Joseph Russegger
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Joseph Ritter von Russegger was an Austrian geologist who was a native of Salzburg.
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Muhammad Ali of Egypt
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Muhammad Ali was the Ottoman viceroy and governor of Albanian origin, who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule
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…Africa, the Middle East and Asia Minor. On the expedition, he was accompanied by botanist Theodor Kotschy (1813-1866). In Egypt, at the request of Viceroy Mohammed Ali (1769-1849), he carried out geognostic and geological investigations of the country. In Sudan he explored its mineral resources that included searches…
Portrait by Auguste Couder, 1840
Muhammad Ali's house in Kavala, now in northeastern Greece.
Massacre of the Mamelukes by Horace Vernet, 1819. The painting depicts the 1811 massacre of Mamelukes at the Citadel of Cairo in 1811
Muhammad Ali by Jean-François Portaels, 1847