The Ypsilantis family hailed from the Pontian population of Trabzon. He was born on 12 December 1792 in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, as the eldest of three brothers (the others being Nicholas and Demetrios). His father Constantine Ypsilantis and grandfather Alexander were active in the Ottoman administration and highly educated, each with their own share of service as a dragoman in the Sultan's court and as hospodars of the Danubian Principalities.
Alexander Ypsilantis (Greek:Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης - Alexandros Ypsilantis, Romanian:Alexandru Ipsilanti; 1725–1805) was a GreekVoivode (Prince) of Wallachia from 1775 to 1782, and again from 1796 to 1797, and also Voivode (Prince) of Moldavia from 1786 to 1788. He bears the same name as, but should not be confused with, his grandson, the Greek War of Independence hero of the early 19th century. The Ypsilantis were a prominent family of Phanariotes.
Reign
In 1774, as a diplomat in service to the Porte, Ypsilanti took part in the signing of the Kuchuk-Kainarji peace treaty with Russia; a year later, he was rewarded for this and other services by being appointed dragoman. Still in 1775, he was awarded the throne of Wallachia. This could only happen as the Russian troops were ending their occupation of Bucharest, begun in 1771. The throne had been vacant throughout this period, a hiatus provoked by Emanuel Giani Ruset's agreement with Catherine II at the start of the war.
The Sword of Prince Ipsilanti / The History of Romania in One Object
The atifact presented in the newest episode of The History of Romania in One Object series points out to the special geopolitical position Moldavia and Wallachia had at the meeting point of three bellicose empires: The Ottoman, The Austrian, and The Russian. Situated at the intersection of strategic, political and economic interests, the Romanian Principalities bore witness to, and indeed were directly involved in, major historical events such as the Greek Revolution of 1821, led by Alexandru Ipsilanti, who started his march to the South in Moldavia's capital, Iași.
Text by Moldavia's History Museum in Iași historian and curator Sorin Iftimi.
Video presentation by Moldavia's History Museum in Iași historian and curator Cătălin Hriban.
A Film by Mihai Neagu.
published: 28 Sep 2020
Greek history - The Enlightenment and the founding of the Filiki Etairia
published: 05 Apr 2017
Ypsilantis BACKNANG - Murrhardt 13.05.13
published: 07 Feb 2014
Prometheus Ressurected
Prometheus Resurrected: The London Protocols- Celebrating the friendship of France, Great Britain, Russia, and Greece in the Rise of the Modern Greek Nation through the London Protocols of 1827-1830.
A Joint Program of the French, English, Russian and Greek Rooms of the Nationality Rooms Program at the University of Pittsburgh and the European Art Center [Greece],
published: 29 Mar 2021
The Greek War of Independence in 1821: The Protagonists
The protagonists of the Greek Revolution in 1821 against the Ottoman Empire.
The Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1832.
Loss by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100171
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
published: 06 May 2018
Macedonian Revolutionary activity 1821-1822 HD
Revolutionary activity in Macedonia .
Map1: 00:09 Map showing the battles of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia, 1821-1822.
Letter: 00:44 Letter of Alexander Ypsilantis to Emmanouel Pappas, dated 8 October 1820.
Map2: 03:40 The movements of Greek and Turkish forces during the insurrection in Chalcidice (1821) and on Olympus and Vérmion (1822).
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The economic ascent of Thessaloniki and of the other urban centres of Macedonia coincided with the cultural and political renaissance of the Greeks. The ideals and patriotic songs of Rigas Feraios and others had made a profound impression upon the Thessalonians. Α few years later, the revolutionary fervour of the southern Greeks was to spread to these parts, and the seeds ...
published: 18 Mar 2013
A Detailed History of Modern Greece, 1821-2020
See a detailed history of Greece from 1821 to 2020.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdty40bDpzg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sHUFFfYSo8
https://omniatlas.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEqqgpeFPtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyySenaVbng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353F-1i0IDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtbKWbN-g8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_o1lRQUnM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISRd-zKVe_s&t=410s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdAzbjMdhnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMbnMtGmCms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5owwhetPMnA&t=474s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-lJ6xR2un4&t=7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwBwzN57vTI
https://www.wikipedia.org
Previous works
The atifact presented in the newest episode of The History of Romania in One Object series points out to the special geopolitical position Moldavia and Wallachi...
