Egypt Eyalet: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

When Muhammad Ali Pasha, an Albanian military commander of the Ottoman army in Egypt, seized power in 1805, Egypt became de facto an independent country, nominally still bound to the Ottoman Empire. The Eyalet was able to expand into Sudan and nearby territories iin the middle of the XIX century. Constantinople granted Egypt the status of an autonomous vassal state or Khedivate in 1867. It was a precursor of modern-day Egypt.