Muhammad Ali Pasha, Wali · Founder of modern Egypt

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RulerWali · Founder of modern Egypt

Muhammad Ali Pashaمحمد علي باشا

Cairo

An Ottoman officer from Albania who seized Egypt and remade it as a modern state.

He wiped out the Mamluk beys in the Citadel in 1811 and for the sultan crushed the first Saudi state, taking Diriyah in 1818. He built factories, schools and an army, and nearly toppled the Ottomans himself. His family ruled Egypt until 1952.

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