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viziers

n. (plural of vizier English)

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He was attended by his viziers, bashaws, and guards, each of whom (says a Byzantine historian) was robust as Hercules, dexterous as Apollo, and equal in battle to any ten of the race of ordinary mortals.

Instead of listening with blind confidence to a favorite minister, he established four viziers over the four great provinces of his empire, Assyria, Media, Persia, and Bactriana.

The caliphs had been degraded by their own weakness and the tyranny of the viziers: their subjects blushed, when the descendant and successor of the prophet presented his naked hand to the rude gripe of a Latin ambassador.

His last care was the choice of two viziers, Bajazet and Ibrahim, ^75 who might guide the youth of his son Amurath.

The Grand Viziers used to send the occasional message, but I gather there has been some turmoil in recent years.