The History of Modern Greece

THE

HISTORY

OF

MODERN GREECE,

FROM ITS CONQUEST BY THE ROMANS B.C. 146,

TO THE PRESENT TIME.

BY JAMES EMERSON, ESQ.

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,

8, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1830.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTIFY,

Dorset street, Fleet street.

OTHER

Early practice of the Porte in its intercourse with foreign

States

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PANAYOTAKI, the first Greek Drogueman of the Divan

His birth and history; singular circumstances of his

His good fortune, and death

ALEXANDER MAVROCORDATO, his successor

New field of ambition opened to the Greeks by the
creation of the office of Drogueman to the Divan

Its privileges, revenue, and duties

General influence acquired by the Greeks after the ele-

HOSPODARIATS OF WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA

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History of these provinces; the ancient Dacia, con-

quered by Trajan

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Ceded to the Goths by Aurelian

ib.

Occupied by the Huns, the Gepida, and Lombards

Seized by the Avars, who are in turn expelled by the
Sclavi and Bulgarians

Overrun by the Tartars, and recovered by Rhaddo Negro

and Bogdan

ib.

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Their subsequent rebellions, and final assignment to Tur-
key under Mahomet III. .

Constitution and political condition of the provinces
Treachery of the Moldavian Hospodar in 1711; and the
subsequent fate of Cantemir the historian, and Bes-
saraba

Later history of the Hospodariots,-note

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Education and general characteristics of the Phanariots 30
Forms observed at the installation of a Hospodar
His progress to his Government, and ceremony of his
inauguration.

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Mode of life and general characteristics of the Hos-

podars

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The Boyars, or native nobility of the two provinces

Policy and general administration of the Hospodars

Their revenue and tyranny.

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Politic system of the Romans in extending the know-

ledge of their language throughout their conquests

Their attempts resisted by the Greeks, and Greek culti-

vated at Rome

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Its extent under the Roman Emperors, and the first

symptoms of its corruption

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Changes which it underwent on the transfer of the seat
of government to Constantinople

Vain attempt of the first Byzantine Emperors to intro-
duce Latin as the language of the Court

Influence of the northern barbarians on the language of

The classical language still preserved in its purity by a

few, notwithstanding this general corruption of the

vulgar dialect

This preservation chiefly owing to the Church

State of the language in the eleventh century, and effect

of the Crusades

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Its revolutions from that period to the Ottoman con-

Account of its later cultivation at Constantinople,-note
State of the language at the present day

Its various dialects, and their several origins
Peculiarities on which the modern language differs from
the ancient, in construction and pronunciation,-note
Account of the first Greek works printed in Europe,

-note

Introduction of the study of the Greek language into
England in the reign of Henry VII.—note
Controversies relative to the pronunciation of the
Greek vowels,-note

Disputes of Sir John Smyth and Sir John Cheke with

Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, relative to the re-

formed pronunciation,-note

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