Phanariot

Many of their prominent members having studied statecraft, before the time of the Revolution, as Christian officials in the employment of Turkey, to whom the name Phanariot was given from the Christian quarter of Constantinople, the whole party acquired the name of Phanariot.

The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald 1873

The alliance of this parvenu 'Phanariot' aristocracy with the conservative

The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906

For instance, the Sultan would often select a (Greek) Phanariot as the 'Despot' of significant provinces such as Blachia and Moldova. back

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

One was the Phanariot aristocracy,9 which was motivated by the lively French cultural orientation of their milieu.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

The women of the Greek Enlightenment found their model of female virtue in Madame Anne Therese de Lambert's Avis d'une mére á sa fille (Advice from a mother to her daughter), translated into Greek by Princess Rallou Soutzou in 1819, and uniformly echoed by Phanariot ladies.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

An ardent patriot, Païsii recalls the glories of the Bulgarian tsars and saints, rebukes his fellow-countrymen for allowing themselves to be called Greeks, and denounces the arbitrary proceedings of the Phanariot prelates.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Ottoman conquest literature disappeared; the manuscripts became the food of moths and worms, or fell a prey to the fanaticism of the Phanariot clergy.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

The Phanariot clergy -- unscrupulous, rapacious and corrupt -- succeeded in monopolizing the higher ecclesiastical appointments and filled the parishes with Greek priests, whose schools, in which Greek was exclusively taught, were the only means of instruction open to the population.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Balkans has restored very friendly feeling between the free Greeks and their Phanariot brothers.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

After a long line of Phanariot patriarchs, the Arabs at last succeeded in getting an Arab patriarch, Meletios, in 1899.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913