phanariot

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الإنجليزية - التركية
(isim) fener rum memuru (osmanlı imp.)
{i} fener rum memuru (osmanlı imp.)
fenerli
الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
An inhabitant of Phanar, an area in Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople
Used to describe such a person
A class of moneyed ethnically Greek merchants, who claimed Byzantine descent, and who exercised influence in the administration in the Ottoman Empire
One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage