Category talk:17th-century Moldavian people

17th-century Moldavian people

17th-century Moldavian people Note about 17th-century Moldavian people There is no Moldavian people until the creation of the Autonomous Socialist Soviet Moldovanian Republic on October 12th, 1924. This Soviet republic was created on a stripe of territory along the East bank of Dnister. Before 1812 [1], this territory was not directly administered by the rulling Princes and Voivodes [2] of Moldavia, but was only a buffer zone pf the medieval Roumanian Principality. As Wallachia (Rou., Valahia), Moldavia and Transsylvania [3] were the three sovereign Roumanian principalitiees, foundaed along the Northern bank of the Danube, the Black Sea shores and on the both sides of the Carpathian Monuntains - from Czech & Slovakia (Boemia and Moravia medieval Kingdoms) to the borders of Hungary and Poland. These three Central European Roumanian medieval states were created by the local population, mainly formed of Roumanians (Valah, Vlah, Vlach, Blacus, Blasi, Blacki, etc. - in different medieval European languages) sided by minorities as West Slavonic peoples, Medieval Germans (Saxons, Francs), Hungarians, Bulgarians (Turkic people, quickly Slavicized), medieval Greeks, maybe Albanians etc. Among the West Slavonic peoples were: Czechs & Slovaks, Polish, Ruthenians (Red Russians, and also White Russians), Croats & Serbians, etc.

Notes: [1] When Tsarist Russia occupied, by briebery, the East half of the Principality of Moldavia (Rou., Moldova), further on called Beasarabia (Rou., Basarabia). The name of the Principality of Moldova (medieval Latin, Moldavia) comes from the Moldova Creek, baptized after Molda, the loyal female dog of one of the founders of the Principality: Dragoș Vodă. All the inhabitants named themselves „Roumanians” or „Moldavians”, identified their language as „Roumanian” (Rou., rumână, rumânește); the last name (Moldavians) was not an ethnonym, but was, in fact, as a distintive personal label as (mediaval) citizens of the Moldova Realm. Furthermore, it must be noted that the earliest nucleus of the Moldova Principality was Țara Șepenițului (Rou.), covering the area between the Hotin Fortress and the Storojineț Fortress and town - now, both of them, incoroprated in Ukraine, as a result of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Treaty (1939). [2] The rulling Princes of the three Roumanian Principalities were styled as follows: - all rulling princes had to be borned Voievod / Voivod or to have held this high military dignity i.e. commander-in-chief of all the army (not supreme, this was the apange of the rulling Prince = Domn, Mare Domn) - all the rulling princes were elected (military medieval democracy) among the living active Voievodes, and only from very few families - Wallachian and Moldavian Principalities: their rulling rpinces bored the title „IO (the name of the Prince) Mare Domn și Voievod al (of)”, where „IO” it is a sacred acronym – from Saint John the Baptist - of Roman-Byzantine tradition; all the Christian Emperors of the Roman Empire (Eastern, Byzantine) and many of the Western Empire, bored this name - a rulling prince was styled Domn (from Lat., Dominus) or Mare Domn (Great Prince), bearing a complex name-title: † În Hristos Dumnezeu, binecredinciosul și de Hristos iubitorul și singur stăpânitorul, IO Mircea, Mare Domn și Voievod a toată Țara Românească de lângă Ungaria (Zemlia Ungrovlahiceskoie) şi a Părţilor de peste munţi, încă și către Părțile tătărești și Amlașului și Făgărașului Herțeg, Domn al Banatului Severinului și de amândouă părțile peste toată Podunavia, singur stăpânitor al Cetății Dârstorului și Despot peste toate țările lui Dobrotici până la Marea cea Mare. The ealiest known such title belonged to IO Vladislav (Vlaicu or Laic or Lațcu), Mare Domn și Voievod, dates back to 1367/68 and it is written above his votiv portrait, on the western wall of the Church Sf. Nicolae Domnesc, Curtea de Argeș - ex-capital of The Principality of Wallachia - România Zemlia = (The) Land, Country, meaning (The) Realm of Ungro-Vlahia or Moldo-Vlahia – Transsylvania or Siebenbürgen (medv. German/Saxon i.e. Seven Castles / Towns): the first known rulling princes (Menumorut, Gelu, Glad, Ahtum etc – IX/X-XIth centuries) it is still not known what title they bore. Later Voievodes and Princes of Transsylvania bored both titles – Voievoda et Princeps Transsylvaniae (Lat.) – adding the most illustrious title of King of Hungary (after the defeat of the Hungarian army led by King Lajos II Jagiello (who died in battle), at Mohacs, 1526 and the capture of the royal capital-town of Buda, 1541). The Transsylvanian rulling princes used this tile until 1686. In early times, the territory of Transsylvania, was, very probably, divided into seven voievodate (Rou., i.e. principalities), following an acient tradition, before the Roman conquest (106 A.D.). all of these Voievodate are known: Maramureș (and probably Ung)- permannt capital not known, one of the most important citiesare Sătmar i.e. Satu Mare, Sighetu Marmației or Ung (now in Ukraine) Bihor: Voievod (Dux) Mennumorut - on both sides of the Romanian-Hungarian border; capital at Biharia, near Oradea Mare) Alba Iulia: „ „ „ Gelu (Gelou, Gyla, Gyula) - capital at Bălgrad i.e. The White City/Fortress, then Alba Iulia - ancient Apulum - Romania The Voievodship of Abrud and Zarand (Munții Apuseni = The Occidental Carpathian Mts.): also known as „The Golden Land” - capitals, Abrud, Zlatna, etc The Voievodship/Duchy of Ahtum: on both sides of the Romanian-Hungarian border; „ „ Ahtum - capital Morisena (actually Cenad), Romania The Duchy of Amlaș and Făgăraș - capitals, Făgăraș, Streza (Streza-Cârțișoara), etc. From Făgăraș and Voievodenii Mari started his journey Negru Vodă (around 1215 or 1290) to found the Realm of Țara Românească (Wallachia) The Duchy of Kean: covered aproximately the territory between Făgpraș-Brașov, the actual districts Covasna, Harghita, partiallly Mureș and Bistrița-Năsăud - capital maybe Sf. Gheorghe

