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Nasir Pasha al-Sa'dun
Nasir Pasha al-Sa'dun was a sheikh of the Sa'dun family, rulers of the Muntafiq tribal confederation of southern Iraq. Under the Ottoman reforms of the governor Midhat Pasha around 1870 he accepted office as the first governor of the new Muntafiq sanjak and founded the town of Nasiriyah, named after him, as its capital, turning the sheikhs into landlords and officials.
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