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Princeps D.D. Ioannes Nicolaus Alexandri Mavrocordato se Scarlati celsiis Atq. Nicholas Mavrocordato (* 3 May 1670, Constantinople - † 3 September 1730, Bucharest) (Nicolae Mavrocordat in Romanian) was grand dragoman to the Divan (1697), and in 1708 was appointed hospodar - prince of Moldavia. Deposed, owing to the sultan's suspicions, in favor of Dimitrie Cantacuzino, he was restored in 1711, and soon afterwards became hospodar of Walachia. In 1716 he was deposed by the Austrians, but was restored after the Peace of Passarowitz following which the country lost the western part - Oltenia to Austria. He was the first Greek set to rule the Danubian principalities, and was responsible for establishing the system which for a hundred years was to make the name of Greek hateful to the Romanians. He introduced Greek manners, the Greek language and Greek costume, and set up a splendid court on the Byzantine model. For the rest he was a man of enlightenment, founded libraries and was himself the author of a curious work entitled Ilepi Kad-riKovruv (Bucharest, 1719). He was succeeded as grand dragoman (1709) by his son John Mavrocordato (Ioan), who was for a short while hospodar of Moldavia, and died in 1720. Nicholas Mavrocordato was succeeded as prince of Walachia in 1730 by his son Constantine Mavrocordato who would rule Wallachia 6 times and Moldavia 5 times until 1769.
References This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication in the public domain.
See also Preceded by: Ioan Buhuş
Preceded by: Ioan Mavrocordat Preceded by: Ştefan Cantacuzino
Preceded by: Ioan Mavrocordat
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