The atifact presented in the newest episode of The History of Romania in One Object series points out to the special geopolitical position Moldavia and Wallachia had at the meeting point of three bellicose empires: The Ottoman, The Austrian, and The Russian. Situated at the intersection of strategic, political and economic interests, the Romanian Principalities bore witness to, and indeed were directly involved in, major historical events such as the Greek Revolution of 1821, led by Alexandru Ipsilanti, who started his march to the South in Moldavia's capital, Iași.
Text by Moldavia's History Museum in Iași historian and curator Sorin Iftimi.
Video presentation by Moldavia's History Museum in Iași historian and curator Cătălin Hriban.
A Film by Mihai Neagu.
The atifact presented in the newest episode of The History of Romania in One Object series points out to the special geopolitical position Moldavia and Wallachia had at the meeting point of three bellicose empires: The Ottoman, The Austrian, and The Russian. Situated at the intersection of strategic, political and economic interests, the Romanian Principalities bore witness to, and indeed were directly involved in, major historical events such as the Greek Revolution of 1821, led by Alexandru Ipsilanti, who started his march to the South in Moldavia's capital, Iași.
Text by Moldavia's History Museum in Iași historian and curator Sorin Iftimi.
Video presentation by Moldavia's History Museum in Iași historian and curator Cătălin Hriban.
A Film by Mihai Neagu.
Prometheus Resurrected: The London Protocols- Celebrating the friendship of France, Great Britain, Russia, and Greece in the Rise of the Modern Greek Nation thr...
Prometheus Resurrected: The London Protocols- Celebrating the friendship of France, Great Britain, Russia, and Greece in the Rise of the Modern Greek Nation through the London Protocols of 1827-1830.
A Joint Program of the French, English, Russian and Greek Rooms of the Nationality Rooms Program at the University of Pittsburgh and the European Art Center [Greece],
Prometheus Resurrected: The London Protocols- Celebrating the friendship of France, Great Britain, Russia, and Greece in the Rise of the Modern Greek Nation through the London Protocols of 1827-1830.
A Joint Program of the French, English, Russian and Greek Rooms of the Nationality Rooms Program at the University of Pittsburgh and the European Art Center [Greece],
The protagonists of the Greek Revolution in 1821 against the Ottoman Empire.
The Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by Greek revolutio...
The protagonists of the Greek Revolution in 1821 against the Ottoman Empire.
The Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1832.
Loss by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100171
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
The protagonists of the Greek Revolution in 1821 against the Ottoman Empire.
The Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1832.
Loss by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100171
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Revolutionary activity in Macedonia .
Map1: 00:09 Map showing the battles of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia, 1821-1822.
Letter: 00:44 Letter of Alex...
Revolutionary activity in Macedonia .
Map1: 00:09 Map showing the battles of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia, 1821-1822.
Letter: 00:44 Letter of Alexander Ypsilantis to Emmanouel Pappas, dated 8 October 1820.
Map2: 03:40 The movements of Greek and Turkish forces during the insurrection in Chalcidice (1821) and on Olympus and Vérmion (1822).
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The economic ascent of Thessaloniki and of the other urban centres of Macedonia coincided with the cultural and political renaissance of the Greeks. The ideals and patriotic songs of Rigas Feraios and others had made a profound impression upon the Thessalonians. Α few years later, the revolutionary fervour of the southern Greeks was to spread to these parts, and the seeds of Filiki Eteria were speedily to take root. The leader and coordinator of the revolution in Macedonia was Emmanouel Pappas from the village of Dobista, Serres, who was initiated into the Filiki Eteria in 1819. Papas had considerable influence over the local Ottoman authorities, especially the local governor, Ismail Bey, and offered much of his personal wealth for the cause.
Following the instructions of Alexander Ypsilantis, that is to prepare the ground and to rouse the inhabitants of Macedonia to rebellion, Papas loaded arms and munitions from Constantinople on a ship on 23 March and proceeded to Mount Athos, considering that this would be the most suitable spring-board for starting the insurrection. As Vacalopoulos notes, however, "adequate preparations for rebellion had not been made, nor were revolutionary ideals to be reconciled with the ideological world of the monks within the Athonite regime". On 8 May, the Turks, infuriated by the landing of sailors from Psara at Tsayezi, by the capture of Turkish merchants and the seizure of their goods, rampaged through the streets of Serres, searched the houses of the notables for arms, imprisoned the Metropolitan and 150 merchants, and seized their goods as a reprisal for the plundering by the Psarians.
