Aristeidis Moraitinis (; 1806–1875) was born in
Smyrna
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,
Ottoman Empire
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(now
İzmir
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,
Turkey
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). He was educated in France. During the reign of
King Otto, Moraitinis was a staunch member of the
French Party. He served as the 15th
Prime Minister of Greece
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The officeholder's of ...
for a few days in February 1863 during the period between the
coup d'état
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, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to powe ...
against King Otto and the arrival of the new
Danish-born Prince William, who would be known in Greece as
King George I. Moraitinis was made Prime Minister a second time for a little over a month in 1868. He died in
Athens
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1875.
References
* John A. Petropulos; ''Politics and Statecraft in the Kingdom of Greece''; Princeton University Press, 1968.
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1806 births
1875 deaths
19th-century prime ministers of Greece
19th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
Smyrniote Greeks
Speakers of the Hellenic Parliament
Russian Party politicians