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Phanariots, Phanariotes, or Fanariots (Greek: Φαναριώτες, Romanian: Fanarioți, Turkish: Fenerliler) were members of prominent Greek families in Phanar [1] (Φανάρι, modern Fener), [2] the chief Greek quarter of Constantinople where the Ecumenical Patriarchate is located, who traditionally occupied four important positions in the ...
Coat of arms of Princes Callimachi [1]. The House of Callimachi, Calimachi, or Kallimachi (Greek: Καλλιμάχη, Russian: Каллимаки, Turkish: Kalimakizade; originally Calmașul or Călmașu), was a Phanariote family of mixed Moldavian and Greek origins, whose members occupied many important positions in Moldavia, Romania and the Ottoman Empire.
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Michael Drakos Soutzos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Δράκος Σούτζος; Romanian: Mihai Draco Suțu; 1730 – 1803) was a Prince of Moldavia between 1792 and 1795. A member of the Soutzos family of Phanariotes (descended from the Drakos family), he was the grandfather of Michael Soutzos, himself a ruler of Moldavia between 1819 and 1821.
The House of Ghica [or Ghika] (Romanian: Ghica; Albanian: Gjika}; Greek: Γκίκας, Gikas) was an Albanian noble family whose members held significant positions in Wallachia, Moldavia and later in the Kingdom of Romania, between the early 17th century and late 19th century.
The Wallachian stage of the Greek War of Independence consumed itself in a conflict between the initially supportive Anti-Ottoman Revolt led by Tudor Vladimirescu and the Philikí Etaireía, while Moldavia was under Greek occupation for a limited duration. The outcome only served to stir up animosity, and the Ottomans were receptive to the ...
Roxani was born in 1783, [1] which made her slightly older than her future husband. [2] She descended not just from the Caradjas, but also from other major Phanariote clans of the Ottoman realm; her paternal grandmother Sultana was a Mavrocordatos—making Roxani the great-granddaughter of John II Mavrocordatos, who was Moldavia's Prince in the 1740s, [3] as well as a distant descendant of pre ...
The family, whose members given the title of Imperial Count by Leopold I in 1699 later became Hospodars of Wallachia and Moldavia, was founded by the merchant Nikolaos Mavrokordatos (1522–1570) from the island of Chios.