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BEY (a
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modern Turk. word, the older
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form being beg, cf. Pers. baig)  , the
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administrator of a
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district, now generally an honorific
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title throughout the
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Turkish
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empire; the granting of this in
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Egypt is made by the
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sultan of
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Turkey through the
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khedive . In
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Tunis "
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bey has become the hereditary title of the reigning sovereigns (see
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TUNISIA) .

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