Alexander and Demetrios Ypsilanti
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- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Government and Politics
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Generals, Military Officers, Soldiers, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots
- Curriculum: 19th Century European History
Article abstract: In their individual ways, the Ypsilanti brothers, idealistic aristocratic Greek revolutionaries of the Byzantine Phanariote class, demonstrated the problems as well as the possibilities of the Greek movement toward national autonomy and independence.
Early Lives
In the narrow, winding alleys of Constantinople was a district that became notable as a seat of power for the Christian communities of the Ottoman Empire. This district, called the Phanar after the lighthouse that was one of its principle landmarks, formed the seat of the...
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