- Antioh Cantemir
Antioh Cantemir (d. 1726,
Golia Monastery ), son ofConstantin Cantemir and older brother ofDimitrie Cantemir (not to be confused withAntiokh Dmitrievich Kantemir , Dimitrie's son), was aMoldavia nVoivode (Prince) betweenDecember 18 1695 andSeptember 12 1700 , and again fromFebruary 23 1705 toJuly 31 1707 .Reigns
He and Dimitrie successfully plotted against Prince
Constantin Duca (who had obtained the throne, after having Dimitrie deposed by the Ottomans, with the backing ofConstantin Brâncoveanu , Prince ofWallachia ).Unlike his father, Antioh was not adverse to Poland; he also planned for an anti-Ottoman alliance with Russia (then under Peter the Great), one that was came to be during Dimitrie's rule - the full impact of Russia's growth had been felt after the 1699
Treaty of Karlowitz .Although Cantemir increased taxes (especially during his second reign), he was a popular figure, generally viewed as a just and kind ruler. In 1707, he established an
academy in his capitalIaşi , inspired by Chrysanthus, theOrthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem , but largely secular. [Djuvara, p.212]Notes
References
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Neagu Djuvara , "Între Orient şi Occident. Ţările române la începutul epocii moderne" ("Between Orient and Occident. The Romanian Lands at the beginning of the modern era"), Humanitas, Bucharest, 1995External links
* [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/balkan/cantemir.html Genealogy of the Cantemir family]
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