[34] By a curious irony of events, at the time these lines were written
by the great English statesman, Egypt was governed by an Armenian Prime
Minister, Nubar Pasha, while the victorious Russian Army in the Caucasus
was under the command of the Armenian General Loris Melikoff, the victor
of Kars, who later became Minister of the Interior and one of the most
trusted advisers of the Czar Liberator. It is interesting to note that
Egypt had an Armenian Prime Minister during the reign of the Khalif
Al-Mustansir (1036-94) by the name of Badr-el-Gamali (probably a
variation of Bedros Gamalian), "who governed wisely and well for twenty
years (1073-94)."--_See_ ADRIAN FORTESCUE: _The Lesser Eastern
Churches_, p. 237.
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