EDHEM PASHA (c. 1815-1893)

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EDHEM PASHA (c. 1815-1893) , Turkish statesman, was of

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

origin, and is said to have been taken into a Turkish

household

HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

at the

time

of the Chio massacre in 1822, and to have been brought up as a Mussulman. He entered the Turkish government service and rose to high

office

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

, being successively minister of public

works

WORKS

grand

GRAND

vizier

VIZIER

for eleven months (1878),

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in
America
- AMERICA
; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

at Vienna (1879) and minister of the interior. He was

quick

QUICK

-tempered, but of kindly disposition, intelligent and patriotic, and he left a reputation of unblemished honesty and uprightness.

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