Antioh Cantemir (4 December 1670 – 1726), better known in English by the
anglicized
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form Antioch Cantemir, was a
Moldavia
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n
noble
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who ruled as
voivode of Moldavia
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(18 December 1695 – 12 September 1700 and 23 February 1705 – 31 July 1707).
Life
Antioch was born into a
noble
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Moldavia
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n family of
Tatar
The Tatars ()[Tatar]
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different origin. His illiterate father
Constantin had been made
voivode of Moldavia
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by the
Ottomans in 1685. Constantin ensured his sons had a good education and, upon his death, Antioch's younger brother
Demetrius
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Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro, Dimitri, Dimitrie, Dimitar, Dumi ...
notionally succeeded him. He was swiftly passed over by the
Ottomans, however, in favor of
Constantin Duca, who was supported by his father-in-law, the
Wallachian voivode
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Constantin Brâncoveanu
Constantin Brâncoveanu (; 1654 – August 15, 1714) was Prince of Wallachia between 1688 and 1714.
Biography
Ascension
A descendant of the Craiovești boyar family and heir through his grandfather Preda of a considerable part of Matei Ba ...
.
Duca was deposed after two years for late payments of tribute and for having executed an inspecting ''
kapucu''. Antioch began to rule but was eventually deposed through the machinations of the Wallachian voivode. Upon the return of Duca, the Cantemirs fled the country, returning to resume rule after Duca again fell into disgrace and lost
Brâncoveanu's friendship. Antioch's second period of rule was preceded and followed by voivodeships of his brother-in-law
Mihai Racoviță.
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Unlike his father, Antioch did not oppose the interests of Poland
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. He also laid the groundwork for his brother's anti-Turkish alliance with Peter the Great's Russian Empire, which began expanding southward following the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz. Despite Cantemir's high taxes, particularly during his second reign, he was a broadly popular figure and viewed as a just and kind ruler. Inspired by Chrysanthus of Jerusalem, Chrysanthus, the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, he established the Princely Academy, Iaşi, Princely Academy in his capital Iaşi in 1707.
He died in 1726 at Golia Monastery.
See also
* Cantemir dynasty
Notes
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Year of birth missing
Rulers of Moldavia
Cantemirești family, Antioh
1726 deaths