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==Resistance against the Ottoman Empire== [[Image:ConstantinIpsilanti1805.png|thumb|right|180px|Ypsilantis Coat of Arms (1805)]] Ypsilantis had joined in a conspiracy to liberate [[Ottoman Greece|Greece]] and, on its discovery, fled to [[Vienna]], had been pardoned by the sultan and in 1799 appointed by him [[hospodar]] of [[Moldavia]]. Deposed in 1805, he escaped to [[St Petersburg]], and in 1806, at the head of some 20,000 [[Russians]], returned to [[Bucharest]], where he set to work on a fresh attempt to liberate Greece.
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