Abbas II of Egypt

Abbas II Hilmi Bey was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, ruling fromJanuary 1892 toDecember 1914. In 1914, after Turkey joined the Central Powers in World War I, the nationalist Khedive was removed by the British, then ruling Egypt, in favor of his more proBritish uncle, Hussein Kamel, marking the de jure end of Egypts fourcentury era as a province of the Ottoman Empire, which had begun in 1517.

Abbas II, the greatgreatgrandson of Muhammad Ali, was born in Alexandria, Egypt onJuly 1874. He succeeded his father, Tewfik Pasha, as Khedive of Egypt and Sudan onJanuary 1892. As a boy he visited the United Kingdom, and he had a number of British tutors in Cairo including a governess who taught him English. In a profile of Abbas II, the boys annual, Chums, gives a lengthy account of his education. His father established a small school near the Abdin Palace in Cairo where European, Arab and Turkish masters taught Abbas and his brother Mohammed Ali Tewfik. An American officer in the Egyptian army took charge of his military training. He attended school at Lausanne, Switzerland then, at the age of twelve he was sent to the Haxius School in Geneva, in preparation for his entry into the Theresianum in Vienna. In addition to Turkish, he had good conversational knowledge of English, French and German. He didnt speak Arabic.

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