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Constantine Ypsilantis

Constantine Ypsilantis
Prince of Moldavia
Reign9 March 1799 – 4 July 1801
PredecessorAlexandru Callimachi
SuccessorAlexandros Soutzos
Prince of Wallachia
(1st reign)
Reign1 September 1802 – August 1806
PredecessorAlexandros Soutzos
SuccessorJohn Caradja
Prince of Wallachia
(2nd reign)
Reign27 December 1806 – 31 May 1807
PredecessorAlexandros Soutzos
SuccessorRussian occupation
Born1760
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died24 June 1816
Kyiv, Russian Empire
(modern-day Ukraine)
SpouseRalu Callimachi
IssueAlexander Ypsilantis
Demetrios Ypsilantis
Eleni Ypsilanti
Nikolaos Ypsilantis
Georgios Ypsilantis
Grigorios Ypsilantis
Ekaterini Ypsilanti
Maria Ypsilanti
FatherAlexander Ypsilantis
ReligionOrthodox

Constantine Ypsilantis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Υψηλάντης Konstantinos Ypsilantis; Romanian: Constantin Ipsilanti; 1760 – 24 June 1816) was the son of Alexander Ypsilantis, a key member of an important Phanariote family, Grand Dragoman of the Porte (1796–1799), hospodar[1] of Moldavia (1799–1802) and Walachia (1802–1806), and a Prince[2] through marriage to the daughter of Alexandru Callimachi.

  1. ^ East, The Union of Moldavia and Wallachia, 1859, p. 178.
  2. ^ East, The Union of Moldavia and Wallachia, 1859, p. 59.

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