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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 ...
The House of Mavrokordatos (Greek: Μαυροκορδάτος), variously also Mavrocordato, Mavrocordatos, Mavrocordat, Mavrogordato or Maurogordato, is the name of a family of Phanariot Greeks originally from Chios, in which a branch rose to a princely rank and was distinguished in the history of the Ottoman Empire, Wallachia, Moldavia, and modern Greece.
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Nicholas Mavrocordatos (Greek: Νικόλαος Μαυροκορδάτος, Romanian: Nicolae Mavrocordat; May 3, 1670 – September 3, 1730) was a Greek member of the Mavrocordatos family, Grand Dragoman to the Divan (1697), [1] and consequently the first Phanariot Hospodar of the Danubian Principalities, Prince of Moldavia, and Prince of Wallachia (both on two occasions).
Thirty Greek companies were active in Moldova in 2003, while total invested Greek capital amounted to $5.3 million (October 2003). [2] In 2006, a team of researchers discovered that the oldest house in Chișinău had once been the headquarters of the Filiki Etaireia, the secret society that initiated the Greek War of Independence in 1821. [3]
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.
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
Dynastic rule is hard to ascribe, given the loose traditional definition of the ruling family (on principle, princes were chosen from any branch, including a previous monarch's bastard sons – being defined as os de domn – "of domn marrow", or as having hereghie – "heredity" (from the Latin hereditas); the institutions charged with the election, dominated by the boyars, had fluctuating ...