Mircea the Shepherd, the Glossary
Mircea the Shepherd (Mircea Ciobanul, d. 25 September 1559), was the Voivode (or Prince) of Wallachia three times: January 1545 (he entered Bucharest on 17 March)–16 November 1552; May 1553–28 February 1554 (leaving Bucharest that March); and January 1558–21 September 1559.[1]
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41 relations: Alexandru Lăpușneanu, Boyar, Brașov, Bucharest, Curtea Veche, Curtea Veche Church, Doamna Chiajna, Eastern Orthodox Church, Giurgiu, Habsburg monarchy, History of Bucharest, Holy Roman Empire, House of Drăculești, Istanbul, Kingdom of Hungary, List of monarchs of Moldavia, List of princes of Wallachia, Logothete, Mănești, Prahova, Mercenary, Moldavia, Ottoman dynasty, Ottoman Empire, Pătrașcu the Good, Peter the Younger, Petru Rareș, Postelnic, Radu Ilie Haidăul, Radu IV the Great, Radu Paisie, Slătioara, Vâlcea, Southern Carpathians, Spatharios, Stolnic, Suleiman the Magnificent, Suzerainty, Székelys, Transylvania, Vâlcea County, Vornic, Wallachia.
- 16th-century Romanian people
- House of Drăculești
Alexandru Lăpușneanu
Alexandru IV Lăpușneanu (1499 – 5 May 1568) was Ruler of Moldavia between September 1552 and 18 November 1561 and then between October 1564 and 5 May 1568.
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Boyar
A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Bulgaria, Kievan Rus' (and later Russia), Moldavia and Wallachia (and later Romania), Lithuania and among Baltic Germans.
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Brașov
Brașov (Kronstadt, also Brasau; Brassó; Corona; Transylvanian Saxon: Kruhnen) is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the county seat (i.e. administrative centre) of Brașov County.
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Bucharest
Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania.
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Curtea Veche
Curtea Veche (the Old Princely Court) was built as a palace or residence during the rule of Vlad III Dracula in 1459.
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Curtea Veche Church
The Curtea Veche Church (Biserica Curtea Veche) is a Romanian Orthodox church located at 33 Franceză Street in the Lipscani quarter of Bucharest, Romania.
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Doamna Chiajna
Doamna Chiajna (1525–1588) was a Princess consort of Wallachia. Mircea the Shepherd and Doamna Chiajna are 16th-century Romanian people.
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Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
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Giurgiu
Giurgiu (Gyurgevo) is a city in southern Romania.
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Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg.
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History of Bucharest
The history of Bucharest covers the time from the early settlements on the locality's territory (and that of the surrounding area in Ilfov County) until its modern existence as a city, capital of Wallachia, and present-day capital of Romania.
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Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.
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House of Drăculești
The House of Drăculești were one of two major rival lines of Wallachian voivodes of the House of Basarab, the other being the House of Dănești. Mircea the Shepherd and House of Drăculești are princes of Wallachia.
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Istanbul
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.
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Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century.
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List of monarchs of Moldavia
This is a list of monarchs of Moldavia, from the first mention of the medieval polity east of the Carpathians and until its disestablishment in 1862, when it united with Wallachia, the other Danubian Principality, to form the modern-day state of Romania.
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List of princes of Wallachia
This is a list of princes of Wallachia, from the first mention of a medieval polity situated between the Southern Carpathians and the Danube until the union with Moldavia in 1859, which led to the creation of Romania. Mircea the Shepherd and list of princes of Wallachia are House of Drăculești and princes of Wallachia.
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Logothete
Logothete (λογοθέτης, logothétēs, pl. λογοθέται, logothétai; Med. logotheta, pl. logothetae; логотет; logoteta; logofăt; логотет, logotet) was an administrative title originating in the eastern Roman Empire.
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Mănești, Prahova
Mănești is a commune in Prahova County, Muntenia, Romania.
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Mercenary
A mercenary, also called a merc, soldier of fortune, or hired gun, is a private individual who joins an armed conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military.
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Moldavia
Moldavia (Moldova, or Țara Moldovei, literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: Молдова or Цара Мѡлдовєй) is a historical region and former principality in Central and Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River.
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Ottoman dynasty
The Ottoman dynasty (Osmanlı Hanedanı) consisted of the members of the imperial House of Osman (Ḫānedān-ı Āl-i ʿOsmān), also known as the Ottomans (Osmanlılar).
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
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Pătrașcu the Good
Pătrașcu the Good (Pătrașcu cel Bun), (? – 24 December 1557) was a ruler of the principality of Wallachia, between 1554 and 24 December 1557, one of many rulers of Wallachia during the 16th century. Mircea the Shepherd and Pătrașcu the Good are 16th-century Romanian people, 16th-century monarchs in Europe, House of Drăculești and princes of Wallachia.
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Peter the Younger
Peter the Younger (Romanian: Petru cel Tânăr) (1547 – 19 August 1569) was the Voivode (Prince) of Wallachia between 25 September 1559 and 8 June 1568. Mircea the Shepherd and Peter the Younger are 16th-century Romanian people, 16th-century monarchs in Europe and princes of Wallachia.
