NameTselebis Ioannis ‘Ianko’ (Zarifis) Zarifi, Son
Birth1780, Megalo Rheuma
MemoAnother source says ca. 1770
Deathca 1850, Prinkipos, Sea of Marmara
MemoSoon after 1850 according to George L. Zarifi.
BurialChurch of the Panagia, Pera, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium
ResidenceArnaout-Keuï (Megalo Rema), Bosphorus, Turkey
ResidencePhanar, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium
OccupationTraded in wine in Odessa and Constantinople.
Note 1Tselebis/Tselebi/Tchelebi is the Turkish title of the son (or grandson?) of a Bey and of the great grandson of a Hospodar. In the later Ottoman period Tselebis was generally used as an honorific title. According to George L Zarifi Ianko was an only child
Note 2He built two homes for his family: at Phanar and Megalo Rema (today Arnaoutkoi). In 1821, as a financial supporter of the Philiki Etairia, he fled Constantinople for Odessa, with family and friends in a chartered ship, where Tsar Alexander l welcomed him.
Note 3He owned vineyards on the island of Avlonia (today Pachalimani) along the coast of the Cyzique peninsula in the Sea of Marmara, established himself as a wine merchant first at Arnaoutkeuy (Arnavutkoy) on the Bosphorus and then at Phanar in Constantinople.
Note 4Left Constantinople in the Greek exodus the day after it was clear that his name was known to be on a list of secret financial backers of the Philiki Eteriae. Found a caïque at Galata port bound for Odessa and the family left with what they could carry.
Flags***, Zarifi
FatherGeorge ZARIFI (1750-?)
MotherSultana ‘Sultanitsa’ [Zarifi] (?-?)