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Image: John George Caradja's seal, 1818

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Description: Seal of the Wallachian Phanariote ruler John George Caradja, combining the eagle of Wallachia with the unicorns of his family crest. From the original, possibly engraved by Blasius Höfel and published with Caradja's portrait on the title page of his civil code (Legiurea Caragea), in 1818; see George Oprescu, Grafica românească în secolul al XIX-lea, Vol. I. Bucharest: Fundația Regală pentru Literatură și Artă, 1942. Lettering, combining (Romanian) Cyrillic and Greek, reads IΩ ГP KP ВВ, for "John George Caradja Voivode".
Title: John George Caradja's seal, 1818
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Author: Dahn
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