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Petru Rareș
Petru Rareș, sometimes known as Petryła or Peter IV (Petru IV; – 3 September 1546), was twice voivode of Moldavia: 20 January 1527 to 18 September 1538 and 19 February 1541 to 3 September 1546. Mircea the Shepherd and Petru Rareș are 16th-century Romanian people.
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Postelnic
Postelnic (plural: postelnici, from the Slavic postel, "bed"; cf. Russian postelnichy) was a historical rank traditionally held by boyars in Moldavia and Wallachia, roughly corresponding to the position of chamberlain.
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Radu Ilie Haidăul
Radu Ilie Haidăul (? – 1558) was the son of Radu of Afumați and ruler of Wallachia from November 15, 1552 to May 1553. Mircea the Shepherd and Radu Ilie Haidăul are 16th-century Romanian people, 16th-century monarchs in Europe, House of Drăculești and princes of Wallachia.
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Radu IV the Great
Radu IV the Great (Radu cel Mare), (1467 – 23 April 1508) was a Voivode (Prince) of Wallachia from September 1495 to April 1508. Mircea the Shepherd and Radu IV the Great are 16th-century monarchs in Europe, House of Drăculești and princes of Wallachia.
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Radu Paisie
Radu VII Paisie, officially Radul (Church Slavonic: Радул воєвода; Radul-Voda), also known as Radu vodă Măjescul, Radu vodă Călugărul, Petru I, and Petru de la Argeș (ca. 1500Gheonea, p. 50 – after 1545), was Prince of Wallachia almost continuously from June 1535 to February 1545. Mircea the Shepherd and Radu Paisie are 16th-century Romanian people, 16th-century monarchs in Europe, House of Drăculești and princes of Wallachia.
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Slătioara, Vâlcea
Slătioara is a commune located in Vâlcea County, Oltenia, Romania.
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Southern Carpathians
The Southern Carpathians (also known as the Transylvanian Alps; Carpații Meridionali; Déli-Kárpátok) are a group of mountain ranges located in southern Romania.
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Spatharios
The spatharii or spatharioi (singular: spatharius; σπαθάριος, literally "spatha-bearer") were a class of Late Roman imperial bodyguards in the court in Constantinople in the 5th–6th centuries, later becoming a purely honorary dignity in the Byzantine Empire.
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Stolnic
Stolnic was a boier (Romanian nobility) rank and the position at the court in the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia.
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Suleiman the Magnificent
Suleiman I (Süleyman-ı Evvel; I.,; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in Western Europe and Suleiman the Lawgiver (Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān) in his Ottoman realm, was the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566.
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Suzerainty
Suzerainty includes the rights and obligations of a person, state, or other polity which controls the foreign policy and relations of a tributary state but allows the tributary state internal autonomy.
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Székelys
The Székelys (Székely runes), also referred to as Szeklers, are a Hungarian subgroup living mostly in the Székely Land in Romania.
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Transylvania
Transylvania (Transilvania or Ardeal; Erdély; Siebenbürgen or Transsilvanien, historically Überwald, also Siweberjen in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania.
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Vâlcea County
Vâlcea County (also spelt Vîlcea) is a county (județ) that lies in south-central Romania.
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Vornic
Vornic was a historical rank for an official in charge of justice and internal affairs.
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Wallachia
Wallachia or Walachia (lit,; Old Romanian: Țeara Rumânească, Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: Цѣра Рꙋмѫнѣскъ) is a historical and geographical region of modern-day Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia was traditionally divided into two sections, Muntenia (Greater Wallachia) and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia).
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See also
16th-century Romanian people
- Aaron the Tyrant
- Alexander II Mircea
- Alexander III the Bad
- Alexandru Cornea
- Anastasius Crimca
- Basarab VI
- Bogdan III the One-Eyed
- Catherine Salvaresso
- Doamna Chiajna
- Doamna Stanca
- Doamna Velica
- Elena Ecaterina Rareș
- Elena of Moldavia
- Iacob Heraclid
- Ieremia Movilă
- István Jósika
- Jeremiah of Wallachia
- Marcu Cercel
- Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania
- Maria Voichița
- Michael the Brave
- Mihnea Turcitul
- Milica Despina of Wallachia
- Mircea the Shepherd
- Moise of Wallachia
- Neagoe Basarab
- Peter the Cossack
- Peter the Lame
- Peter the Younger
- Petru Rareș
- Pătrașcu the Good
- Radu Ilie Haidăul
- Radu Paisie
- Radu of Afumați
- Ruxandra Basarab
- Ruxandra Lăpușneanu
- Vlad VI Înecatul
- Vlad cel Tânăr
House of Drăculești
- Alexander II Mircea
- House of Drăculești
- List of princes of Wallachia
- Marcu Cercel
- Michael the Brave
- Mihnea Turcitul
- Mihnea cel Rău
- Mircea II of Wallachia
- Mircea III Dracul
- Mircea the Shepherd
- Nicolae Pătrașcu
- Peter the Lame
- Petru Cercel
- Pătrașcu the Good
- Radu IV the Great
- Radu Ilie Haidăul
- Radu Paisie
- Radu of Afumați
- Radu the Handsome
- Vlad Călugărul
- Vlad VI Înecatul
- Vlad the Impaler
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_the_Shepherd
Also known as Mircea Ciobanul, Mircea IV.