Michael Soutzos
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Soutzos family
The Soutzos or Soutsos is a Greek Phanariote family which grew into prominence and power in Constantinople during the last centuries of Ottoman Empire and gave several short-reign hospodars to the Danubian Principalities, like Mihai Suţu, and his nephew Michael Soutzos . The main branch of the...
of Phanariotes
Phanariotes
Phanariots, Phanariotes, or Phanariote Greeks were members of those prominent Greek families residing in Phanar , the chief Greek quarter of Constantinople, where the Ecumenical Patriarchate is situated.For all their cosmopolitanism and often Western education, the Phanariots were...
, he was the nephew of Mihai Suţu
Mihai Sutu
Mihai Draco Suţu was a Prince of Moldavia between 1792 and 1795. A member of the Soutzos family of Phanariotes, he was the uncle of Mihail Suţu, himself a ruler of Moldavia between 1819 and 1821.-Third ruler of Wallachia:...
; he was in turn a Prince of Moldavia, between 12 June 1819 and 29 March 1821.