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Ismail Pasha

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Is·ma·il Pa·sha  (s-mäl päsh) 1830-1895.
Egyptian viceroy (1863-1879). The Suez Canal was completed during his reign (1869).

Ismail Pasha [ˌɪzmɑːˈiːl ˈpɑːʃə]
n
(Biographies / Ismail Pasha (1830-1895) M, Egyptian, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) 1830-95, viceroy (1863-66) and khedive (1867-79) of Egypt, who brought his country close to bankruptcy. He was forced to submit to Anglo-French financial control (1876) and to abdicate (1879)


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However, external debts forced Ismail Pasha to sell Egypt's share to the United Kingdom.
His name was Khedive Ismail Pasha and he was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Egypt.
Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, commissioned Verdi to write it for performance in January 1871, paying him 150,000 francs, but the premiere was delayed because of the Franco-Prussian War.
 
 
 
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