Y
y
,
adv. and conj. pr.
there, to or at or in it, to or at or in them, about it, to him, etc., here.
ya
,
adv.
yes (German).
yatagan
,
m.
yataghan (long Turkish dagger).
yeux
,
see
oeil
.
Ypsilanti (Alexandre)
, Alexander Ypsilanti (or Hypsilanti), a Greek who became an officer in
the Russian army; in 1820 he became the head of the Greek Hetreria, a secret society
founded in Odessa for the purpose of liberating Greece from the Turks, and in 1821 he led an
insurrection against the Turks in the Danube provinces and inaugurated the Greek war for
independence; after a number of mistakes (
cf. the déroute de Skouliani
) and humiliating
defeats, and after having been dismissed from the Russian army, he died in poverty
(1792-1828).