page_title: Greeks in Egypt
section_title: Medieval Islamic and Ottoman era
hierarchical_section_title: Greeks in Egypt / Medieval Islamic and Ottoman era
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Isma'il Raghib Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt in 1882. Français&#160;: Portrait d'Ismaïl Raghib Pacha, Premier ministre d'Egypte en 1882. العربية: اسماعيل راغب باشا ، رئيس وزراء مصر في عام 1882
context_page_description: There has been a large community of Greeks in Egypt, also known as Egyptiotes, from the Hellenistic period until the aftermath of the Egyptian revolution of 1952, when most were forced to leave.
context_section_description: Greek culture and political influence continued and perhaps reached its most influential times during the Ottoman Caliphate, which witnessed many Ottoman Sultans and Pashas of Greek ancestry rule over the Ottoman Empire in general, and Egypt in particular. Other notable Greeks in Egypt during the Ottoman period included Damat Hasan Pasha from the Morea, a governor of Egypt. Raghib Pasha, born in Greece to Greek parents, served as Prime Minister of Egypt. During the Ottoman Caliphate, Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier to Suleiman the Magnificent from 1520–1566, is perhaps the best known.
  Many Greek Muslims from Crete (often confusingly called Cretan Turks) were resettled in Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, and Syria by Sultan Abdul Hamid II after the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 that resulted in the autonomy of Crete (see the example of al-Hamidiyah, a largely Cretan Greek Muslim village in Syria).
caption: Raghib Pasha (ca. 1819–1884) was a Greek convert to Islam who served as Prime Minister of Egypt.
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