A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.
Bojar] A member of the military landed aristocracy in Bulgaria. The term was also used in Russia. (Fine, John V.A. Jr. The Late Medieval Balkans, 622)
a member of the aristocracy in Wallachia and Moldavia
A category of nobleman, usually of high rank. In Muscovy of the 16th and 17th centuries, the boyars formed the highest rank of the aristocracy, and had the right to advise the tsar in a duma, or advisory group.
(bojar): term used for the military landed aristocracy in Bulgaria, Kievan Rus and later the Muscovite State.
A boyar (also spelled bojar) was a member of the highest rank of the feudal Russian, Romanian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian aristocracy, second only to the ruling princes, from the 10th through the 17th century.