It is not our intention to follow their example, for we believe that the government of the Greek hospodars was by no means an unmixed evil.
The hospodars who ruled at that time in Wallachia and Moldavia were Constantine Mavrocordato and Gregory Ghika.
The hospodars were then only a species of pacha; their court was formed after the pattern of those of the Byzantine emperors, but they did not possess the military power of the Turkish pachas.
The hospodars who occupied the thrones of Walachia and Moldavia were appointed by the court of Constantinople, who sold this dignity to the highest bidder.
These conventions or capitulations were not infrequently violated by the Turks as well as by the Roumanian Hospodars or Princes.
Besides this, many of these Hospodars were prejudiced against the introduction of reforms which could only endanger their own interests and positions.
With all these evils pressing down the unfortunate Wallachians and Moldavians, forced enlistment was resorted to; and the boyards who refused complicity with the treasonable hospodars were placed in the Russian ranks.
The principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia were to be confirmed in their rights; but the Hospodars were to be nominated only for life, and no Turks allowed to dwell there.
Her family had long furnished the Prince Hospodars of Wallachia, and though not a beautiful woman, she has every mark of the gentle blood of the east.
Wallachia, hospodars of, elected from seven families of Greek princes, ii.
Here reside the seven princes of the Greek nation, which formerly filled the office of hospodars of Wallachia and Moldavia, once the proud and the powerful, but now steeped in misery and humiliation.
Sebastiani, working on this, persuaded the Sultan, by way of retort to Russia, to depose the Hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia, on the ground that they were suspected of being pensioners of Russia.
The Czar treated this as a gross breach of the engagement entered into by the Porte, in 1802, under which the Hospodars of the two principalities were only to be removed from their posts with the consent of Russia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hospodars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
