Tudor Vladimirescu

Tudor Vladimirescu is named in the Encyclopaedia of Islam only in its article on Wallachia, as the leader of the revolt of 1821 that ended the Phanariot regime in that principality. ¹ The sources read here give no dates of birth or death and no biography, so this page records his role and context only.

According to the article, the Phanariot regime in Wallachia ended in 1821 as a result of Vladimirescu's revolt. He acted at first in agreement with the Hetairia, the Greek secret society, but later turned against the Greeks, whom he regarded as the instruments of Ottoman domination. ¹ The Encyclopaedia elsewhere describes the Greek society as the Ethnike Hetairia, founded in Odessa in 1814 and later headed by Alexander Hypsilanti, which prepared Greek independence. ^{2 3} The bibliography of the Wallachia article lists a Romanian study of Vladimirescu and the Hetairist movement in Wallachia. ⁴

The Phanariots were Greek families of Istanbul from whom the Porte chose the princes of Wallachia and Moldavia from 1123/1711 to 1236/1821. ⁵ See the Phanariots and the principality of Wallachia. The article adds that the Treaty of Edirne in 1829 marked a new stage of Russian penetration into the Balkans while giving Wallachia complete freedom of trade, and that the country received its first constitution in 1834. ¹ See the Treaty of Edirne.

His origins, the course of the rising, and its end are not given in these sources and need others.