during 6,000 years of history had Egypt claimed suzerainty over the Sudan until the year 1820 when Mehemet Ali, "barbarian of genius," and Sultan Mahmud II of Turkey succeeded in conquering the country. But even this victory was only nominal; for the Turko-Egyptians were never able to assert complete mastery over the country which they contemptuously called Bilad-es-Sudan, "country of the blacks." In 1882 came the revolt of the Mahdi, "Guide of Islam," aimed specifically at the Egyptians whose corrupt practices were thoroughly despised. The regime of the Mahdi was later replaced by that...
...Scrutiny of a British communication on Iraq in which the Turko-British disagreement is likely to figure...
Ismet Pasha and Joseph G. Grew, U. S. Observer, settled the Turko-American Agreement. The U. S. A. receives all the privileges of the Straits Convention (regulation of shipping on the Bosphorus) without signing it. Mutually satisfactory set-were made of the questions of taxation on U. S. companies, protection of Christian minorities, damages to Americans during...
...Turkey to receive Karagach (junction suburb of Adrianople, across the river Maritza) and the railway line from Luli Gurgas, on the Bulgarian Frontier, to Karagach. This means shifting the Turko-Greek boundary in Thrace further west...