Alexander Mourousis welcoming the British ambassador in Curtea Nouă

Alexander Mourousis (Greek: Αλεξανδρος Μουρουζης - Alexandros Mourouzis, Romanian: Alexandru Moruzi; d. 1816) was a Prince of Moldavia and Prince Wallachia. The Mourousis were a prominent Phanariote family. Image File history File links Alexandru_Moruzi_at_Curtea_Nouă.jpg‎ File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Alexander Mourousis ... Image File history File links Alexandru_Moruzi_at_Curtea_Nouă.jpg‎ File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Alexander Mourousis ... Curtea Nouă (Romanian for New Court) was the residence of the prince of Wallachia between 1776 and 1812. ... This is a list of rulers of Moldavia. ... Moldavia (Moldova in Romanian) was a Romanian principality, originally created in the Middle Ages, now divided between Romania, Moldovan Republic and Ukraine. ... Below is the list of Wallachian rulers, since the first mentioned until the unification with Moldavia in 1859. ... This article is about the region in what is now Southern Romania. ... The Mourousis or Moruzi are a family which was first mentioned in the Empire of Trebizond. ... Phanariotes (from Phanar, the chief Greek quarter at Istambul, where the oecumenical patriarchate is situated) were those members of families resident in the Phanar quarter who between the years 1711 and 1821 were appointed voivodes of the Danubian principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia). ...

Biography

As the son of Constantine Mourousis, he was brought up and educated to speak six languages in addition to his native Greek, and was open to Enlightenment ideas. He ascended the throne in Iaşi (Moldavia) in January 1792, and transferred a year later to the throne of Bucharest (1793-1796), where his first year in office coincided with a bubonic plague outbreak (which he dealt with by quarantineing and confining the ill to the village of Dudeşti).^[1] He exploited the population, buying huge amounts of wheat that he then sold to the starving inhabitants a price almost four times higher. Constantin Moruzi Constantine Demetrius Mourousis (Greek: Κωνσταντινος Δημητριος Μουρουζης - Constantinos Demetrios Mourouzis, Romanian:Constantin Dimitrie Moruzi; d. ... The Age of Enlightenment refers to either the eighteenth century in European philosophy, or the longer period including the seventeenth century and the Age of Reason. ... County IaÅŸi County Status Municipality Mayor Gheorghe Nichita, Social Democratic Party, since 2003 Area 93. ... Status Capital of Romania Mayor Adriean Videanu, Democratic Party, since 2005 Area 228 km² Population (2003) 1,921,751[1] Density 9131. ... Bubonic plague is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease plague, which is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis. ... Quarantine, a medical term (from Italian: quaranta giorni, forty days) is the act of keeping people or animals separated for a period of time before, for instance, allowing them to enter another country. ... DudeÅŸti is a neighbourhood in south-eastern Bucharest, along the Calea DudeÅŸti. ...

Dismissed owing to intrigues at the court of his Ottoman overlord, Sultan Selim III, he was reinstated (1798–1801), and had to deal with Osman Pazvantoglu's incursion in Oltenia (1800). Powerless against the latter's destructive attacks, he asked to be relieved of his position, and, as a highly unusual gesture, paid off Ottoman authorities in exchange for his own replacement.^[2] now. ... In feudalism, an overlord is a supreme lord; one who is the lord of other lords. ... The Ottoman Dynasty (or the Imperial House of Osman) ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1281 to 1923, beginning with Osman I (not counting his father, ErtuÄŸrul), though the dynasty was not proclaimed until 1383 when Murad I declared himself sultan. ... Sultan Selim III Selim III (December 24, 1761 – July 28/29, 1808) was a sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1789–1807). ... Osman Pazvantoglu(1758-27 January 1807, Vidin) was a Turkish pasha and from 1794 a governor of the Vidin district of the Ottoman Empire. ... Map of Romania with Oltenia highlighted Oltenia or Lesser Wallachia is a historical province of Romania. ...

At the insistence of the French Empire, he was again appointed Prince of Moldavia (1802–1806 and 1806–1807), but was ultimately dismissed through another French intervention at the Porte - on August 12, 1806, Horace Sébastiani, the French Ambassador to Turkey, called on Selim III to punish Constantine Ypsilantis' pro-Russian activities in Wallachia, and to prevent a Moldavian-Wallachian-Russian alliance.^[3] This last event constituted one of the causes for the Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812. The First French Empire, commonly known as the French Empire or the Napoleonic Empire, covers the period of the domination of France and much of continental Europe by Napoleon I of France. ... Synonym of the government of the Ottoman Empire. ... August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Horace François Bastien Sebastiani (1772-1851) was a French soldier and diplomat. ... Ahmed III receiving the embassy of Charles de Ferriol in 1699; painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour France has had a permanent embassy the Ottoman Empire since 1535, during the times of King Francis I and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. ... Constantine Ypsilanti (Greek: Κωνσταντινος Υψηλαντης - Constantinos Ypsilantis; Romanian: Constantin Ipsilanti, d. ... The Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812 was one of many wars fought between Imperial Russia and Ottoman Empire. ...

During his rules in Bucharest, Mourousis notably rebuilt Curtea Nouă, reopened a cloth manufacture in Ilfov County (and reformed its system of worker employment and payment), instituted a boyar office as centralized tax collection in the capital city, and increased the water supply by tapping sources in the Cotroceni area.^[4] Like his father before him, he founded schools and funded scholarships. Curtea Nouă (Romanian for New Court) was the residence of the prince of Wallachia between 1776 and 1812. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Categories: Counties of Romania | Stub | Ilfov | Bucharest ... A boyar (also spelled bojar) or bolyarin was a member of the highest rank of the feudal Russian, Romanian and Bulgarian aristocracy, second only to the ruling princes, from the tenth through the seventeenth century. ... A tax (also known as a duty) is a financial charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e. ... House in Cotroceni neighbourhood. ... A scholarship is an award of access to an institution or a financial aid award for an individual (a scholar) for the purposes of furthering their education. ...

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Notes

References

• Neagu Djuvara, Între Orient şi Occident. Ţările române la începutul epocii moderne ("Between Orient and Occident. The Romanian Lands at the beginning of the modern era"), Humanitas, Bucharest, 1995
• Constantin C. Giurescu, Istoria Bucureştilor. Din cele mai vechi timpuri pînă în zilele noastre ("History of Bucharest. From the earliest times until our day"), Ed. Pentru Literatură, Bucharest, 1966
• Marinescu, Florin, Etude genealogique sur la famille Mourouzi ("Genealogical study of the Mourousis family"), Centre de Recherches Néohelléniques, Athens, 1987