Alexander Ypsilantis
Also known as Alexandros Ypsilantis
Greek general (1792-1828)
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1926-06-30
- Active to
- 2011-02-12
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Discography
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Alexandros Ypsilantis (12 December 1792 – 31 January 1828) 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.
Early life