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PHANARIOTES , a name derived from Phanar, the See also:chief See also:Greek See also:quarter at Stamboul, where the See also:oecumenical patriarchate is situated, and applied to those members of families See also:resident in the Phanar quarter who between the years 1711 and 1821 were appointed hospodars of the Danubian principalities; that See also:period of Moldo-Wallachian See also:history is also usually termed the Phanariote See also:epoch. It is not to be understood as marking the introduction into the principalities of the Greek See also:element, which had already established itself firmly in both provinces, to both of which Greek princes had been appointed before the 18th See also:century. But whereas the Greek families of earlier introduction gradually became merged in their See also:country of See also:adoption, the later immigrants retained their See also:separate See also:nationality and See also:grew to be powerful agents for furthering the spread of Graecism in the principalities. The See also:person raised to the princely dignity was usually the chief dragoman of the See also:Sublime See also:Porte, and was consequently well versed in contemporary politics and the statecraft of the See also:Otto-See also:man See also:government. The new See also:prince, who was compelled to See also:purchase his See also:elevation with a heavy bribe, proceeded to the country which he was selected to govern, and of the See also:language of which he was in nearly every See also:case totally ignorant, accompanied by a See also:horde of needy hangers-on; he and his acolytes counted on recouping themselves in as See also:short a See also:time as possible for their initial outlay and in laying by a sufficiency to live on after the termination of the prince's brief authority. It was the See also:interest of the Porte to See also:change the princes as often as possible, as the See also:accession donation thus became due more frequently. When, owing to the numerous cases of treachery among the princes, the choice became limited to a few families the See also:plan was See also:hit upon of frequently shifting the prince from one See also:province to the other: the prince of Wallachia, the richer of the two principalities, was always ready to pay a handsome douceur to avert his See also:transfer to Yassy; the prince of See also:Moldavia was equally ready to bribe his supporters at See also:Constantinople to secure his See also:appointment to Wallachia. To raise funds to satisfy the rapacity of the Porte the princes became past masters in the See also:art of spoliation, and the inhabitants, liable to every See also:species of tax which the ingenuity of their Greek rulers could devise, were reduced to the last See also:stage of destitution. The active See also:part taken by the Greek princes in the revolt of 1820—21 induced the Porte to revert to the appointment of native princes. End of Article: PHANARIOTESAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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