#phanariots

• Anti-Greek — Manifesting, promoting, or containing prejudice, hostility, aversion, or hatred directed against the Greek people, Hellenic culture, or the Greek state; Hellenophobic. Historically, it describes social movements or polemical writings oriented toward limiting the economic monopoly of Greek factions.
• Body of mercenaries — A collective noun denoting the entire body of arnăuți (Albanian mercenaries or princely guards) present within a region, army, or in the service of a ruler in the Romanian Principalities. Figuratively or pejoratively, it refers to a group of brutal, unruly, or violent men.
• Arpalik — A historical and archaic Ottoman term denoting a special tax, fief, or allowance granted to pashas or high officials for horse fodder (barley/oats) or as a maintenance pension. In the Romanian Principalities, it circulated during the Phanariot era as a graphic variant of 'arpalîc'.
• To insult deeply — To deeply insult, humiliate, harass, or subject someone to an outrage; to extort or wrong a person by taking advantage of a position of authority. Historically used in the administrative or vernacular language of regions under Phanariot influence to describe the act of oppressing or imposing abusive taxes.
• Extorcated — Regarding people or entities: subjected to an outrage, deeply insulted, humiliated, harassed, or extorted by an oppressive authority. Regarding goods or sums: obtained abusively, through plunder, violence, or illegal tax impositions during the Ottoman or Phanariot administration.