See also:

• MEDJIDIE, or MEJIDIE

MEDJIDIE, or MEJIDIE  , the name of a military and knightly See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of the See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire, and also of a See also:

• SILVER

silver Turkish See also:

• COIN
• COIN (older forms of the word are coyne, quoin and coign, all derived through the O. Fr. coing, and cuigne from Lat. cuneus, a wedge)

coin, See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth twenty piastres . The coin was first struck in 1844, and the order was instituted in 1852 by the See also:

• SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

sultan Abd-ul-Mejid, whose name was therefore given to them .