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Callimachi family

Callimachi, Calimachi, or Kallimachi (originally Calmaşul or Călmaşu) was a Moldavian-Greek Phanariote boyar and princely family, originating with a group of free peasants living in the Orhei area of Bessarabia. It still remains present today in modern Romania.

Members

  • Vasile Călmaşul: b. 1640, Landowner in Bucovina
  • Teodor Călmaşul: (1660–1740) vornic (headman) of Câmpulung, father of Ioan and Gavriil
  • Ioan Teodor Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1758-1761
  • Gavriil Callimachi: Orthodox monk, Mitropolite of Moldavia ?-1786
  • Grigore Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1761-1764; 1767-1769
  • Alexandru Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1795-1799
  • Scarlat Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1806; de jure only, under Imperial Russian occupation, 1807-1810; 1812-1819); Prince of Wallachia, 1821 de jure only - prevented from reaching his throne by Vladimirescu's Pandur uprising
  • Alexandros Kallimachis: Ottoman diplomat, governor of Samos Island 1850-1854
  • Scarlat Callimachi: communist activist
  • Andrew Calimach: author
  • Rukmini Maria Callimachi journalist

    • References

    Callimachi family Wikipedia
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