Yanko (Ioannis) Vithynos
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) - Cited: p. 32 (PDF p. 34) was an
Ottoman Greek statesman, who was the
Ottoman-appointed
Prince of Samos
The Principality of Samos ( el, Ηγεμονία της Σάμου, ; ota, Sisam İmâreti, script=Latn, italic=yes; tr, Sisam Beyliği) was an autonomous tributary state of the Ottoman Empire from 1834 to 1912. The island of Samos participated ...
from 1904 to 1906.
He wrote articles in Turkish for Ottoman Turkish publications,
[ as he knew that language well.]
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) - Cited: p. 31 (PDF p. 33)[ He, with Konstantinos Photiades,][ co-translated the '']Mecelle
The Mecelle was the civil code of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th century. It was the first attempt to codify a part of the Sharia-based law of an Islamic state.
Name
The Ottoman Turkish name of the code is ''Mecelle-ʾi Aá ...
'' into Greek, and he also wrote his commentary on the Ottoman Commercial Code (''Ticaret Kanunnamesi'').[
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Career
He was Governor of Crete from 1868-1875, before the Darülfünun made him an honorary professor. From 1882 to 1904 he also taught at the Mekteb-i Hukuk, an Ottoman law school. In 1901 he became a member of the Ottoman elections assembly.[
In addition he served in the Ottoman Ministry of Justice and the Constantinople ''tribunal de première instance'', as the director of criminal investigations and as a judge, respectively.]
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) - Cited: p. 32 (PDF p. 34)Prince of Samos
The Principality of Samos ( el, Ηγεμονία της Σάμου, ; ota, Sisam İmâreti, script=Latn, italic=yes; tr, Sisam Beyliği) was an autonomous tributary state of the Ottoman Empire from 1834 to 1912. The island of Samos participated ...
from 1904 to 1906.[ The political situation when his reign began was agitated. He made it even worse by repeating the same mistake as his predecessors: he supported only one political party. Embezzlements, thefts, murders, revenge and political factionalism were common during his reign. The parties accused each other through the press. In order to make things a little better, he imposed censorship on the press.
Then elections came and the two parties competed with each other in violence, mischief and illegal agitation. The newly elected Parliament blamed Vithynos for the politicians' mistakes and overthrew him.
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Princes of Samos
20th-century rulers in Europe
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