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HALL OF THE ADJUTANTS
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Portrait of Dimitrios Ypsilantis
illustration in the edition of Julius Curtius,
Geschichte der Neu-Griechen von der Eroberung Konstantinopels bis auf die neuesten Zeiten, Viertes Bändchen enthaltend: den Ausbruch der Insurrection inn Morea, Nordgriechenland und auf den Inseln des Archipels im Jahre 1821; bis auf den Tod Ali- Pascha’s, die Eroberungen von Navarin, und Napoli di Malvasia und die Verbrennung von Galaxidi.
Leipzig: Ludwig Derbig. 1829.
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A LITHOGRAPHED PORTRAIT of Dimi- trios Ypsilantis, in profile, in full military attire. His facial traits resemble those of Alexander, his elder brother. This is the frontispiece of volume IV – the
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first volume had been published in 1827 – of Julius Curtius’ Modern Greek history of the events after the proclamation of the Revolution.
Statute of the Legislative for the organization of the military operations
in Eastern and Western Continental Greece. Demetrios Ypsilantis signs as President of the Body
(Argos, 7 June 1822)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 1, no 111 [p. 111] Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THE ELECTION OF DIMITRIOS YPSI- LANTIS as president of the Legislative in the 1st National Assembly signified in actual fact the attempt to sideline him on the part of the notables and the Phanariots. In the same National Assembly, the most important political office of the new ad- ministration, that of the president of the Executive,
was assigned to Alexandros Mavrokordatos, who at the same time succeeded in having Theodoros Negris, his then faithful collaborator, appointed to the key position of chief-secretary of the State, and Ioannis Kolettis, a political supporter of his, too, to the post of the Minister of Internal Affairs and War.
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