» For the HMS Khedive, see USS Cordova. Khedive (derived from the Persian word for Lord and largely equivalent to the European title Viceroy) was first used (without official recognition) by Muhammad Ali Pasha (Turkish: Kavalalı Mehmet Ali Paşa, who was originally from the Ottoman city of Kavala in present-day Greece and was of mixed Albanian and Turkish descent), the Ottoman Vali (Governor) of Egypt and Sudan. The initially self-declared title of Khedive (Turkish: Hıdiv) was of… (More on Khedive)