Dionisie Fotino

Dionisie Fotino was a Romanian historian and high ranking civil servant of Greek origin.^[1] 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.^[2]

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

References

Sources

• Boia, Lucian (2001). History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness (Translated by James Christian Brown). CEU Press. ISBN 963-9116-96-3. 
• Georgescu, Vlad (1991). The Romanians: A History. Ohio State University Press. ISBN 0-8142-0511-9. 

• {{Istoria Generală a Daciei sau a Transilvaniei, Țerei Munteneșci și a Moldovei de Dionisie Fotino. Traducere din limba greacă de George Sion., Imprimeria Națională a lui Iosif Romanov et Companie, Bucureșci, 1859[1]}}

• Template:Istoria Generală a Daciei sau a Transilvaniei, Țării Muntenești și a Moldovei de Dionisie Fotino. Traducere din limba greacă de George Sion. Editura Valahia, 2008