Citations:tchaous

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English citations of tchaous

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  • 1824, William Martin Leake, Journal of a tour in Asia Minor: with comparative remarks [] , London: J. Murray, →OCLC, page 141:
    The Pasha being absent with the army in Syria, the place was governed by a Motsellim, who furnished the travellers with a tchaous to accompany them to Constantinople, and orders for horses and other necessaries.
  • 1861, George Finlay, History of the Greek revolution, Edinburgh, London: W. Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 230:
    In the evening the grand-vizier, Benderli Ali, walked through the streets of the phanar, attended by a single tchaous.
  • 1877, George Finlay, edited by Henry Fanshawe Tozer, A history of Greece from its conquest by the Romans to the present time, B.C. 146 to A.D. 1864, new edition, revised throughout and in part re-written, volume 4, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 369:
    [] ; Michael Meizomates, amirtzaoutzes — that is, emir tchaous, or marshal of the empire; []
  • 1906 August 30, Anthimos of Moglena, “[letter to] Patriarch [Joachim III]”, in Official documents concerning the deplorable condition of affairs in Macedonia, Constantinople: at the printing press of the Patriarchate, published 1906, →OCLC, page 86:
    They came out of the village accompanied by the one of the notables of the village, named Hadji Constantinou, and by one Moslem tchaous (gendarme) who was armed.

French citations of tchaous

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  • 1827 August 29, Jean-François Champollion, “Voyage de M. Champoilion le jeune en Égypte, 1re lettre”, in Bulletin des sciences historiques, antiquités, philologie[1], volume 10, Paris: Firmin Didot, published 1828, →OCLC, page 278:
    Je l’ai exposé sommairement, et j’ai demandé les firmans nécessaires; ils m’ont été accordés sur-le-champ, avec deux tchaous du vice-roi, qui nous accompagneront partout.
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  • 1845, Maurice Alhoy, Les bagnes: historie types, mystères, illustrée edition, Paris: G. Havard, →OCLC, pages 253–254:
    Ibrahim le tchaous (exécuteur), avait regardé avec joie la proie qui lui était livrée; []
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  • 1888, Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de la Gravière, La guerre de Chypre et la bataille de Lépante, volume 1, Paris: E. Plon, →OCLC, page 102:
    Telle fut la déclaration que vint apporter au sénat de Venise un tchaous, interprète des immuables résolutions de Sélim.
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