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Definition of Phanariot

Phanariot
Phanariot Pha*nar"i*ot, n. Also Phanariote Pha*nar"i*ote [NGr. ?, fr. Phanar. See Phanar.] One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage.

Meaning of Phanariot from wikipedia

- Phanariots, Phanariotes, or Fanariots (Gr****: Φαναριώτες, Romanian: Fanarioți, Turkish: Fenerliler) were members of prominent Gr**** families in Phanar...
- Mavrogordato or Maurogordato; Gr****: Μαυροκορδάτος) is the name of a family of Phanariot Gr****s originally from Chios, a branch of which was distinguished in the...
- from the Phanar district of Istanbul to rule Moldova and Wallachia. The Phanariot princes pursued oppressive fiscal policies and dissolved the army. The...
- the Holy Roman Empire and in its feudal successor regimes). During the Phanariot régime, there were also boyars who had no land at all, but only a function...
- 1828) was a Gr**** nationalist politician who was member of a prominent Phanariot Gr**** family, a prince of the Danubian Prin****lities, a senior officer...
- establish an independent Gr**** State. Society members were mainly young Phanariot Gr****s from Constantinople and the Russian Empire, local political and...
- Anatolian Gr****s, Tsakonians, Maniots, Karagounides, Mikrasiates [el], Phanariots, Egyptian Gr****s, Caucasus Gr****s, Cretan Muslims, Sfakians, Slavophone...
- century. As chancellery and cultural language, especially during the Phanariot period of time. Moldavia at britannica.com Protectorate at britannica...
- the Ottoman Empire. Gr**** diaspora into Europe begins. Ottoman settlements in Greece. Phanariot Gr****s occupy high posts in Eastern European millets....
- the more prominent leaders of the merchants and a "Westerniser" was the Phanariot Alexandros Mavrokordatos who was living with the poet Percy Bysshe S****ey...