Alexandros Rizos Rangavis |
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A Greek settler family of Taganrog in the Azov Sea, their origins being from Mani. The family included military officers, landowners and merchants, with notable activity from the middle of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. Members of the family distinguished themselves in the arts and literature as well as holding high administrative positions. |
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Arvanitidis and Sideridis families and oil trade in Batumi |
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At the end of the nineteenth century the Arvanitidis and Sideridis families were found to have settled in Constantinople. They were merchant families who from the 1870s were also occupied with navigation and shipping, especially with the transportation of petroleum from Batumi. The shipping activity of the Sideridis family ceased in 1914 whilst that of the Arvanitidis family after 1930. |
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A merchant from Ioannina, Tsakalof was one of the leading figures of the Society of Friends (Filiki Etaireia). After determined society activity in Paris, he participated in the founding of the Etaireia in Odessa; this was followed by intense conspiratorial actions and his descent to the rebelled Greek area. He ended up in Moscow where he died. |
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Family of Greek settlers in Taiganio (Taganrog) of Azov with origins from Kefalonia distinguished for their activity in trade and the arts from the beginning of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century. |
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Merchant family of diaspora Greeks located in Vasiliko (Tsarevo). Its founder was Christos Danielopoulos, who got involved in exports. From the late 19th century, the family moved from Vasiliko to Russia, then to Romania, to finally settle in Greece in the middle of the 20th century. Its main entrepreneurial activities were in Romania with the establishment of the colonial trade company Danielopoulos Bros, which was founded in 1814 in Constanţa and dissolved in 1948. |
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Important scholar of the Greek Enlightenment. He taught at the Principality Academy in Iaşi (Jassy) and published numerous books, both monographs on the history and geography of Romania and Europe in general, and many translations of scientific and philosophical texts. |
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Greek merchant born in Kefalonia, a public figure of Odessa. He was the mayor of the city between 1818 and 1821. |
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