Andronikos Kantakouzenos, also known as Mihaloğlu Derviş, was an Ottoman Greek entrepreneur and political figure, primarily active in Wallachia and Moldavia. He was the son of Michael Kantakouzenos Şe
Murad III receiving ambassadors from the Holy Roman Empire. 1608 engraving to Salomon Schweigger's account of the visit
Banului Church, built by Kantakouzenos in Buzău
Remains of Giurgiu citadel, where Kantakouzenos was kidnapped during the negotiations of 1600
Constantin Cantacuzino was a Romanian nobleman and historian who held high offices in the Principality of Wallachia. He was a humanist scholar who drew the first local map of Wallachia in 1700, and st
Andronikos Kantakouzenos (1553–1601)
…Moldavia. Another great-grandson, Ștefan Cantacuzino, was Wallachia's last Prince of the pre-Phanariote era, executed by the Ottomans alongside his father Constantin II. From that stage on, the family survived as one of the leading components of a "national party", which fought against Greek and Phanariote influence…
Hurezi fresco of Constantin Cantacuzino on a 2000 Romanian stamp
Bust of Cantacuzino at the University of Padua, Palazzo Bo