Nicholas Mavrocordatos
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Nicholas Mavrocordatos was a Greek member of the Mavrocordatos family, Grand Dragoman to the Divan, and consequently the first Phanariot Hospodar of the Danubian Principalities, Prince of Moldavia, an
Mavrocordatos being captured by Habsburg troops (1716), as imagined in an Imperial gazette of the time.
Engraving of Nicholas Mavrocordatos by Johann Georg Wolfgang, 1721
Stavropoleos Church, in an 1868 lithograph by Amadeo Preziosi
Nicholas Mavrocordatos and family, votive painting in Stavropoleos Monastery
Mihai Racoviță
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Mihai or Mihail Racoviță was a Prince of Moldavia on three occasions and Prince of Wallachia on two occasions. His rules overlapped with the accession of Phanariotes in the Danubian Principalities – h
Posthumous portrait by Theodor Aman, c. 1860–70
