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Argyropoulos Family
The Argyropoulos family (, ), is a Phanariote family. Members of the family held significant positions within the Ottoman Empire, Kingdom of Greece, Russian Empire and the Danubian Principalities.http://www.ghyka.net/Familles/Argyropoulo/Argyropoulo.pdf Notable members * Emmanouil Argyropoulos (1889–1913), Greek aviator * Iakovos Argyropoulos (1766–1850), Dragoman of the Porte * Argiropulos Efendi (d. 1850), Ottoman Greek diplomat * Periklis Argyropoulos (1871–1953), Greek admiral and diplomat * Aspasia Manos (1896–1972), Consort of King Alexander of Greece References {{Reflist Argyropoulos family, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argyropoulos (Arghiropol) Family Coat Of Arms
Argyropoulos (), is a Greek surname, meaning "son of Argyros". The feminine form is Argyropoulou (Αργυροπούλου). Notable members * Emmanouil Argyropoulos (1889–1913), Greek aviator * John Argyropoulos (1415–1487), Byzantine Renaissance humanist * Leonidas Argyropoulos (born 1990), Greek football player * Nikos Argyropoulos (born 1978), Greek basketball player * Periklis Argyropoulos (admiral) (1871–1953), Greek admiral and diplomat See also * Argyropoulos family The Argyropoulos family (, ), is a Phanariote family. Members of the family held significant positions within the Ottoman Empire, Kingdom of Greece, Russian Empire and the Danubian Principalities.http://www.ghyka.net/Familles/Argyropoulo/Argyropoul ..., a Phanariote noble family References {{surname Greek-language surnames Surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phanariote
Phanariots, Phanariotes, or Fanariots (, , ) were members of prominent Greek families in Phanar (Φανάρι, modern ''Fener''), the chief Greek quarter of Constantinople where the Ecumenical Patriarchate is located, who traditionally occupied four important positions in the Ottoman Empire: Hospodar of Moldavia, Hospodar of Wallachia, Grand Dragoman of the Porte and Grand Dragoman of the Fleet. Despite their cosmopolitanism and often-Western education, the Phanariots were aware of their Greek ancestry and culture; according to Nicholas Mavrocordatos' ''Philotheou Parerga'', "We are a race completely Hellenic". They emerged as a class of wealthy Greek merchants (of mostly noble Byzantine descent) during the second half of the 16th century, and were influential in the administration of the Ottoman Empire's Balkan domains in the 18th century. The Phanariots usually built their houses in the Phanar quarter to be near the court of the Patriarch, who (under the Ottoman millet sys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. The empire emerged from a Anatolian beyliks, ''beylik'', or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in by the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors Ottoman wars in Europe, conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the Fall of Constantinople, conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II. With its capital at History of Istanbul#Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and control over a significant portion of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interacti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Greece
The Kingdom of Greece (, Romanization, romanized: ''Vasíleion tis Elládos'', pronounced ) was the Greece, Greek Nation state, nation-state established in 1832 and was the successor state to the First Hellenic Republic. It was internationally recognised by the Treaty of Constantinople (1832), Treaty of Constantinople, where Greece also secured its full independence from the Ottoman Empire after nearly four centuries. It remained a Kingdom until 1924, when the Second Hellenic Republic was proclaimed, and from the Republic's collapse in 1935 to its 1973 Greek republic referendum, dissolution by the Greek Junta, Regime of the Colonels in 1973. A 1974 Greek republic referendum, referendum following the Metapolitefsi, regime's collapse in 1974 confirmed the effective dissolution of the monarchy and the creation of the Third Hellenic Republic. For much of its existence, the Kingdom's main ideological goal was the Megali Idea (Greek: Μεγάλη Ιδέα, romanized: Megáli Idéa, lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the list of largest empires, third-largest empire in history, behind only the British Empire, British and Mongol Empire, Mongol empires. It also Russian colonization of North America, colonized Alaska between 1799 and 1867. The empire's 1897 census, the only one it conducted, found a population of 125.6 million with considerable ethnic, linguistic, religious, and socioeconomic diversity. From the 10th to 17th centuries, the Russians had been ruled by a noble class known as the boyars, above whom was the tsar, an absolute monarch. The groundwork of the Russian Empire was laid by Ivan III (), who greatly expanded his domain, established a centralized Russian national state, and secured inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danubian Principalities
The Danubian Principalities (, ) was a conventional name given to the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, which emerged in the early 14th century. The term was coined in the Habsburg monarchy after the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (1774) in order to designate an area on the lower Danube with a common geopolitical situation.Heppner Harald, ''Österreich und die Donaufürstentümer 1774–1812. Ein Beitrag zur habsburgischen Südosteuropapolitik'', Habilitationsschrift, Graz, 1984, pp. 8–9 The term was largely used then by foreign political circles and public opinion until the union of the two principalities in 1859. Alongside Transylvania, the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia became the basis for the Kingdom of Romania, and by extension the modern nation-state of Romania. In a wider context, the concept may also apply to the Principality of Serbia as one of ''The Principalities of the Danube'', Wikisource:The Principalities of the Danube which came under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanouil Argyropoulos
