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See also:YPSILANTI, or HYPSILANTI , the name of a See also:family of Phanariot Greeks claiming descent from the Comneni. See also:ALEXANDER YPSILANTI (1725—1805) was dragoman of the See also:Porte, and from 1774 to 1782 See also:hospodar of Wallachia, during which See also:period he See also:drew up a See also:code for the principality. He was again appointed . hospodar just before the outbreak of the See also:war with See also:Austria and See also:Russia in 1790. He allowed himself to be taken prisoner by the Austrians, and was interned at Briinn till 1792. Returning to See also:Constantinople, he See also:fell under the suspicion of the See also:sultan and was executed in 1805. His son See also:CONSTANTINE (d. 1816), who had joined in a See also:conspiracy to liberate See also:Greece and, on its See also:discovery, fled to See also:Vienna, had been pardoned by the sultan and in 1799 appointed by him hospodar of See also:Moldavia. Deposed in 1805, he escaped to St See also:Petersburg, and in 18o6, at the See also:head of some 20,000 Russians, returned to See also:Bucharest, where he set to See also:work on a fresh See also:attempt to liberate Greece. His plans were ruined by the See also:peace of See also:Tilsit; he retired to Russia, and died at See also:Kiev. He See also:left five sons, of whom two played a conspicuous See also:part in the See also:Greek war of See also:independence.
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