pashalate

plural pashalates · alternative obsolete pachalate · alternative obsolete pachalat

1. rareThe jurisdiction or territory of a pasha.

   The pashalate, or pashalik, of Damascus is the most important of the five into which Syria is divided.

   1920, The American Catholic Quarterly Review, page 548

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   For Paſha’s as ſoon as the Prime Vizir has put on their robe, immediately go home, and next day receive the Patents of their Paſhalate, with the Standard call’d Sanjak.

   1734, The History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire, page 189

   And the consequence of it all is that the Emperor of Morocco is much in the position of a Turkish Pasha in Asia Minor: nearly absolute master on a precarious lease of power, he has rivals and rebels always plotting his fall, and formidable desert hordes perpetually devastating his pashalate.

   1874 December 4, The Pall Mall Budget, page 367

   When Mohammad Ali died in 1849 after a year of insanity, his evil nephew, Abbas, succeeded the regency that ruled the pashalate, and drove Said into exile.

   1971, The Panama Affair, page 11

   Synonyms: pashalik