Crossword-Solution: KHEDIVES 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Open, in glass cases, are numerous inestimable Korans, which in olden times had been written fair and illuminated on parchment by pious khedives.

The quarter in which it is situated is enclosed within the walls of what was once a Roman fortress, and this fortress in its turn is surrounded by the tranquil ruins of “Old Cairo”--which is to the Cairo of the Mamelukes and the Khedives, in a small degree, what Versailles is to Paris.

The powers of the khedives steadily increased, and in 1874–75 Ismail Pasha greatly extended the Egyptian territory, annexing the Soudan as far as Darfur, and finally to the shores of the lately discovered Victoria Nyanza.

The army which the Khedives maintained in the Delta was, judged by European standards, only a rabble.

After a talk with the General, who had spent his Egyptian days in the agreeable strife with native premiers and hesitating Khedives, Dimsdale rose elated, with his mission in his hand.