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Phanariots: see under Phanar Phanar or Fanar , Greek quarter of Constantinople (now Istanbul). Under the Ottoman Empire, Phanar was the residence of the privileged Greek families, called

Phanariots. They came into prominence in the late 17th cent.
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Phanariots 

(literally, “inhabitant of the Phanar,” a quarter of Istanbul in which the Greek patriarch resided), members of the Greek clergy and mercantile aristocracy in the Ottoman Empire during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Among the Phanar-iots were the Mavrokordatos, Ypsilantis, Suzzo, and Karagias families. The Phanariots enjoyed considerable privileges, including the right to hold such high posts as dragoman and lord in the Turkish administration. They lost their power in Walachia and Moldova as a result of the Walachian Revolt of 1821 and in Greece during the Greek War of Independence of 1821–29.



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In Mani, we are treated to a spectacular digression on two kinds of hats, the gudjaman and the ishlik, both worn by Phanariot hospodars in the Danubian principalities of the Ottoman Empire.
He frequently sprints off his path to dwell in digression, considering such subjects as Byzantine iconography, Eastern European cats, obscure supernatural deities, and my favorite, an extended discussion of Phanariot Greek headgear.
He frequently sprints off his path to dwell in digression, considering such subjects as Byzantine iconography, Eastern European cats, obscure supernatural deities, and my favorite, an extended discussion of Phanariot Greek headgear.
 
 
 
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