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 Alexander Ypsilantis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Ypsilantis (1725-1805), Prince of Wallachia from 1775 to 1782, and again from 1796 to 1797, and also Prince of Moldavia from 1786 to 1788.
Alexander Ypsilantis (1792-1828), Greek military commander and national hero, grandson of the above.
This human name article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
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 Greece - MSN Encarta
Alexandros Ypsilantis, a Greek general in the service of Russian emperor Alexander I, accepted leadership of the society.
Early in 1821 Ypsilantis launched an attack from Russian territory into Moldavia, then part of the Ottoman Empire.
The powers offered the throne to Prince William of the Danish Glücksburg dynasty; he was crowned King George I in 1863.
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 Alexander Ypsilantis
Alexander Ypsilantis, Ypsilanti, or Alexandros Ypsilantis, (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης *, Romanian: Alexandru Ipsilanti) was a Greek military commander and national hero.
The eldest son of Constantine Ypsilantis, Alexander accompanied his father in 1805 to St Petersburg, and in 1809 received a commission in the cavalry of the Imperial Guard.
Ypsilantis was kept in close confinement for seven years, and when released at the instance of the emperor Nicholas I of Russia, retired to Vienna, where he died in extreme poverty and misery on January 31, 1828.
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 Greek War of Independence
The Philiki Etairia had given the leadership of the revolution to Prince Alexandros Ypsilantis, a Greek Phanariote from the Danubian provinces who had become a general in the Russian army and aide-all-camp to the Tsar.
Early in March 1821, it was decided for Alexander Ypsilantis with 4500 volunteers, Greek officers and 700 Greek students assembled at Jassy in Moldavia, near the Russian border, to begin the insurrection against the Ottoman rule starting in the Danubian principalities.
When the revolt under Alexander Ypsilantis became known in Constantinople and spies reported the unrest in the Peloponnese, the Sultan ordered the arrest of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Gregory V as the ethnic leader of the Greeks, capturing as well two metropolitans and twelve bishops and the leading Phanariotes.
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 Greek Spider - Your guide to Greece and Cyprus!
His father Constantine Ypsilantis was a prince in the region of Vlachia, but was forced to abdicate his position in the year 1805 by the Ottoman Turks.
Alexandros eagerly took on the role of leader of the "Friendly Society" and asked a reprieve of service from the Tsar of Russia.
Alexandros Ypsilantis and was chosen by him to lead the uprising in the Greek mainland against the Ottoman Empire.
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 Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Queen Victoria took the throne at the age of 18 in 1837 and reigned until 1901.
She married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and visited Germany upon six occasions.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Modern-Day Greece Formed By Historic Struggles by linda j. wilson
The revolt began in March 1821 when Alexandros Ypsilantis, the leader of the Etairists, crossed the Prut River into Turkish-held Moldavia with a small force of troops.
Ypsilantis was soon defeated by the Turks, but in the meantime, on Mar. 25, 1821, (the traditional date of Greek independence), sporadic revolts against Turkish rule had broken out in the Peloponnese, in Greece north of the Gulf of Corinth, and on several islands.
It demanded the reorganization of the army and the navy, the dismissal of the princes from any military command and the cleaning up of political life.
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 History of Greece:The Revolution to the 20th Century
In 1821 the land that was Greece is controlled by the Turks except for the Ionian islands which has been occupied by the Venetians, then the French and in 1815 by the British.
The rebellion of the Greeks actually begins in Moldavia when an army of 4500 Hellenes lead by General Alexander Ypsilantis, a Phanariot from so-named district of Istanbul, a member of the Philike Hetairia (Friendly Society), invades hoping to encouage the local Romanian peasants to throw off the yoke of the Turks.
In 1898 Crete is granted autonomy and Prince George, the 2nd son of the King is appointed governor.
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 chronos
Princess Victoria is born to Edward, the Duke of Kent, and Princes Victoria of Saxe-Coburg.
Alexandros Ypsilantis, a Greek patriot, attacks the forces of the Turkish Sultan in the province of Moldava in March, initiating the eleven-year revolution of the Greeks against the Turks.
Prince Albert is officially designated "Prince Consort," a late and begrudging admission of his marriage to Victoria in 1840.
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 Index Man-Maz
Their first child, Crown Prince Frederik, was born on May 26, 1968, and a second son, Prince Joachim, on June 7, 1969.
The deaths of Pedro in 1786 and of her eldest son José and daughter Mariana in 1788, combined with news of the excesses of the French Revolution, so affected her that she suffered a mental collapse in January 1792.
The fury of the people was intensified by a telegram which she sent to the Kaiser in 1915, congratulating him on his victories, and by her ready assent to her sister Antoinette's marriage to Crown Prince Rupert of Bavaria.
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 History of Aeghio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Afterwards the conquest of the bigger part of Peloponnese William was nominated Prince of Achaia.
After the capture of Constantinople from Turks (1453 a.C.), the despot of Moreas Thomas Paleologos, capitulated, after he delivered to Mohamed 2nd Patras, Vostitsa, and Calavrita, and was compelled to pay tax.
