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26 Part I.

CHAPTER II.
The Baghdad and Basrah Pashaliks or Vilayats.

(i) Changes in the Pashaliks of Baghdad and Basrah.

91. At. 1110 early connection of tlio East Tndia Company wilh Turkish
Arabia, Basrah constituted a separate Pashalic from that, of Baghdad, and it
was from the Pasha of Basrah that Mr. French obtained a firman authorizing
the East Tndia Company to punish their own servants (see paragraph 7 of
Chapter IV, post).
92. In li 4‘J wc find tho Pashas of Basrah and Baghdad fighting against
ono another and in a letter, dated the 12th
Turkiih Arabia I'rJcii, 1GIG—1816, paragraph GG.
August 1819, the Bcsident at Basrah
reported to the Bombay Government that the Pasha of Basrah gained a great
victory over the Pasha of Baghdad.
Iu 1750 Solimau Pasha was appointed uy the Sublime Porte to the Gov­
ernment of three provinces of Basrah,
Jbul, paragraph G8.
Baghdad and Aleppo.
93. When Ali Pasha was appointed to succeed his famous fathcr-in law
^ Soliman Pasha iu 1883, in writing to the
. paragraph U7. Governor of Bombay, l.c described himself
as “ Basha of Baghdadi Basrah, Jllcrdin, Kerbuuk, etc., etc., and Lieule-
nunt-Govcrnor of Kurdistan

9di. When Soliman Pasha succeeded Ali Pasha in 1807, tho Governor of
Bombay, in ollering him his felicitations,
Ibid, paragraph 219.
describes him as Pasha of Baghdad. Pro­
bably bis extent of jurisdiction was not, liowover, less than that of his predeces-
sur.
95. When Baud Effeudi succeeded Said Pasha in 1S17. Mr. Rich ad­
dressed him his congratulations on his
Hid, paragraph* 210 and 211.
succession to the dignity of Pasha of
“ Baghdad, Basrah and Shehczour,” and Baud Pasha communicated to the
Governor of Bombay the intelligence of his having been raised to the dignity
of " JPusha of Baghdad, Basrah and Kurdistan.”
96. Baud’s successor Ali lleza Pasha in a Booyooroldi, dated 2nd Octo­
ber 1831, confirming the privileges of the
Hid, paragraph 2S1.
East India Company, describes himself as
“ Basha of Baghdad, Aleppo, Diarbekiv and Mosul.” The province of Bagh­
dad in this Booyooroldi appears to have included the province of Basrah, for
in the Imperial Eirman given by tho Porte in connection with the Chesney
Expuditiou (see Chapter X, paragraph 13, pp. 109—110, hereafter) speaks of
Ali Reza Pasha as “ Governor of Baghdad and Basrah.”
97. James B. Fraser in his u Memorandum on the present condition of
Append is e. to Turkith Araiiai Pridi the Baahalic of Baghdad" written in
(line—184.). 1834 gives the boundaries and provinoes
of the Pashalic of Baghdad as follows :—
“ The Pachalic of Baghdad extends in a direction nearly north-western and south-eastern
from Mar Iren t> the Persian Gulf, a space of about 750 miloe in length by a medium hread'h
of SOO, and its boundaries mav be thus described : a line from Mardccn drawn up through
Upper Mesopotamia or at Jazcerah (a« it is termed by the Arabs) to Kerkresia at the forma­
tion of tho Kh-thour and Euphrates separates it on the west from the Pachalics of Arfa mid
Aleppo ; again a line stretching from Mardcen to Arbeel, including Niscbuu and Jfentcl, and
thence to the Gerdain Mountains (called Korosadfieif/h by the Turks and Joodee by the Arabs)
running along their foot by Zolhab to Memb-ctee, thence again skirling the mountains of
Tour.ftan to the river Kerk/ia or ICarnsa in Keezisian, following the course of that river 10
IIameo/.a, crossing the Chianb country to Dorak and touching the sea at Gubattn will indicate
its u«»rth-easteru boundary.