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CONSTANTINE CANTEMIR

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 209 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONSTANTINE See also:CANTEMIR became a See also:prince of See also:Moldavia, 1685-1693. He was a See also:good and conscientious ruler, who protected the See also:people from the rapacity of the tax-gatherers and introduced See also:peace into his See also:country. He was succeeded on the See also:throne by his son See also:Antioch, who ruled twice, 1696-1700 and 1705-1707. His youngest See also:brother, See also:DEMETRIUS Or See also:DEMETER CANTEMIR (b. See also:October 26, 1673), was made prince of Moldavia in 171o; he ruled only one See also:year, 1710-1711, when he joined See also:Peter the See also:Great in his See also:campaign against the See also:Turks and placed Moldavia under See also:Russian See also:suzerainty. Beaten by the Turks, Cantemir emigrated to See also:Russia, where he and his See also:family finally settled. He died at See also:Kharkov in 1723. He was known as one of the greatest linguists of his See also:time, speaking and See also:writing eleven See also:languages, and being well versed in See also:Oriental scholarship. He was a voluminous and See also:original writer of great sagacity and deep penetration, and his writings range over many subjects. The best known is his See also:History of the Growth and Decay of the See also:Ottoman See also:Empire. He also wrote a history of oriental See also:music, which is no longer extant; the first See also:critical history of Moldo-See also:Walachia; the first See also:geographical, ethnographical and economic description of Moldavia, Descriptio Moldaviae, under the name of Historia Hieroglyphica, to which he furnished a See also:key, and in which the See also:principal persons are represented by animals; also the history of the two ruling houses of See also:Brancovan and See also:Cantacuzino; and a philosophical See also:treatise on the old theme of the disputation between soul and See also:body, written in See also:Greek and Rumanian under the See also:title Divanul Lumii. The latter's son, ANTIOCH CANTEMIR (See also:born in Moldavia, 1700; died in See also:Paris, 1744), became in 1731 Russian See also:minister in Great See also:Britain, and in 1736 minister plenipotentiary in Paris.

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London the Latin MS. from whence the See also:English See also:translation of his See also:father's history of the See also:Turkish empire was made by N. See also:Tindal, London, 1756, to which he added an exhaustive See also:biography and bibliography of the author (pp. 455-460). He was a Russian poet and almost the first author of satires in See also:modern Russian literature.

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