Fener
Fener (also Phanar or Fanar , Greek : Φανάριον / Phanarion , Φανάρι / Phanari ) is a district in the Fatih district of the Turkish city of Istanbul .
After Constantinople was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453, the upper class of the Greek population moved to the Fener district. Since the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople also moved to this city district, the leadership of the Patriarchate is also referred to as Phanar .
Around 1600, the then Patriarch Matthew II of Constantinople elevated the St. George's Church, which was then part of a monastery, to the cathedral of the Ecumenical Patriarchate . The Bulgarian Orthodox Church of St. Stephen and the Greek Fener College , where not only the offspring of the Greek and Bulgarian Phanariotes were trained, are also located in the district.
In the last few decades, Fener has primarily become a residential area for immigrants from Anatolia and therefore a center of Sunni Islam .
Phanariotes
The term Phanariotes is understood - especially in the countries of the former Ottoman Empire in the Balkans - to mean a small circle of wealthy and politically influential Byzantine noble families who lived in the Ottoman Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries. Century formed the upper class in Phanar.
Between 1711 and 1821 Phanariotes were appointed Gospodars of Wallachia and Moldova by the Sultan , took over important posts in the army and government and were sometimes active as ambassadors in European countries. Some Phanariots participated in the Greek struggles for freedom in the 1820s .
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Coordinates: 41 ° 2 ′ N , 28 ° 57 ′ E