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    Gregory V (Greek: Γρηγόριος; 1746 – 22 April 1821), born Georgios Angelopoulos (Γεώργιος Αγγελόπουλος), was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1797...
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    spelled Maximos, otherwise known as Maximus the Theologian and Maximus of Constantinople (c. 580 – 13 August 662), was a Christian monk, theologian, and scholar...
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    The Great Powers ratified the terms of the Constantinople Arrangement in connection with the border between Greece and the Ottoman Empire in the London...
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  • The Constantinople massacre of 1821 was orchestrated by the authorities of the Ottoman Empire against the Greek community of Constantinople in retaliation...
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    London: Cobden-Sanderson. Du Camp, Maxime (1949). Souvenirs d'un Demi-Siècle: Au Temps de Louis-Philippe et de Napoléon III 1830-1870 (in French). Hachette...
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    launch revolts in the Peloponnese, the Danubian Principalities, and Constantinople. The insurrection was planned for 25 March 1821; the Orthodox Christian...
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    IX purchased the reputed Crown of Thorns from the Emperor Baldwin of Constantinople, Louis received the celebrated relic at Sens Cathedral, escorted it...
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    for over 1100 years, had been fatally weakened since the sacking of Constantinople by the Latin Crusaders in 1204. The Ottoman advance into Greece was...
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    families in Phanar (Φανάρι, modern Fener), the chief Greek quarter of Constantinople where the Ecumenical Patriarchate is located, who traditionally occupied...
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    Greek State. Society members were mainly young Phanariot Greeks from Constantinople and the Russian Empire, local political and military leaders from the...
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    Persat Theobald Piscatory Maxime Raybaud Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély Giuseppe Rosaroll Annibale Santorre di Rossi de Pomarolo, Count of Santarosa...
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    Nicholas I. He left Constantinople for the last time in 1857, and resigned early the next year. For the next twenty-two years Lord Stratford de Redcliffe lived...
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  • Millingen (Constantinople, 22 November 1848 – Dunblane, Scotland, 16 November 1940) Edwin [van] Millingen (Constantinople, 30 April 1850 – Constantinople, 7 April...
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    Klepht (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    same Greek root, κλέπτειν (kléptein), "to steal". After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 and then the fall of Mistra in the Despotate of the Morea, most...
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    Goulette outside Tunis. In July 1570, while ostensibly en route to Constantinople to ask the Sultan for more ships and men in order to evict the Spaniards...
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    of the Greeks in the Greek quarter of Constantinople were massacred. On Easter Sunday, 9 April 1821, Gregory V was hanged in the central outside portal...
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    Hayreddin Barbarossa (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    joint campaigns with the French in the 1540s. Barbarossa retired to Constantinople in 1545 and died the following year. Khizr was born sometime between...
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    Pontic Greek population of Trabzon. He was born on 12 December 1792 in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, as the eldest of five brothers (the...
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    (1944). "La personnalité de Maxime le Grec". Revue des études byzantines. 2: 255–260. doi:10.3406/rebyz.1944.919. Haney, Jack V. (1973). From Italy to Muscovy...
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  • under a Bavarian prince. The decisions were ratified in the Treaty of Constantinople later that year. The treaty followed the Akkerman Convention which had...
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    probably developed in the imperial kitchens of the Topkapı Palace in Constantinople (modern Istanbul). The Sultan presented trays of baklava to the Janissaries...
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    Palestine, Constantinople, Morocco, French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa. A law was passed on April 30, 1921 establishing the new Croix de guerre...
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  • great-granddaughter of Louis the Pious and of Anne of Constantinople. William I is known for having had la chartreuse de Valbonne with Burgundy roofs built, which...
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    micro-biologist Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870–1942), Nobel Prize in physics Maxime Agueh (born 1978), footballer Sanaa Altama (born 1990), footballer Alain...
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    Saint Maxime of Padua The altar houses the tomb containing the remains of the second bishop of Padua, Saint Maximus. The statue group: saint maxime, the...
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    the first woman to attain the rank of admiral. Bouboulina was born in Constantinople in 1771. Her father was Stavrianos Pinotsis, an Arvanite from Hydra...
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  • Hasan Pasha became ruler of Algiers when his father was called to Constantinople in 1545. Barbarossa died peacefully in the Ottoman capital in 1546....
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  • Persat Theobald Piscatory Maxime Raybaud Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély Giuseppe Rosaroll Annibale Santorre di Rossi de Pomarolo, Count of Santarosa...
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    Pyrenees (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Paris, Université de Paris – Sorbonne 24 – 26 avril 2002. Paris, 2003, 191 – 202, (Elsevier France, ISBN 2-84299-452-3). Padel Maxime; Sébastien Clausen;...
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    Persat Theobald Piscatory Maxime Raybaud Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély Giuseppe Rosaroll Annibale Santorre di Rossi de Pomarolo, Count of Santarosa...
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