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Sturdza family

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Sturdza family coat of arms

The House of Sturdza, Sturza or Stourdza (Greek: Στούρτζα) is the name of an old Moldavian noble family of Phanariote Greek origin. Their origins can be traced back to the 1540s and whose members played important political role in the history of Moldavia, Russia and later Romania.

Origin

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The Sturdza were a family of Phanariote Greek origin and devoted much energy to the restoration of Greek independence.[1][2]

Political family

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The Sturdza family, a Moldavian princely family, has been long and intimately associated with the government first of Moldavia and afterwards of Romania. Its members belong to two main branches, which trace their descent from either Ioan Sturdza or Alexandru Sturdza, the sons of Chiriac Sturdza, who lived in the 17th century, and may be regarded as the founder of the family.[3] Members active in government:

The Sturdza Castle in Miclăușeni

Others

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References

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  1. ^ Bakhmetyeva, Tatyana V. (2017). Mother of the Church: Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France. Cornell University Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-60909-198-9. of Greek origin, the Sturdza family devoted much energy to the restoration of Greek independence, hoping to enlist the support of the [Russian] emperor to their cause
  2. ^ Lok, Matthijs; Pestel, Friedemann; Reboul, Juliette (2021). Cosmopolitan Conservatisms: Countering Revolution in Transnational Networks, Ideas and Movements (c. 1700‒1930). BRILL. p. 208. ISBN 978-90-04-44673-1. Roxandra Sturdza was of Greek Orthodox extraction from a Greek princely family of the Ottoman Empire, in exile and in Russian service.
  3. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainGaster, Moses (1911). "Sturdza". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1051.
  4. ^ Manea, Aureliu (2020). Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-07414-7.

3. Otu, Petre, Georgescu, Maria: Durchleuchtung eines Verrats. Der Fall des Oberst Alexandru D. Sturdza. Lektor Verlag. Hainburg. 2022.