Mehedintsi
Rumania, a departmental unit of administration in the W. part of the country, lying between the Banat and Transylvania, bounded on the S. by the Danube river. Pop., mixed Rumanian and Magyar, about 250,000. Area, 1,910 square miles. The chief center is Turnu-Severin. MEHEMET ALI (mã'he-met ä'lē), Viceroy of Egypt; born in Kavala, Macedonia, in 1769. He entered the Turkish army, and served in Egypt against the French; rose rapidly in military and political importance; became Pasha of Cairo, Alexandria, and subsequently of that the European powers had to interfere and compel him to sign a treaty in 1839, which gave him the hereditary pashalic of Egypt in lieu of Syria, Candia, and Hejaz. In his latter days he sank into dotage. He died in Cairo, Egypt, Aug. 2, 1849.