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Feb. 10th, 2009 09:34 pmGeneralgouverneur von Misr would be Governor General of Egypt, where 'Misr' is an awkward romanisation of Miṣr.
It’s taken me this long to figure that out.
And obliviousness aside it then certainly looks like the heir presumptive was sent away to govern a large enough province so that he could learn to rule, eventually culminating in his being capable of ruling the entire state. Or at least that should have been the way of it if there had been a reasonable chance of Seth dying of old age. Theory then being that Seth even went as far as using the Ottoman model in training an heir which backfired spectacularly because her continued presence required that said heir remain in a continual state of adolescence, and she certainly wasn’t prepared to take on the role of Valide Sultan instead.
It’s taken me this long to figure that out.
And obliviousness aside it then certainly looks like the heir presumptive was sent away to govern a large enough province so that he could learn to rule, eventually culminating in his being capable of ruling the entire state. Or at least that should have been the way of it if there had been a reasonable chance of Seth dying of old age. Theory then being that Seth even went as far as using the Ottoman model in training an heir which backfired spectacularly because her continued presence required that said heir remain in a continual state of adolescence, and she certainly wasn’t prepared to take on the role of Valide Sultan instead.
