Miltiadis Stavraki Aristarchis was the Ottoman-appointed Prince of Samos from 1859 to 1866.
A lover of music,he finished the Pythagorio High School,and founded three more Girls' Schools in the three Samian regions,he founded the Pythagoras square (in the capital),and the Principal Garden (today the Municipal Garden).
He wished to make Tigani (now Pythagorio) the capital of the Principality of Samos;he created a port there and reordered the street layout of the town. The Samian Parliament donated some fertile land called 'Aristarches' in his honour in Kokkari to express its gratitude.
His rule,fair in the beginning,ended up strict and cruel. He changed the taxation system and made enemies out of his friends. Mitilinii even rebelled against him and the Ottoman army was used to suppress the rebellion,against the rights and privileges of the Principality and its inhabitants. He was overthrown by a popular uprising in 1866.
Ion Ghica was a Romanian statesman, mathematician, diplomat and politician, who was Prime Minister of Romania five times. He was a full member of the Romanian Academy and its president many times. He was the older brother and associate of Pantazi Ghica, a prolific writer and politician.
The Samian Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle near Hera's temple on the Isle of Samos, a Greek colony. The word Sibyl comes from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. There were many Sibyls in the ancient world but she is the one who prophesied the Birth of Jesus in the stable. The Samian Sibyl, by name Phemonoe, or Phyto of whom Eratosthenes wrote.
Samos is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese archipelago, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the 1.6-kilometre-wide (1.0 mi) Mycale Strait. It is also a separate regional unit of the North Aegean region.
Prince Stefan Bogoridi was a high-ranking Ottoman statesman of Bulgarian origin, grandson of Sophronius of Vratsa and father of Alexander Bogoridi and Nicolae Vogoride. Stefan and his brother Athanase were named Bogoridi after Boris I, the first Christian ruler of Bulgaria. Their parents were Ioan Vogoridi and Ana N.
Themistoklis Sofoulis or Sophoulis was a prominent centrist and liberal Greek politician from Samos Island, who served three times as Prime Minister of Greece, with the Liberal Party, which he led for many years.
The Samian War was an Ancient Greek military conflict between Athens and Samos. The war was initiated by Athens's intervention in a dispute between Samos and Miletus. When the Samians refused to break off their attacks on Miletus as ordered, the Athenians easily drove out the oligarchic government of Samos and installed a garrison in the city, but the oligarchs soon returned, with Persian support.
Alexandru Callimachi or Alexandros Kallimachis, son of Scarlat Callimachi, fled Moldavia with his mother and other members of his family in 1821, at the time of his father's death. The family sought refuge in Russia, where Alexander finished his studies, at the University of Kyiv. After traveling through Europe, he made his way to the Ottoman Empire in 1829, where his family possessions and titles were restored to him.
The Battle of Samos was a naval battle fought on August 5–17, 1824 off the Greek island of Samos during the Greek War of Independence.
The Principality of Samos was an autonomous tributary state of the Ottoman Empire from 1834 to 1912. The island of Samos participated in the Greek War of Independence and had successfully resisted several Turkish and Egyptian attempts to occupy it, but it was not included with the boundaries of the newly independent Kingdom of Greece after 1832. Instead, in 1834 the island was granted self-government as a semi-independent state.
The Military-Political System of Samos was a provisional regime that existed in the island of Samos during the Greek War of Independence.
George Berovich, known as Berovich Pasha was a Christian Ottoman statesman who served as Governor-General (wāli) of Crete and Prince of Samos.
Pavlos Mousouros was the Ottoman-appointed Prince of Samos from 1866 to 1873.
Konstantinos Karatheodoris (1841–1922) was an Ottoman Greek statesman, who was a member of the distinguished Phanariote Karatheodori family. He served as the Ottoman-appointed Prince of Samos from 1906 to 1907. He was the younger brother of the diplomat and statesman Alexander Karatheodori Pasha, who also served as Prince of Samos from 1885 to 1895.
Andreas Kopasis was the Ottoman-appointed Prince of Samos from 1908 to 1912. His tenure was widely regarded as pro-Turkish and tyrannical. His bringing in of additional Ottoman troops in 1908 caused a revolt to break out among the Samians, which was quelled brutally by further Ottoman reinforcements. The leaders of the pro-Greek opposition, including Themistoklis Sophoulis, fled the island for Greece. Kopasis was assassinated by a pro-Sophoulis agent on 22 March 1912.
Georgios Georgiadis was the Ottoman-appointed Prince of Samos who reigned briefly from 1907 to 1908.
Konstantinos Vagianis or Kostaki Vayanis Éfendi was a Prince of Samos between March 7, 1899, and 1900. He succeeded Stephanos Mousouros and was in turn succeeded by Michail Grigoriadis on August 16, 1900.
Konstantinos Adosidis (1818–1895) was the Ottoman-appointed Prince of Samos from 1873 to 1874, and again from 1879 to 1885.
Alexandros Mavrogenis Bey was the Ottoman-appointed Prince of Samos from 1902 to 1904.
Lykourgos Logothetis, born Georgios Paplomatas, was a Samian who became the island's leader during the Greek War of Independence.
Eastern Sporades or Eastern Islands was the name of one of the thirteen divisions created in 1828 with the administrative division of the newly formed Hellenic State by the government of Ioannis Kapodistrias.
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