The Greek dragoman elite remained loyal to the Ottoman state

Evidence

On the Ottoman side, the end came with the Greek war of independence. The last of the Greek grand dragomans, Stavraki Aristarchi, was hanged in 1821 on suspicion of complicity with the rebels. I have no idea whether the suspicion was well grounded or not; I am inclined to think not. The Phanariot bureaucratic families showed very little sympathy with the rebels; they had a long record of attachment to the Ottoman state which continued even after these events. Indeed, as late as 1840, the first Ottoman envoy to independent Athens was a Phanariot Greek, Kostaki Musurus, later Ottoman ambassador in London. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 186

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the tidy nationalist reading: Phanariot families sided with the Ottoman state over the Greek independence cause that would eventually provide the pretext for their removal from power — echoes of intermediary communities whose loyalty gets misread. — connects to: The Greek grand dragoman was hanged though Phanariots stayed loyal to the Ottomans