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EGYPT - OTTOMAN SULTANS OF EGYPT - ABBAS II HILMI BEY

(1874-1944)

Khedive of Egypt

Seventh sovereign of the dynasty of Muhammad Ali, son of Tawfiq Pasha, he took the place of his father Ismā'ïl during the crisis of 1879, he received a Western education and became khedive in 1892. . He tried to break away from English influence by making himself popular through tax rebates and by getting closer to France, but the intervention of Lord Kromer and Kitchener led him, from 1895, to take Mustafā Fahmi as minister. pasha, support of England. From then on he made frequent trips to Europe. After Turkey entered the war, he called on the Egyptians to fight against the British occupiers. Great Britain then places Egypt under its protectorate. In 1914, at the start of the First World War, he was deposed by the British authorities for having supported the nationalist movement. Hussein Kamal succeeded him after the restoration of the Sultanate of Egypt under British protectorate. Source: Wikipedia.