The House of Phanar is a European royal dynasty in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition - Knights of the Mediterranean. Like all minor civilizations, they can be allied with by building a Trading Post or Tambo at their Trading Post site.
Units[]
Evzone: Greek Skirmisher with high hitpoints that is particularly strong against Heavy Infantry.- Boyar: Heavy Hand Cavalry from Wallachia with good siege attack.
- Sacred Band Infantry: Revolutionary Greek musketeer that is stronger in groups. Good against cavalry.
Technologies[]
| Age | Technology | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
 |
 Armatoloi
|
200 wood 200 coin |
Ranged infantry damage +5%; Evzone damage +15% instead |
 Athos Monasteries
|
340 wood | Delivers 2 Athos Monastery Wagons; enables Priests, Imams, Healers, Warrior Priests, Abuns, Priestesses, and Griots to be trained at Athos Monasteries; enables Catharsis, Phanarion, and Filiki Eteria | |
 Byzantine Legacy
|
125 wood 125 coin |
Building and ship hit points +15% | |
 Greek Shipyards
|
300 wood 300 coin |
Dock and Port training and research work rate +40%; Battleship build limit +1 |
Athos Monastery Technologies[]
- Main article: Athos Monastery
Royal House ability[]
- Greek Revolution: Spawns more Sacred Band Infantry the longer the player waits (up to 20 maximum), and improves villager in combat for 120 seconds based on the current Age. Similar to the Canada revolution, the ability temporarily sets villagers' base ranged attack damage to a much higher amount, and starting in the Fortress Age it also improves their hit points.
Villager Bonuses[]
| Age | Base Ranged Damage | Hit Point Bonus |
|---|---|---|
 |
+12 | – |
 |
+14.5 | +20% |
 |
+18 | +50% |
 |
+22 | +100% |
Strategy[]
The House of Phanar helps in naval combat to strengthen buildings and infantry from a distance.
Greek Shipyards improves the work rate of Docks/Ports by 40% and increases the Battleship training limit by 1, while Byzantine Legacy gives all war ships and buildings +15% hit points. The Athos Monasteries technology allows the player to build two Athos Monasteries that can create healing units and research additional technologies. Armatoloi improves the damage of all ranged infantry by 5%, except the Evzone (a Skirmisher with low damage that has a greater bonus damage against heavy infantry and many hit points), which gets +15% damage.
The Boyar is a cavalry with many hit points and a fast attack speed for both siege and hand, and is especially lethal against artillery. The Sacred Band Infantry is a Musketeer with few hit points and that costs population, but can be created in large quantities. It has a fast firing speed and gains additional hit points the more of them are close to each other. The royal house ability Greek Revolution also strengthens villagers, giving them more hit points and damage as the player ages.
In-game dialogue language[]
Evzones and Sacred Band Infantry speak Greek. Boyars speak Romanian.
Greek (Evzone and Sacred Band Infantry):
- Select 1 στόχοι [stóchoi] - Targets?
- Select 2 καλήν ημέρα [kaliméra] - Good day!
- Select 3 διαταγάς [diatagás] - Orders?
- Select 4 στο γελέκι [sto gheléki] - On the vest
- Move 1 μάλιστα [málista] - Right
- Move 2 ναι [nai] - Yes
- Move 3 άντες άντες [ántes ántes] - Come on guys
- Move 4 Λαμπρήν ιδέα [lamprín idéa] - Brilliant idea
- Attack 1 Γιουρούσ' [Giouroús] - Charge
- Attack 2 μην αφήκετε κανέναν ζωντανό [min afíkete kanénan zontanó] - Leave no one alive
- Attack 3 Δια την ελευθερίαν [dia tin eleftherían] - For freedom
- Attack 4 Ρημάξτε τον δυνάστη [Rimáxte ton dynásti] - Destroy the tyrant
Romanian (Boyar):
- Select 1: Care sunt țintele mele? - What are my targets?
- Select 2: Da? (Yes?)
- Select 3: Noi ordine? - New orders?
- Move 1: Așa voi face! - That's what I'll do!
- Move 2: Da (Yes)
- Move 3: Mai repede! - Faster!
- Attack 1: Atac! (Attack!)
- Attack 2: Atac! (Attack!)
- Attack 3: Până la moarte! - To the death!(Until my death!)
History[]
| “ | Following the Ottoman conquest of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, the noble families of Phanar, known collectively as the Phanariotes, became the preeminent liaisons between the Turkish sultan and his Greek subjects. Originating from the culturally preeminent Fener district of Constantinople, the Phanariotes exploited the inner-workings of the Ottoman establishment to inherit some of its most prominent posts. Many Phanariote families such as the Ghicas and Mavrocordatos sought governorships throughout the relatively autonomous realms of Wallachia and Moldavia, where they collected taxes and expanded their political clout. Highly educated and politically flexible, the Phanariotes were instrumental in the Ottomans' negotiations with European powers and played a key role in establishing contact between Western Europe and the Ottomans' Christian subjects. By the time of the Greek Revolution, they had developed extensive connections with the British, Russians, and French, which came to influence Greek politics following the decline of Ottoman hegemony. The Phanariote major general Alexander Ypsilantis, a key proponent of the Greek Revolution, became one of Russia's leading officers during the Napoleonic Wars. |
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| —[1] | ||
The Houses of Phanar or Phanariots were members of prominent Greek families in Phanar (Φανάρι, modern Fener), the chief Greek quarter of Constantinople where the Ecumenical Patriarchate is located, who traditionally occupied four important positions in the Ottoman Empire: Voivode of Moldavia, Voivode of Wallachia, Grand Dragoman, and Grand Dragoman of the Fleet. Despite their cosmopolitanism and often-Western education, the Phanariots were aware of their Greek ancestry and culture; according to Nicholas Mavrocordatos' Philotheou Parerga, "We are a race completely Hellenic". They emerged as a class of wealthy Greek merchants (of mostly noble Byzantine descent) during the second half of the 16th century, and were influential in the administration of the Ottoman Empire's Balkan domains (Greece,Moldavia and Wallachia) in the 18th century. The Phanariots usually built their houses in the Phanar quarter to be near the court of the Patriarch, who (under the Ottoman millet system) was recognized as the spiritual and secular head (millet-bashi) of the Orthodox subjects—the Rum Millet, or "Roman nation" of the empire, except those under the spiritual care of the Patriarchs of Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Ohrid and Peć—often acting as archontes of the Ecumenical See. They dominated the administration of the patriarchate, often intervening in the selection of hierarchs (including the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople).
Some Phanariote families descend from several Byzantine imperial dynasties: Angelos, Argyropoulos, Kantakouzenos, Komnenos, and Dukas, who reigned between 1028 and 1204.
Trivia[]
- Unlike the other Royal Houses, Phanar represents a group of noble families instead of just one dynasty. They are therefore referred to as the Houses of Phanar in-game, although they are still referred to in the singular form House of Phanar in the Compendium.
- The Greek Revolution ability's activation sound is an excerpt from the instrumental version of Hymn to Liberty which is the National Anthem of Greece.
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