caramanly

Updated: May 1, 2025

I am assured that Yousef Bashaw never ate white sugar afterwards. The liberties which Colonel Warrington was wont to take with old Yousef Bashaw, of the Caramanly dynasty, could not now be, in these days of Ottoman politeness, at all tolerated. For a long series of years, and especially during the French war, the Colonel was the virtual Bashaw of Tripoli.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

The ancient Bey of Bengazi, an exile in Malta, and one of the Caramanly family, or of the old Moorish dynasty of Bashaws, would have replaced Asker Ali. This tyrant, like all tyrants, on receiving his recal, was unmanned, and became weaker than a child, for the performance of acts of the darkest cruelty and the most arrant cowardice, are quite compatible.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

Under the Caramanly dynasty they paid only some 850 mahboubs per annum, besides being left to the uncontrolled management of their own affairs. This intelligence has so completely astounded the few remaining merchants who have any money, that they nearly lost their senses, yesterday and to-day, being very ill, and unable to attend to their ordinary business.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846