Khedive
/kɪˈdiːv
/noun
The title of the viceroy of Egypt under Turkish rule 1867–1914.The Cataract was opened in 1899 in a ceremony attended by Abbas Helmy, the Khedive of Egypt, as well as by British dignitaries such as a son of Queen Victoria, Winston Churchill and Lord and Lady Cromer....
- Part of the Ottoman Empire from 1517, it became practically autonomous under the rule of the Khedives during the nineteenth century.
- Disraeli's purchase of the shares of the Khedive of Egypt in the Suez Canal Company was a further blow to the French, who had not forgotten that Great Britain had displaced French power in Canada and India in the eighteenth century.
Derivatives
Khedival
- It stands opposite the grand mosque of Sultan Hasan as an attempt of the Khedival family to measure up to the achievements of the Mamluks.
- Instead, the work that opened the new Khedival opera house in Cairo on November 1, 1869, was Verdi's earlier opera Rigoletto.
- Mitchell has written on the use of urban planning to create new hierarchies of power under Khedival rule in the nineteenth century and then under direct British colonial administration.
Khedivial
- In English, the piece is known as the Khedivial hymn.
- The Khedivial Opera House was the first on the African continent to perform world famous operas and symphonic masterpieces.
- Contrary to popular belief, the opera was not written to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, nor that of the Khedivial Opera House in the same year.
Origin
Via French from Ottoman Turkish ḵediv, from Persian ḵadiw 'prince' (variant of ḵudaiw 'minor god', from ḵudā 'god').