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MEDJIDIE, or MEJIDIE

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 69 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MEDJIDIE, or MEJIDIE  , the name of a military and knightly order of the
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Turkish
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Empire, and also of a
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silver Turkish coin, worth twenty piastres . The coin was first struck in 1844, and the order was instituted in 1852 by the sultan Abd-ul-Mejid, whose name was therefore given to them .

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