• The Dragoman of the Fleet (Ottoman Turkish: ترسانه ترجمانی, romanized: tersâne tercümânı, lit. 'Dragoman of the Arsenal'; Greek: δραγουμάνος του στόλου)...
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    A dragoman was an interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish-, Arabic-, and Persian-speaking countries and polities of the Middle East...
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    Pylis), Dragoman of the Imperial Council (tercümân-ı dîvân-ı hümâyûn), or simply Grand Dragoman (μέγας διερμηνέας, megas diermineas) or Chief Dragoman (tercümân...
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    Mourouzis family (category Romanian people of Greek descent)
    until the Soviet occupation post-World War II. Constantine Mourouzis (1730 – 1 May 1787), Dragoman of the Fleet, Grand Dragoman and Prince of Wallachia...
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    Phanariots (category Politics of the Greek War of Independence)
    positions in the Ottoman Empire: Voivode of Moldavia, Voivode of Wallachia, Grand Dragoman of the Porte and Grand Dragoman of the Fleet. Despite their...
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    Eyalet of the Archipelago. From 1701–1821, the office of the Dragoman of the Fleet, entrusted to a Phanariote Greek, served as intermediary between the Kapudan...
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    dragoman, dragoman of the fleet, and the voivodees of Moldavia and Wallachia. Those Phanariots who attained the princely position of dragoman of the fleet served...
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    The conjoined representation of a crescent and a star is used in various historical contexts, including as a prominent symbol of the Ottoman Empire, and...
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    Constantine Mourouzis (category Dragomans of the Fleet)
    in Moldavia, and soon after Dragoman of the Fleet (deputy minister) of the Ottoman Admiralty, and eventually Grand Dragoman. There are indications that...
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    Constantine Hangerli (category Dragomans of the Fleet)
    serving as Dragoman of the Fleet, Constantine surprised foreign diplomats through his appointment to the throne in Bucharest, in competition with the much more...
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    Mavrogenis as the ruling Prince of Wallachia, since he had previously served as Dragoman of the fleet. The prominent path of the family was continued by other...
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    Nicholas Mavrogenes (category Dragomans of the Fleet)
    Romanian). He lived among the sailors, and was chosen Dragoman of the Fleet to Hasan Pasha, the commander of the Ottoman fleet. Hasan, together with his...
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  • Ottoman Empire other than the Kapudan Pashas who were the Grand Admirals of the Ottoman fleet. Kemal Reis (c. 1451 – 1511) Piri Reis (1465/70–1553) Oruç...
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  • government ministry in North Africa. Dragoman: was an interpreter, translator, and official guide. Dragoman of the Fleet: was a senior office. Effendi: master...
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    Constantinople, he had earlier been Grand Dragoman of the Ottoman Empire. Earthly Delights: Economies and Cultures of Food in Ottoman and Danubian Europe,...
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    Manto Mavrogenous (category Greek people of the Greek War of Independence)
    Dragoman of the Fleet and Prince of Wallachia. A beautiful woman of aristocratic lineage, she grew up in an educated family, influenced by the Age of...
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  • Tzanetos Grigorakis (category 18th-century people from the Ottoman Empire)
    became the Bey of Mani. At first, Grigorakis refused to become a bey, but then the Dragoman of the Fleet of the Ottomans, Nikolaos Mavrogenis, the great-uncle...
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    Nicholas Caradja (category Dragomans of the Porte)
    married Marghioala Slatineanu and had issue Ioan Caradja (1770-1829), Dragoman of the Fleet 1799-1800; married Ecaterina Rodomani and had issue Rhangabé, Eugène...
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  • hegemons of the Christian Ottoman subjects and vassals — and ensured a path of political ascendancy for his descendants. He became Dragoman of the Fleet, and...
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    Algerian fleet off Eleni (Makronisos) on 4 August, so that the Ottoman Porte attempted to bribe him by offering, through the Dragoman of the Fleet, Alexander...
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    Lambros Katsonis (category Recipients of the Order of St. George)
    to their side, sending the Dragoman of the Fleet with a letter promising him amnesty for himself and his followers, a salary of 200,000 gold coins, and...
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  • Hadji Ali Haseki (category Governors of the Ottoman Empire by sanjak)
    including the Grand Vizier Koca Yusuf Pasha, the Kapudan Pasha Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, the Dragoman of the Fleet Nicholas Mavrogenes, and the defterdar...
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    Stefan Bogoridi (category Dragomans)
    joined the Ottoman fleet as Dragoman and, under the command of Seid Mustafa Pasha (future Sultan Mustafa IV), took part in the Second Battle of Abukir...
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    such as the serving Dragoman of the Porte and two retired dragomans, a number of wealthy bankers and merchants, including a member of the ultra-rich...
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    The Wallachian fleet used riverboats of various sizes between the 15th and 17th centuries. In 1794, a small flotilla was created with the approval of...
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    Alexandru Papadopol-Calimah (category Politicians of the United Principalities)
    great-great-grandson of Prince John Theodore Callimachi; his uncles included Prince Constantine Mourouzis and John Callimachi, Dragoman of the Fleet. Scarlat's...
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    scarce, but evidence of inter-cultural cooperation and complex social interaction proves more common. Key use of the word dragoman, literally translator...
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    French, the latter in Moniteur ottoman, and François Alphonse Belin, a dragoman, created his own French version, published in the Journal Asiatique. The Edict...
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    Ιστορία journal, Issue 203, December 2013, p. 67 Özdalga, Elizabeth. The last dragoman: the Swedish orientalist Johannes Kolmodin as scholar, activist and diplomat...
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    27 February 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2017. Özdalga, Elizabeth. "The Last Dragoman: the Swedish Orientalist Johannes Kolmodin as Scholar, Activist and Diplomat...
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