Phanariote

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Etymology

From Greek Φαναριώτης (Fanariótis).

Noun

Phanariote (plural Phanariotes)

  1. (now historical) An inhabitant of Phanar, the historically Greek district of Constantinople; hence, a member of the Greek official class in the Ottoman Empire. [from 19th c.]
    • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 17:
      For a little over a hundred years, from 1711 until the outbreak of the Greek Revolution in 1821, with only brief interruptions during times of war, Moldavia and Wallachia would be ruled yb a succession of Phanariot princes.

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Adjective

Phanariote (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to these people or to the Phanar. [from 19th c.]

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