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Dionisie Fotino

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Dionisie Fotino (Greek: Dionysios Foteinos,[1] 1769–1821)[2] was a Wallachian historian and high ranking civil servant of Greek origin.[3]

Born in Patras, Fotinos (Photeinos, Gr. Φωτεινός ) hailed from the so-called Phanariote families within the Ottoman Empire. He moved to Wallachia in 1804.[2]

Fotino was one of the first scholars to propose a Daco-Roman ancestry for the Romanians by stating, in his History of Old Dacia of 1818, that "the Romans and Dacians, crossbreeding, created a distinct, mixed people" in Dacia Traiana province.[4]

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  1. ^ Ioannis Liakos; Sevi Mazera (2014). "Dionysios Foteinos: a Greek melourgos in Romania. Nektarios Vlachos: a Romanian melourgos on Mount Athos.Their enchanted Doxologies". Artes. Journal of Musicology. 14: 20–32.
  2. ^ a b "Fotino, Dionisie". www.dex.md.
  3. ^ Boia 2001, p. 86.
  4. ^ Georgescu 1991, p. 116.

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