Dionisie Fotino

Dionisie Fotino was a Romanian historian and high ranking civil servant of Greek origin. He is one of the first scholars to propose a Daco-Roman ancestry for the Romanians by stating, in his History of Old Dacia of 1818, that "the Romans and Dacians, crossbreeding, created a distinct, mixed people" in Dacia Traiana province.

Fotinos (Photeinos, Gr. Φωτεινός ) hailed from the so-called Phanariot families within the Ottoman Empire.

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