John II Mavrocordatos (12 March 1712 – 29 July 1747) was a

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who served as

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from 1743 to 1747.

Life

Younger son of Nicholas Mavrocordatos, he remained in the shadow of his elder brother,

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. He replaced the latter in Moldavia on the occasion of one of his many changes of office as

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from July 1743 to May 1747. John II Mavrocordatos married successively Maria Giuliano and Sultana Mano, of whom he had: * Alexander II Mavrocordatos, surnamed "Firaris" (1754–1819), Grand Dragoman of the Porte, then Hospodar of Moldavia and finally a Prince of the Russian Empire.

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''Histoire des Roumains de la Dacie trajane : Depuis les origines jusqu'à l'union des principautés''. E Leroux Paris (1896). * Alexandre A.C. Sturdza ''L'Europe Orientale et le rôle historique des Maurocordato (1660–1830)'' Librairie Plon Paris (1913) p. 130-221. *

Nicolas Iorga Nicolae Iorga (; sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga;Iova, p. xxvii. 17 January 1871 – 27 November 1940) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, Albanologist, poet ...

''Histoire des Roumains et de la romanité orientale''. (1920) * Constantin C. Giurescu & Dinu C. Giurescu, ''Istoria Românilor'' Volume III (depuis 1606), Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, București, 1977. * Mihail Dimitri Sturdza, ''Dictionnaire historique et généalogique des grandes familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople'', M.-D. Sturdza, Paris, chez l'auteur, 1983 . * Jean-Michel Cantacuzène, ''Mille ans dans les Balkans'', Éditions Christian, Paris, 1992. * Gilles Veinstein, ''Les Ottomans et la mort'' (1996) . * Joëlle Dalegre ''Grecs et Ottomans 1453-1923. De la chute de Constantinople à la fin de l'Empire Ottoman'', L'Harmattan Paris (2002) . * Jean Nouzille ''La Moldavie, Histoire tragique d'une région européenne'', Ed. Bieler (2004), . * Traian Sandu, ''Histoire de la Roumanie'', Perrin (2008). Rulers of Moldavia

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