In Thessaloniki, governor Yusuf Bey (the son of Ismail Bey) imprisoned in his headquarters more than 400 hostages, of whom more than 100 were monks from the monastic estates. He also wished to seize the powerful notables of Polygyros, who got wind of his intentions and fled. On 17 May, the Greeks of Polygyros took up arms, killed the local governor and 14 of his men, and wounded three others; they also repulsed two Turkish detachments. On 18 May, when Yusuf learned of the incidents at Polygyros and the spreading of the insurrection to the villages of Chalkidiki, he ordered half of his hostages to be slaughtered before his eyes. The Mulla of Thessalonica, Hayrıülah, gives the following description of Yusuf's retaliations:
Every day and every night you hear nothing in the streets of Thessaloniki but shouting and moaning. It seems that Yusuf Bey, the Yeniceri Agasi, the Subaşı, the hocas and the ulemas have all gone raving mad.
Revolutionary activity in Macedonia .
Map1: 00:09 Map showing the battles of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia, 1821-1822.
Letter: 00:44 Letter of Alexander Ypsilantis to Emmanouel Pappas, dated 8 October 1820.
Map2: 03:40 The movements of Greek and Turkish forces during the insurrection in Chalcidice (1821) and on Olympus and Vérmion (1822).
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The economic ascent of Thessaloniki and of the other urban centres of Macedonia coincided with the cultural and political renaissance of the Greeks. The ideals and patriotic songs of Rigas Feraios and others had made a profound impression upon the Thessalonians. Α few years later, the revolutionary fervour of the southern Greeks was to spread to these parts, and the seeds of Filiki Eteria were speedily to take root. The leader and coordinator of the revolution in Macedonia was Emmanouel Pappas from the village of Dobista, Serres, who was initiated into the Filiki Eteria in 1819. Papas had considerable influence over the local Ottoman authorities, especially the local governor, Ismail Bey, and offered much of his personal wealth for the cause.
Following the instructions of Alexander Ypsilantis, that is to prepare the ground and to rouse the inhabitants of Macedonia to rebellion, Papas loaded arms and munitions from Constantinople on a ship on 23 March and proceeded to Mount Athos, considering that this would be the most suitable spring-board for starting the insurrection. As Vacalopoulos notes, however, "adequate preparations for rebellion had not been made, nor were revolutionary ideals to be reconciled with the ideological world of the monks within the Athonite regime". On 8 May, the Turks, infuriated by the landing of sailors from Psara at Tsayezi, by the capture of Turkish merchants and the seizure of their goods, rampaged through the streets of Serres, searched the houses of the notables for arms, imprisoned the Metropolitan and 150 merchants, and seized their goods as a reprisal for the plundering by the Psarians.
In Thessaloniki, governor Yusuf Bey (the son of Ismail Bey) imprisoned in his headquarters more than 400 hostages, of whom more than 100 were monks from the monastic estates. He also wished to seize the powerful notables of Polygyros, who got wind of his intentions and fled. On 17 May, the Greeks of Polygyros took up arms, killed the local governor and 14 of his men, and wounded three others; they also repulsed two Turkish detachments. On 18 May, when Yusuf learned of the incidents at Polygyros and the spreading of the insurrection to the villages of Chalkidiki, he ordered half of his hostages to be slaughtered before his eyes. The Mulla of Thessalonica, Hayrıülah, gives the following description of Yusuf's retaliations:
Every day and every night you hear nothing in the streets of Thessaloniki but shouting and moaning. It seems that Yusuf Bey, the Yeniceri Agasi, the Subaşı, the hocas and the ulemas have all gone raving mad.
See a detailed history of Greece from 1821 to 2020.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdty40bDpzg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sHUFFfYSo8
https://om...
See a detailed history of Greece from 1821 to 2020.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdty40bDpzg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sHUFFfYSo8
https://omniatlas.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEqqgpeFPtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyySenaVbng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353F-1i0IDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtbKWbN-g8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_o1lRQUnM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISRd-zKVe_s&t=410s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdAzbjMdhnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMbnMtGmCms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5owwhetPMnA&t=474s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-lJ6xR2un4&t=7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwBwzN57vTI
https://www.wikipedia.org
Previous works
See a detailed history of Greece from 1821 to 2020.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdty40bDpzg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sHUFFfYSo8
https://omniatlas.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEqqgpeFPtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyySenaVbng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353F-1i0IDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtbKWbN-g8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_o1lRQUnM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISRd-zKVe_s&t=410s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdAzbjMdhnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMbnMtGmCms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5owwhetPMnA&t=474s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-lJ6xR2un4&t=7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwBwzN57vTI
https://www.wikipedia.org
Previous works
The atifact presented in the newest episode of The History of Romania in One Object series points out to the special geopolitical position Moldavia and Wallachia had at the meeting point of three bellicose empires: The Ottoman, The Austrian, and The Russian. Situated at the intersection of strategic, political and economic interests, the Romanian Principalities bore witness to, and indeed were directly involved in, major historical events such as the Greek Revolution of 1821, led by Alexandru Ipsilanti, who started his march to the South in Moldavia's capital, Iași.
