The Benizelos family (Greek: Μπενιζέλοι) was a Greek aristocratic family from Athens. The family was mentioned in the Venetian sources as among the oldest, richest and most powerful families in Athens during the Ottoman era. Descendants of the family distinguished themselves throughout the period of Ottoman rule as elders (proestoi), notaries and men of letters, teachers and also, played a significant role in the Greek War of Independence of 1821.[1]
The Benizelosfamily (Greek: Μπενιζέλοι) was a Greek aristocratic family from Athens. The family was mentioned in the Venetian sources as among the oldest...
illustrious and wealthy Benizelosfamily. Her parents were Angelos Benizelos and Syrigi Palaiologina, both from old Byzantine families. They had no children...
that period, Plaka was also the home of the Greek aristocratic Benizelosfamily, the family that Saint Philothei came from. In the mid-17th century, out...
Benizelos Roufos (Greek: Μπενιζέλος Ρούφος; 1795–1868) was a Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece. Roufos was born in Patras in 1795, a scion...
decorated with frescoes, dating from the Ottoman period. The wealthy Benizelosfamily subsidized the frescoes, painted in 1682 by Ioannis Ypatos, from the...
Venizelos and 3 more brothers. His grandfather probably was Hatzipetros Benizelos, a merchant from Kythira. Eleftherios was born in Mournies, near Chania...
Studies at Athens". www.ascsa.edu.gr. Retrieved 2024-04-18. "The BenizelosFamily", The Benizelos Mansion Museum Francis R. Walton, "Joannes Gennadius: 1844–1932"...
where he worked for the Greek cotton industrialist Horemi, and into whose family he married. He had six children, among whom were the writer Penelope Delta...
He was born in Patras in 1760. His father was Benizelos Roufos (elder), who belonged to a wealthy family of Sicilian descent, that had settled in Patras...
became Minister for Naval Affairs three times, for three days in the Benizelos Roufos government (just before the outbreak of the Iouniana of 1864, where...
Ioannis Benizelos wrote an account of the city's affairs in the 1770s, Athens was once again enjoying some prosperity, so that, according to Benizelos, it...
He was born in about 1852 in Patras to Benizelos Roufos, the scion of a well-established local political family. He was elected three times to the Greek...
sisters, Alexandra and Dagmar, married into the British and Russian royal families. Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Alexander III of Russia were his...
a member of the Filiki Eteria and the scion of a distinguished Epirote family. He studied law in Paris and became involved with commerce at an early age...
between 2014 and 2019. Avramopoulos was born in Athens in 1953, into a family which had originally come from Ilia and Elliniko in Arcadia. He served his...
masters of Modern Greek prose. Yiannis Makriyiannis was born to a poor family at the village of Avoriti, in Phocis. "Makriyiannis" (Long Yiannis) was...
resistance fighters from Gestapo persecution. The Ebert family is of Bavarian origin, one of the families that settled in Athens during the reign of King Otto...
introduced as ball-masquee' events in 1835 by the Italian origin merchant family of Moretti. Patras was chosen by the European Commission to be the European...
family originates from Chania, Crete, and has a long tradition in the politics of Greece. Besides her father and herself, other members of the family...
century. He was born in Ermioni, Argolida, in 1856 to a prominent and wealthy family that had taken part in the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s. He was...
1809, to a family that hailed from Kythira and the Mani Peninsula. Following the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, his family left the...
written by contemporaries: the journals of the Athenian scholar Ioannis Benizelos, and the memoirs of Panagiotis Skouzes. They are complemented by the reports...
and a grandson of Benizelos Roufos, a Prime Minister of Greece and Mayor of Patras, he is descended from the Rouphos-Kanakaris families with many generations...
was the son of Benizelos Roufos, a Prime Minister of Greece and Mayor of Patras, he is descended from the Rouphos-Kanakaris families with many generations...
October 1917) was a Greek politician and served as the mayor of Patras. His family hailed from Paramythia in Thesprotia, Epirus. He was the son of Athanasios...
and briefly as Foreign Minister in the cabinets of Dimitrios Voulgaris, Benizelos Roufos and Zinovios Valvis. In 1865 he became Minister of Justice as well...
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