Soutzos family

The Soutzos or Soutsos (Template:Lang-ro) is a Greek Phanariote family which grew into prominence and power in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) during the last centuries of Ottoman Empire and gave several short-reign hospodars to the Danubian Principalities, like Alexandros Soutzos, Mihai Suţu, and his nephew Michael Soutzos (Mihail Suţu). Significant members of the family include the two brother poets Panagiotis Soutsos and Alexandros Soutsos, of whom the first set the cornerstone for the revival of the Olympic Games and the latter was the founder of the Greek Romantic school of poetry. The main branch of the above family is found now in Athens, Greece. The family claims Byzantine roots, and there is reference to it in the Court of Constantine the Great.