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subsequently by Isma'il Pasha of Egypt and his dynastic successors until 1914. The term entered Arabic in Egypt in the 1850s.

Etymology

This title is recorded in English since 1867, borrowed from French khédive, in turn from Ottoman Turkish ???? hidiv, from Classical Persian ???? xædiv ("lord").

Egypt in the 19th and early 20th centuries

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