hospodar
a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldova.
Origin of hospodar
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How to use hospodar in a sentence
The death of Elena in 1505, and of the hospodar a year earlier, left the youth Dimitri in a forlorn and friendless condition.
The Rise of the Russian Empire | Hector H. MunroHe is (I believe at this time) the secretary to Milosh, the hospodar of Servia.
Servian Popular Poetry | John BowringHe was succeeded as grand dragoman by his son John (Ioannes), who was for a short while hospodar of Moldavia, and died in 1720.
Russia merely reserved to herself the appointment of the first hospodar of each principality.
The Political History of England - Vol XI | George BrodrickSutsos, the hospodar, at once handed over all the apparatus of government, and supplied the insurgents with a large sum of money.
History of Modern Europe 1972-1878 | C. A. Fyffe
British Dictionary definitions for hospodar
/ (ˈhɒspəˌdɑː) /
(formerly) the governor or prince of Moldavia or Wallachia under Ottoman rule
Origin of hospodar
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