{"id":1047,"date":"2019-05-01T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royalinstitutema.eu\/?page_id=1047"},"modified":"2019-05-31T16:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:47:39","slug":"mohamed-ali-of-egypt-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/royalinstitutema.eu\/?page_id=1047","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Ali of Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-453745 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-494669 kc_col-sm-8 kc_column kc_col-sm-8\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-482693 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It can be considered as an era of rebirth, progress and independence in that Nation\u00b4s history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mohamed Ali Pasha, the founder of the dynasty of the same name was, born in 1769 in Kavala, a Macedonian seaport on the northern coast of the Aegean, in today\u2019s Greece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His forefathers originated from the village of Ili\u00e7 in Anatolia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At that time, Kavala was part of the Ottoman Empire. Mohamed Ali\u00b4s father, Ibrahim Agha, having died early, he grew up in the care of his uncle, the city\u00b4s governor.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-808566 kc_col-sm-4 kc_column kc_col-sm-4\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-724983 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-511720 kc_col-sm-4 kc_column kc_col-sm-4\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-807853 kc_col-sm-8 kc_column kc_col-sm-8\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-813742 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Young Mohamed Ali prospered in the tobacco trade and became an officer in the Ottoman Army.<br \/>It is noteworthy that Napoleon Bonaparte, who was born in the same year as Mohamed Ali, unknowingly set the stage for Mohammed Ali\u00b4s rise to power in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1798, Egypt was a province of the Ottoman empire ruled by a military caste called the Mamelukes and administered by a Pasha (governor) sent by the Sultan of Turkey. That year, Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt, destroyed the Mameluke army at the Battle of the Pyramids and occupied the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The French later departed in 1801, leaving behind a power vacuum in which Ottomans, the old Mameluke elite &amp; the Egyptian Arab nobles fought for supremacy which led the country to chaos and anarchy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was Mohamed Ali, a Turkish Officer at the head of the Albanian regiments of the Ottoman army, who had played a waiting role, to whom the Sheikhs of Cairo turned to, as the only man capable to put order in the country and elected him in 1805 as Pasha of Egypt, a decision soon after confirmed by the Sultan Selim III of Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-991344 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-716439 kc_col-sm-8 kc_column kc_col-sm-8\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-876608 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1840, he was awarded the hereditary possession of the Pashalik of Egypt by Sultan Abd\u00fcl Mecit the Ist. 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