Ypsilanti
Ypsilanti names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Ypsilanti a Fanariot family claiming descent from the Comneni
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a Fanariot family claiming descent from the Comneni. Its most conspicuous members are: ALEXANDER, born 1725, a dragoman of the Porte, hospodar of Wallachia from 1774 to 1782, and again in 1790. He was carried prisoner to Brünn in 1792. Released, he returned to Constantinople, propounded a scheme for the fusion of the Greek and Turkish people, but having incurred the suspicion of the Porte, was executed in 1805. CONSTANTINE, his son, born in Constantinople, in 1760, early planned the freedom of Greece. His scheme was prematurely discovered, and he fled to Vienna. Pardoned by the Sultan, he was hospodar of Moldavia from 1799 till 1805, when he went to Russia, but returned to Bucharest with 20,000 men, again bent on freeing Greece. But the peace of Tilsit interrupting his plans, he returned to Russia, and died in Kiev, July 28, 1816. ALEXANDER, eldest son of the preceding, born in Constantinople, Dec. 12, 1792, followed his father to Russia, entered the army, and served with distinction in various campaigns. In March, 1821, he entered the Moldavia, and raised the standard of revolt among the Rumanians. Russia, however, frowned on his enterprise; the natives were apathetic, and he was defeated by the Turks at Dragaschen, near Galatz, June 19, 1821. He fled to Austria, and was interned at Munkacs, in Hungary. He died in Vienna, Jan. 31, 1828. DEMETRIOS, brother of the preceding, born Dec. 25, 1793, served in the Russian army, and in 1821 went to the Morea, where he played a brilliant part in the struggle. But, though a brave soldier and a successful general, as his victory at Tripolitza and his splendid defense of Argos show, his influence was constantly undermined by the "native" party, who never forgot that he was a Fanariot, and therefore half a foreigner. In 1827, however, he was made Commander-in-Chief of the Greek army, but the unhandsome treatment he received of romeovernment i Capo d'Istria 1830. He then withdrew from public affairs, and died in Vienna, Jan. 3, 1832.
Ypsilanti a city in Washtenaw co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city in Washtenaw co., Mich.; on the Huron river, and on the Michigan Central, and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroads; 30 miles W. of Detroit. Here are the Michigan State Normal School, St. John's Academy, business college, Ladies' Public Library, electric lights, waterworks, National and savings banks, and a number of weekly newspapers. The city has dress manufactories of condiments, stays, paper, woolen goods, etc., Pop. (1910) 6,230; (1920) 7,413.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The Ypsilantis family history stands as Collier's told it in 1921, and Greece marked the bicentenary of Alexander's 1821 crossing of the Pruth with national celebrations in 2021 reat his failed Moldavian rising as the opening act of the War of Independence rather than a fiasco. The Michigan city, by contrast, is unrecognisable: the 7,413 residents of 1920 have grown to about 20,600 in the 2020 census, and the "Michigan State Normal School" became Eastern Michigan University in 1959, a full university of some 13,000 students that now dominates the town. The corset and condiment works are long gone, replaced in the Second World War by the vast Willow Run bomber plant just east of the city, where B-24s were built on a moving assembly line, and afterwards by automotive plants. The Michigan Central line still runs through, but Amtrak's Wolverine no longer stops at Ypsilanti.
Written for this edition, 2026.