. Fifty years of Europe, 1870-1919. THE PARTITION OF AFRICA 197 Egypt Egypt, a seat of ancient civilization, was conqueredby the Turks and became a part of the Turkish Em-pire in 1517. It remained nominally such down to1915, when Great Britain declared it annexed to theBritish Empire as a protected state. During all thattime its supreme ruler was the Sultan, who residedin Constantinople. But a series of remarkable eventsin the nineteenth century resulted in giving it a mostsingular and complicated position. To put down cer-tain opponents of the Sultan an Albanian warrior,Mehemet Ali, was sent
. Fifty years of Europe, 1870-1919. THE PARTITION OF AFRICA 197 Egypt Egypt, a seat of ancient civilization, was conqueredby the Turks and became a part of the Turkish Em-pire in 1517. It remained nominally such down to1915, when Great Britain declared it annexed to theBritish Empire as a protected state. During all thattime its supreme ruler was the Sultan, who residedin Constantinople. But a series of remarkable eventsin the nineteenth century resulted in giving it a mostsingular and complicated position. To put down cer-tain opponents of the Sultan an Albanian warrior,Mehemet Ali, was sent out early in the nineteenthcentury. Appointed by the Sultan Governor of Egyptin 1806, he had, by 1811, made himself absolute mas-ter of the country. He had succeeded only too merely the representative of the Sultan,he had become the real ruler of the land. His ambi-tions grew with his successes, and he was able togain the important concession that the right to ruleas viceroy in Egypt should be hereditary in his fam-
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