[3] The three Northern Roumanian Principalities have been under different political influences,during the centuries their sovereignity beeing sinous. It must be mentioned that South of the Danube were other Roumanian Principalities, characterised by different autonomous rights. As such was Megali Valachia (Rou., Marea Valahie) in Thessaly, in the actual Greek territory (documented around 998-1001), The Timoc Land, a local voivodship - assimilated to a Duchy - identified with Podunavia on the both banks of the Timoc River (flowing between the actual republics of Bulgaria and Serbia) - until Vidin, The Târnova (Bulg., Tîrnovo) Land - around the city with the same name, in actual Bulgaria - or The Cărvunia Despotate also known as The Dobrotich Despotate (Principality) - between the Danube and the Black Sea Coast (Cavarna fortress as capital), etc. The Târnova Land became the centre of the Roumanians (Vlachs) and Bulgarians revolt against Isaac II Angelos, Emperor of the Romaios (Romans = East Romans i.e. Byzantines) during the autumn of 1185 (the flag of the uprising was officially eaised during the great feast of the Great Martyr Saint Demetrius (Rou., Dimitrie, Dumitru), in front the church dedicated to this saint, reconstructd by the leaders of the Vlachs, brothers Petru (Peter) and Asan (meaning „beautiful, handsome”, name of Turkic origin but equivalent to the Roumanian name, Mușat (masc.), -ta (fem.) and to the Slavonic one, Ghizdavăț). To the Romanians and Bulgarians revolt, sided also the Coumans, very powerful military and politically, beeing connected to their bretherns which were granted lands (Little & Great Coumania), by the Kings of Hungary, in the Temesvar (Rou., Timișoara) Banat and along the West bank of the Tisza River (Hungary).

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