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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 ...
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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.
Mihai Racoviță (c. 1660–1744), Prince of Moldavia and Wallachia; Constantin Racoviță (1699–1764), Prince of Moldavia and Wallachia; Ștefan Racoviță (1713–1782), Prince of Wallachia; Nicolae Gr. Racoviță (1835–1894), Romanian politician; Emil Racoviță (1868–1947), Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer
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.
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.
Main menu. Main menu. move to sidebar hide. Navigation Main page ... writer, poet, engineer, and politician (Great Logothete of Moldavia) Ecaterina Cocuța Conachi ...