Ypsilantis

Ypsilanti (female and male accusative ) and Ypsilanti ( nominative masculine; Greek Υψηλάντη [ ς ], today's debate Ipsilándi [s ] ) is a Greek- phanariotischer family name.

Origin and Meaning

The Ypsilanti are a major Greek phanariotische family ( Phanar = official seat of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople Opel and until the mid- 1950s, inhabited mainly by Greeks district to patriarchy ), originally from Trabzon (Turkish Trabzon ) comes, later mainly was resident in Constantinople Opel and its members held high offices of state, both in the Ottoman Empire as well as in independent Greece.

Well-known bearers of the name

• Alexander Ypsilanti (1725-1807), Greek dragoman, voivode of Wallachia and Moldavia
• Alexander Ypsilanti (1792-1828), a Greek military commander
• Andrea Ypsilanti ( née Dill, born 1957 ), German politician (SPD ), was married to Manolis ( Emmanuel ) Ypsilanti
• Demetrius Ypsilanti, (1793-1832), general in the Greek War of Independence against the Turks, named after the city of Ypsilanti (Michigan)
• Georg Ypsilanti, ( born 1950 ), a Greek- Austrian artists
• Constantine Ypsilanti (1760-1816), Prince of Wallachia
• Miljeva Ypsilanti (1917-2013), Austrian physician and Kunstfördererin
• Thomas Ypsilanti (1909-1966), Greek diplomat
• Thomas Ypsilanti (1928-2000), American physicist