Chrysavgi and the other villages ceased to be manors in 1836 after a firman from Sultan Mahmud II.
She was constructed by the naval architect Mehmet Kalfa and the naval engineer Mehmet Efendi on the order of Mahmud II (reigned between 1808–1839) at Tersane-i Amire, the Imperial Shipyard, on the Golden Horn in Constantinople.
The island was given by the Sultan Mahmud II to Muhammad Ali of Egypt as a personal fiefdom in the late 1820s, as a reward for Egyptian intervention in the War of Greek Independence (which failed to prevent the creation of the modern Greek state).
Mahmud of Ghazni | Mahmud II | Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri | Abdul Taib Mahmud | Hajji Mahmud | Sultan Mahmud | Shah Mahmud Khan | Sayyed Mahmud Khan | Order of Sultan Mahmud I of Terengganu | Mustafa Mahmud | Muhammad ibn Mahmud Amuli | Mahmud Tarzi | Mahmud Shah (Sultan of Bengal) | Mahmud Shah Durrani | Mahmud Shah | Mahmud Namık Osmanoğlu | Mahmud Khan Puladeen | Mahmud Khan I | Mahmud | Khalid Mahmud Arif | Kara Mahmud Bushati | Dolar Mahmud | Altaf Mahmud | Al Mahmud |
Krikor died in 1831 after serving the empire during the reigns of four sultans, Abdul Hamid I (1774–1787), Selim III (1789–1807), Mustafa IV (1807–1808)), and Mahmud II (1808–1839).
A new modern corps, Asakir-i Mansure-i Muhammediye ("The Victorious Soldiers of Muhammad") was established by Mahmud II to guard the Sultan and replace the Janissaries.