Governing Ottomans: Phanariot Christians in Old Regimes and New

Phanariots were a clique of Orthodox Christians that rose to an array of positions of power in Ottoman governance from the late 17th to the  early 19th century. Here I present the rise of this elite in the  framework of the Ottoman-Russian rivalry, shifting  structures/institutions of Ottoman governance, and the internal  dilemmas of ruling a multi-confessional empire in the 18th century.