The culture of eminent "grape Vostitsa" and Tetragkatho began, and the exploitation of salt marshes as well, and is developed international trade, while the Friendly Company finds rich ground.
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 Mani - History - 1821 to present
The letter and its appeal, apparently, was never sent and, on the evidence of Russian indifference to the vainglorious Greek revolts in the Danubian basin under Ypsilantis, would, anyway, have fallen on deaf ears.
The general uprising of the Peloponnesian Greeks meant within a few months over 20,000 Muslims (mostly ethnic Greeks who had converted) were systematically obliterated from the Peloponnese, their villages and mosques raised to the ground, their wells poisoned and blocked and, by and large, they themselves massacred in their thousands.
These included the paying of taxes and, from the Maniate point of view, the equally outrageous notion that the tower houses should be pulled down.
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 History of Jihad against the Greeks (1450 -1853)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
All through the long struggle to win independence, the Greeks had to pay a very heavy price with blood and tears to make this possible.
When it seemed that Europe would fall prey to the Muslim barbarians who were baying for the blood of all Christians, the Greeks, along with the Serbs, Croats, Romanians, Hungarians, Austrians, Poles, Russians, Bulgars, fought and finally reversed the tide of the Muslim invasion of Europe.
They were regarded as state protégés (dhimmis) and had to pay a special poll tax (jizya) for that protection and as a sign of their inferior status.
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 Key figures in the Greek Revolution 1821-1829 [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
Ypsilantis and his soldiers withdrew to the Carpathian mountains and dug themselves in at Dragatsani waiting for the Ottoman Turks to arrive.
The Greek national hero Paulos Melas was born in 1870, and completed his university in 1891 at the University of Athens graduating to the military position of sub lieutenant of Artillery.
Although prominent armatoles and prelates from Macedonia (Yeorgakis Olympios; Ioannis Farmakis; Chrysanthos, the metropolitan of Serres) had been initiated prior to 1820 into the activities of the 'Philiki Etaireia', preparations for the revolution were nonetheless inadequate in the region, particularly in western Macedonia.
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 UNIFORM INSIGNIA :: View topic - Greek Armed Forces History
The Crown Prince Constantinos, undertook the position of commander-in-chiefs on March 15, causing enthusiasm and rekindling the agitation for liberation.
After the defeat of Prince Guillaume Villardouin in 1259 near Pelagonia, the three Peloponnesian castles of Mystras, Mani and Monemvassia passed to a new ruler, Byzantine Emperor Ioannis Palaeologus.
The agreement was achieved with Carolo II Gonzalo, prince of Navarre who dreamed of restoring the Byzantine state and proclaimed himself an ancestor of the Paleologs.
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 HISTORY OF THE BALKANS FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The whole of Patzinakia is divided into eight provinces with the same number of great princes.
At the time at which the Pechenegs were expelled from their country, their princes were, in the province of Irtim, Baitzas; in Tzour, Konel; in Gyla, Kourkoutai; in Koulpei, Ipaos; in Charaboi, Kaidoum; in the province of Talmat, Kostas; in Chopon, Giazis; in the province of Tzopon, Batas."
In 1389 the Serbs fight the Turks in the First Battle of Kosovo, in which the Serb ruler, Prince Lazar is defeated.
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 ART / 4 / 2DAY
He apparently painted a significant portion of his oeuvre to pay debts, which extended over many years and even led to his imprisonment.
Nonetheless, not only did he fail to break the spirit of the surviving part of the Russian forces, he did not either intimidate the Russian people, who at that very time, after Borodino and after the demise of Moscow, intensified their furious resistance.
— Ho Alexandros Ypselantes dierkhetai tou Proutho (450x325pix, 43kb) _ The Greek War of Independence began on 06 March 1821 when Alexandros Ypsilantis [1792 –; 31 Jan 1828], the leader of the Philikí Etaireía conspiracy, crossed the Prut River into Turkish-held Moldavia with a small force of troops.
www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4jul/art0729.html   (11129 words)

  
 History of the Balkans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Augustus claimed them as tributary allies but the Daci paid little heed, and Domitian, after inconclusive campaigns against them, was forced (A.D. 90) to pay them tribute to keep them quiet.
Although the First Macedonian War (215–205 B.C.) ended favorably for Philip, he was decisively defeated in the Second Macedonian War (200–197 B.C.), was forced to give up most of his fleet and pay a large indemnity, and was confined to Macedonia proper.
By collaborating with the Romans, however, he was able to reduce the indemnity.
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 UNIFORM INSIGNIA :: View topic - Greek Armed Forces History
The first serious attempt to form a cavalry unit, is the one organized by Alexandros Ypsilantis in Phoxane of Moldavia (back then, Russian Bessarabia), in early March 1821.
Dimitrios Ypsilantis, arrives in secrecy to Greece from Bessarabia in June 1821, carrying muscets for 300 men and fl clothing uniforms.
The losses of the Sacred Company during the 3 years of its combat operations, accounted 113 men, dead or injured.
forum.uniforminsignia.net /viewtopic.php?t=2941   (7330 words)

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