Sina family

The Sina or Sinas family was a prominent banking family in the Austrian Empire, ennobled with the title of Barons of Hodos and Kisdia. For less than a century, they were among the wealthiest and most economically influential dynasties in the empire, being the fiercest competitors of the Rothschild family. The Sina family was also the only Christian family among the leading banking houses of imperial Austria.

The daughters of the last male Sina married into old Romanian noble families, while his father had married a member of the Ghika family. All male successors bore the name "Simon" in the first or second position for three consecutive generations. The Sina family financially supported the Greek, Hungarian and Romanian national movements.

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