Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A title of dignity formerly borne by the vassal princes of Moldavia and Wallachia, in earlier times by the princes of Lithuania and the kings of Poland, and still used as a title (gosudar) of the Czar of Russia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Rumania.
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- noun A title borne by the
governors ofMoldavia andWallachia .
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Examples
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Powers at Paris, in 1858, a kind of agreement, which, whilst it insisted upon the retention in each Principality of a separate prince or hospodar, gave to each an elective parliament, and admitted of a partial fusion, under a kind of central commission, for the 'united
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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New officers of State were appointed in the supposed interests of the Porte, but, as we shall see presently, the ruling prince, or, as the reader will find him called, voivode or hospodar, managed to turn these changes to account and make them serve for his own aggrandisement.
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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The new hospodar was always appointed by the Porte with great ceremony.
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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His name first appears conspicuously about the year 1826, when, in conjunction with Constantine Golesco, a returned exile and friend of the unfortunate Vladimiresco, and with the concurrence and support of the reigning hospodar, Gregory Ghika, he endeavoured to revive the national language, which had been displaced by Greek in consequence of the long-continued Phanariote rule.
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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They were seized by order of the hospodar, Michael Stourdza, and sent into confinement, but most of them escaped and returned to reorganise the revolt.
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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There sits a relation of a hospodar, drinking Russian tea; he pours into a large cup a small glass of brandy, throws in a slice of lemon, fills up with hot tea.
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Ypsilanti joined with the reigning hospodar to drive the Turks out of that principality.
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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The new hospodar, who had paid pretty dearly for his post, submitted to all this homage, accepted everything, and then acted as it seemed most politic, often punishing and exiling those who had stooped the lowest or bribed the highest.
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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The first act, however, of Alexander Ghika, the new hospodar of Wallachia, was to forbid any change of statute without the consent of Russia.
The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) John Knight Fotheringham 1867
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Russia merely reserved to herself the appointment of the first hospodar of each principality.
The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) John Knight Fotheringham 1867
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