Nicholas Mavrogenes (or Mavrogenous; Greek: Νικόλαος ΜαυρογένηςNikolaos Mavrogenis (Greek: "Blackbeard"), Romanian: Nicolae Mavroghenipronounced[nikoˈla.emavroˈɡenʲ]), (1735 – 30 September 1790) was a Phanariote Prince of Wallachia (reigned 1786–1789). He was the great-uncle of Manto Mavrogenous, a heroine of the Greek War of Independence.
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Ottoman Sultan Murad III Vassilis Argyropoulos (1894–1953) actor NicholasMavrogenes (1738–1790), prince of Wallachia Athanasius Parios (1721/22–1813)...
1776); his legacy was carried out by NicholasMavrogenes. The Russo-Turkish–Austrian War erupted in 1787, and Mavrogenes retreated in front of a new Habsburg...
entered the country during the Russo-Turkish-Austrian War, deposing NicholasMavrogenes in 1789. A period of crisis followed the Ottoman recovery: Oltenia...
year. In Christmas lore (such as in the narrative poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas"), reindeer are often depicted pulling the sleigh of Santa Claus. Marjorie...
Phanariotes, balanced by nuanced portrayas of individual princes such as NicholasMavrogenes, his contempt toward Westernization, and his appreciation for the...
reign of Alexander Ypsilanti (1774–1782) and was completed by Prince NicholasMavrogenes (1786–1790) during the Phanariote age also called the Greek origin...
Predecessor Nicholas Caradja Successor NicholasMavrogenes Prince of Wallachia (2nd reign) Reign March 1791 – 10 January 1793 Predecessor NicholasMavrogenes Successor...
family Nicolae Caradja Jean Georges Caradja the Mavrocordatos family NicholasMavrogenes Constantin and Alexandru Moruzi Alexander and Constantine Ypsilanti...
languages and eventually became a clerk for the Wallachian Prince NicholasMavrogenes. When the Russo-Turkish War (1787-1792) broke out, he was charged...
to the Life-giving Spring. The church was built in 1786-1787 by NicholasMavrogenes, the Prince of Wallachia, and his wife Maria, in thanks for their...
dissolved her levy army—though a core force had briefly reemerged under NicholasMavrogenes, who led a Wallachian peasant force into the Austro-Turkish War of...
Eleni Skanavi, the daughter of a banker, whose aunt was the wife of NicholasMavrogenes (Prince of Wallachia in 1786–1789). The couple had five children...
Princes, notably at the coronations of Alexander Ypsilantis (1775) and NicholasMavrogenes (1786), and the wedding of Princess Zamfira, daughter of John Caradja...
a ceremony also attended by Prince NicholasMavrogenes. A Habsburg invasion in November 1789 chased out Mavrogenes, and left the country occupied until...
adaptation takes place, according to Călinescu, during the rule of Prince NicholasMavrogenes (1786–1789), or, in Cioculescu's account: "toward the end of the...
Kapudan Pasha Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, the Dragoman of the Fleet NicholasMavrogenes, and the defterdar (finance minister), turned against Haseki, and...
princes of his youth – like Alexander Ypsilantis (1725-1805) and NicholasMavrogenes – cultivated the delicate climate of learning and culture around...
creating portrait-caricatures—for instance, that of the sailor-prince NicholasMavrogenes. Love stories, abductions and releases, spectacular executions (such...
expiration of Scarlat Callimachi's seven-year term of office; Smaragda Mavrogenes-Callimachi, who was Roxani's maternal aunt, had been her predecessor as...
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