Khedive Tawfik



Khedive Mohammad Tawfik (son of Ismail Pasha) Governed Egypt from June 26, 1879 to January 7, 1892. Born in 1852 Tawfik succeeded his father Ismail as khedive of Egypt. His rule began in 1879 before conducting the bilateral inspection of Britain and France on Egypt’s financial situation. During his reign, Orabi revolution, the first revolution in modern Egypt led by Ahmed Orabi, erupted in February 1881. The British occupation to Egypt began In 1882 while Egypt took over Sudan in 1884/5. And Tawfik died in 1892.

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