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WAZIR, or VIZIER (Arabic wazir)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 435 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WAZIR, or
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VIZIER (Arabic wazir)
  , a minister, usually the
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principal minister under a
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Mahommedan ruler . In India the
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nawab of Oudh was long known as the nawab wazir, the title of minister to the Mogul emperor having become hereditary in the
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family .

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Wazir is also a tribe of pathans living on both sides of the Daverend Line, but densly populated in Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan (FATA).
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