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See also:MAVROCORDATO, MAVROCORDAT Or MAVROGORDATO, the name of a See also:family of Phanariot Greeks, distinguished in the See also:history of See also:Turkey, See also:Rumania and See also:modern See also:Greece. The family was founded by a See also:merchant of See also:Chios, whose son See also:Alexander Mavrocordato (c. 1636–1709), a See also:doctor of See also:philosophy and See also:medicine of See also:Bologna, became dragoman to the See also:sultan in 1673, and was much employed in negotiations with See also:Austria. It was he who See also:drew up the treaty of See also:Karlowitz (1699). He became a secretary of See also:state, and was created a See also:count of the See also:Holy See also:Roman See also:Empire. His authority, with that of Hussein Kupruli and Rami See also:Pasha, was supreme at the See also:court of Mustapha II., and he didmuch to ameliorate the See also:condition of the Christians in Turkey. He was disgraced in 1703, but was recalled to court by Sultan Ahmed III. He See also:left some See also:historical, grammatical, &c. See also:treatises of little value.
His son See also:NICHOLAS MAVROCORDATO (1670–1730) was See also:grand dragoman to the See also:Divan (1697), and in 1708 was appointed See also:hospodar (See also:prince) of See also:Moldavia. Deposed, owing to the sultan's suspicions, in favour of See also:Demetrius Cantacuzene, he was restored in 1711, and soon afterwards became hospodar of See also:Walachia. In 1716 he was deposed by the Austrians, but was restored after the See also:peace of Passarowitz. He was the first See also:Greek set to See also:rule the Danubian principalities, and was responsible for establishing the See also:system which for a See also:hundred years was to make the name of Greek hateful to the Rumanians. He introduced Greek See also:manners, the Greek See also:language and Greek See also:costume, and set up a splendid court on the See also:Byzantine See also:model. For the See also:rest he was a See also:man of enlightenment, founded See also:libraries and was himself the author of a curious See also:work entitled IIepi KaOiiKOVTwv (See also:Bucharest, 1719). He was succeeded as grand dragoman (1709) by his son See also:John (Ioannes), who was for a See also:short while hospodar of Moldavia, and died in 1720.
Nicholas Mavrocordato was succeeded as prince of Walachia in 1730 by his son See also:Constantine. He was deprived in the same See also:year, but again ruled the principality from 1735 to 1741 and from 1744 to 1748; he was prince of Moldavia from 1741 to 1744 and from 1748 to 1749. His rule was distinguished by numerous tentative reforms in the fiscal and administrative systems. He was wounded and taken prisoner in the affair of Galati during the Russo-See also:Turkish See also:War, on the 5th of See also:November 1769, and died in captivity.
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