Text by Moldavia's History Museum in Iași historian and curator Sorin Iftimi.
Video presentation by Moldavia's History Museum in Iași historian and curator Cătălin Hriban.
A Film by Mihai Neagu.
Prometheus Resurrected: The London Protocols- Celebrating the friendship of France, Great Britain, Russia, and Greece in the Rise of the Modern Greek Nation through the London Protocols of 1827-1830.
A Joint Program of the French, English, Russian and Greek Rooms of the Nationality Rooms Program at the University of Pittsburgh and the European Art Center [Greece],
The protagonists of the Greek Revolution in 1821 against the Ottoman Empire.
The Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1832.
Loss by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100171
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Revolutionary activity in Macedonia .
Map1: 00:09 Map showing the battles of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia, 1821-1822.
Letter: 00:44 Letter of Alexander Ypsilantis to Emmanouel Pappas, dated 8 October 1820.
Map2: 03:40 The movements of Greek and Turkish forces during the insurrection in Chalcidice (1821) and on Olympus and Vérmion (1822).
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The economic ascent of Thessaloniki and of the other urban centres of Macedonia coincided with the cultural and political renaissance of the Greeks. The ideals and patriotic songs of Rigas Feraios and others had made a profound impression upon the Thessalonians. Α few years later, the revolutionary fervour of the southern Greeks was to spread to these parts, and the seeds of Filiki Eteria were speedily to take root. The leader and coordinator of the revolution in Macedonia was Emmanouel Pappas from the village of Dobista, Serres, who was initiated into the Filiki Eteria in 1819. Papas had considerable influence over the local Ottoman authorities, especially the local governor, Ismail Bey, and offered much of his personal wealth for the cause.
Following the instructions of Alexander Ypsilantis, that is to prepare the ground and to rouse the inhabitants of Macedonia to rebellion, Papas loaded arms and munitions from Constantinople on a ship on 23 March and proceeded to Mount Athos, considering that this would be the most suitable spring-board for starting the insurrection. As Vacalopoulos notes, however, "adequate preparations for rebellion had not been made, nor were revolutionary ideals to be reconciled with the ideological world of the monks within the Athonite regime". On 8 May, the Turks, infuriated by the landing of sailors from Psara at Tsayezi, by the capture of Turkish merchants and the seizure of their goods, rampaged through the streets of Serres, searched the houses of the notables for arms, imprisoned the Metropolitan and 150 merchants, and seized their goods as a reprisal for the plundering by the Psarians.
In Thessaloniki, governor Yusuf Bey (the son of Ismail Bey) imprisoned in his headquarters more than 400 hostages, of whom more than 100 were monks from the monastic estates. He also wished to seize the powerful notables of Polygyros, who got wind of his intentions and fled. On 17 May, the Greeks of Polygyros took up arms, killed the local governor and 14 of his men, and wounded three others; they also repulsed two Turkish detachments. On 18 May, when Yusuf learned of the incidents at Polygyros and the spreading of the insurrection to the villages of Chalkidiki, he ordered half of his hostages to be slaughtered before his eyes. The Mulla of Thessalonica, Hayrıülah, gives the following description of Yusuf's retaliations:
Every day and every night you hear nothing in the streets of Thessaloniki but shouting and moaning. It seems that Yusuf Bey, the Yeniceri Agasi, the Subaşı, the hocas and the ulemas have all gone raving mad.
See a detailed history of Greece from 1821 to 2020.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdty40bDpzg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sHUFFfYSo8
https://omniatlas.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEqqgpeFPtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyySenaVbng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353F-1i0IDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtbKWbN-g8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_o1lRQUnM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISRd-zKVe_s&t=410s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdAzbjMdhnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMbnMtGmCms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5owwhetPMnA&t=474s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-lJ6xR2un4&t=7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwBwzN57vTI
https://www.wikipedia.org
Previous works
The Ypsilantis family hailed from the Pontian population of Trabzon. He was born on 12 December 1792 in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, as the eldest of three brothers (the others being Nicholas and Demetrios). His father Constantine Ypsilantis and grandfather Alexander were active in the Ottoman administration and highly educated, each with their own share of service as a dragoman in the Sultan's court and as hospodars of the Danubian Principalities.