family originally from central Asia minor, later marquesses of Montferrat Photeinos Philanthropenos, noble family of the Byzantine Empire. Rallis, from Chios, later a political family in the Hellenic Republic. Rizos Rangavis, see Alexandros Rizos Rangavis Racoviță, also known as Racovitza, Romanian noble family from Moldavia and Wallachia. Rallet Ramalo Romalo Rosetti family, also known as Ruset or Russeti, Moldavian Boyar family of Byzantine and Genoan origins. Scanavis Schinas Sereslis Soutzos family, also known as Suțu, Sutzu or Sütçü, see Michael Soutzos. Tzanavarakis, also known Tzanavaris, Çanavaris or Canavaroğulları. Venturas Vlachoutzis Văcărescu family, Romanian boyars from Wallachia and the first poets in Romanian literature Vlastos, from Crete Ypsilantis, from Trebizond, see Alexander Ypsilantis and Demetrios Ypsilantis Extinct Phanariot families Aristarchis Ballasakis Cananos Caryophyles Dimakis Eupragiotes Iancoleos (della Rocca) Moronas Negris Paladas, from Crete Plaginos Rizos Neroulos Ramadan Souldjaroglou Tzoukes See also Ottoman Greeks Diafotismos Greeks in Romania Bulgarian Exarchate Early Modern Romania Danubian Principalities List of rulers of Moldavia List of rulers of Wallachia History of the Russo-Turkish wars State organisation of the Ottoman Empire Notes References Mihai Berza, "Haraciul Moldovei și al Țării Românești în sec. XV–XIX", in Studii și Materiale de Istorie Medie, II, 1957, p. 7–47 Alex Drace-Francis, The Making of Modern Romanian Culture, London - New York, 2006, Neagu Djuvara, Între Orient și Occident. Țările române la începutul epocii moderne, Humanitas, Bucharest, 1995 Vlad Georgescu, Istoria ideilor politice românești (1369-1878), Munich, 1987 Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Revolutions, section "Greek War of Independence" Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos (- Pavlos Karolidis), History of the Hellenic Nation (Volume Eb), Eleftheroudakis, Athens, 1925 L. S. Stavrianos, The Balkans Since 1453 Ottoman culture Christianity in the Ottoman Empire Demographics of the Ottoman Empire People from the Ottoman Empire by ethnic or national origin Government of the Ottoman Empire Greek diaspora History of Moldavia (1711–1822) History of Wallachia (1714–1821) Ottoman period in the Balkans Greece–Turkey relations Eastern Orthodox Christian culture