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About Alexander Ypsilantis
Alexandros Ypsilantis was a Greek nationalist politician who was member of a prominent Phanariot Greek family, a prince of the Danubian Principalities, a senior officer of the Imperial Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars, and a leader of the Filiki Etaireia, a secret organization that coordinated the beginning of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.
Everything about Alexander Ypsilantis →- Occupation
- military personnel, major general, freedom fighter
- Position held
- member of Filiki Eteria, lord of Moldavia, lord of Wallachia
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Born
- December 12, 1792
- Died
- January 31, 1828