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Phanariote

noun

Meaning

  1. An inhabitant of Phanar, the historically Greek district of Constantinople; hence, a member of the Greek official class in the Ottoman Empire.
  2. Pertaining to these people or to the Phanar.

Etymology / origin

From Greek Φαναριώτης (Fanariótis).

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