Emmanouil Argyropoulos (; 1889 – 4 April 1913) was a Greek pioneer aviator of the early 20th century. Apart from being the first Greek aviator who performed a flight over his homeland, he also became the first casualty of Greek military aviation. First flight in Greece Argyropoulos, originally a civil engineer, abandoned his profession and went to Paris in order to study aeronautics.Ελληνική Αεροπορία. Συνοπτική Ιστορία Τόμος Ι: 1908-1944. Υπηρεσία Ιστορίας Π.Α., 2000 , p. 16, 30 (Greek) At the end of January 1912, he acquired his pilot license and returned to Greece together with a privately owned Nieuport IV.G 50-hp aircraft. On 8 February 1912, Argyropoulos became the first Greek aviator to perform a flight in Greece, an event that was widely commented upon in the local press. After taking off from the Rouf district of Athens, he performed a 16-minute-long flight around the city, including an overflight of the Acropol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iakovos Argyropoulos
Iakovos Argyropoulos (; 1776–1850), known in Turkish as Yakovaki Efendi, was a Phanariote official and scholar in the service of the Ottoman Empire. Life Iakovos Argyropoulos was a member of the Argyropoulos family, which belonged to the small circle of Phanariote families that by virtue of their knowledge of foreign languages occupied key positions in the Ottoman government during the 18th century, holding the posts of Grand Dragoman and Dragoman of the Fleet. Iakovos began his career as a secretary to the Patriarch of Constantinople, before being sent to his first diplomatic mission to the Prussian court in Berlin. He then occupied the office of Dragoman of the Fleet in 1809, as well as (representative to the Ottoman government) of the island of Andros, before becoming Grand Dragoman in 1812. He served in this post until 1815, when he was ousted following the intrigues of Michael Soutzos. After the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, several high-ranking Phanario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragoman Of The Porte
The Dragoman of the Sublime Porte (Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish: ; ), Dragoman of the Imperial Council (), or simply Grand Dragoman (, ) or Chief Dragoman (), was the senior interpreter of the Imperial Council (Ottoman Empire), Ottoman government—frequently referred to as the "Sublime Porte"—and ''de facto'' deputy foreign minister. From the position's inception in 1661 until the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, the office was occupied by Phanariotes, and was one of the main pillars of Phanariote power in the Ottoman Empire. History In the Ottoman Empire, the existence of official interpreters or dragomans is attested from the early 16th century. They were part of the staff of the (), who was responsible for foreign affairs within the Imperial Council (Ottoman Empire), Imperial Council. As few Ottoman Turks ever learned European languages, from early times the majority of these men were of Christian origin—in the main Austrians, Hungarians, Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argiropulos Efendi
Argiropulos Efendi, also known as Yanko Argiropoulo, Jean Argyropoulos, or Jak Agriopulo Efendi, (?-1850), was an Ottoman Greek diplomat. Life In 1797, İsmail Ferruh Efendi was appointed to replace Yusuf Agah Efendi, and both Argiropoulo and his brother Georges were assigned as translators in his entourage. In a letter to his government, the British chargé d'affaires in Istanbul at the time, Spencer Smith, requested that support not be withheld from the Argiropoulo brothers despite their inadequate education, as they came from a respectable family. The Argiropoulo family is said to trace its origins to the Byzantine Empire, specifically the Argyros family. Their father, Manolaki (Emmanuel), was originally a physician but also served as a translator for the Navy and acted as the chief steward to his brother-in-law, Alexandru Moruzi, the Prince of Wallachia. The Argiropoulo brothers continued to serve under İsmail Ferruh Efendi until the end of his three-year mission. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Greek
Ottoman Greeks (; ) were ethnic Greeks who lived in the Ottoman Empire (1299–1922), much of which is in modern Turkey. Ottoman Greeks were Greek Orthodox Christians who belonged to the Rum Millet (''Millet-i Rum''). They were concentrated in eastern Thrace (especially in and around Constantinople), and western, central, and northeastern Anatolia (especially in Smyrna, Cappadocia, and Erzurum vilayet, respectively). There were also sizeable Greek communities elsewhere in the Ottoman Balkans, Ottoman Armenia, Ottoman Syria and the Ottoman Caucasus, including in what, between 1878 and 1917, made up the Russian Caucasus province of Kars Oblast, in which Pontic Greeks, northeastern Anatolian Greeks, and Caucasus Greeks who had collaborated with the Russian Imperial Army in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829 were settled in over 70 villages, as part of official Russian policy to re-populate with Orthodox Christians an area that was traditionally made up of Ottoman Muslim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Periklis Argyropoulos
Periklis Argyropoulos (; 1871–1953) was a Greek naval officer, politician and diplomat. Biography Born in Athens in 1871, he became a naval officer and retired with the rank of rear admiral. During the First Balkan War, he commanded the torpedo boat No. 14, and on 9 November 1912, he sunk the wooden Ottoman armed steamer ''Trabzon'' off Ayvalık. In 1917, he served in the short-lived cabinet of Alexandros Zaimis as Transport Minister, and again in the same post in 1926 under Athanasios Eftaxias. During the Metaxas Regime, he was appointed ambassador to Spain. He died in 1953. He was also the maternal uncle to Aspasia Manos, the wife of King Alexander of Greece Alexander (, romanized: ''Aléxandros''; 1 August 189325 October 1920) was King of Greece from 11 June 1917 until his death on 25 October 1920. The second son of King Constantine I, Alexander was born in the summer palace of Tatoi on .... 1871 births 1953 deaths Politicians from Athens Greek MPs 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
