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Roman I of Moldavia. Roman I (died March 1394) was Voivode of Moldavia from December 1391 to March 1394. He was the second son of Costea and Margareta Muşata (= "the beautiful" in Old Romanian) the daughter of the first ruler of Moldavia, Bogdan I and the founder Muşatin family. [1]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roman I (died March 1394) was Voivode of Moldavia from December 1391 to March 1394. He was the second son of Costea and Margareta Muşata (= "the beautiful" in Old Romanian) the daughter of the first ruler of Moldavia, Bogdan I and the founder Muşatin family.
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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The original and short-lived reference to the region was Bogdania, after Bogdan I, the founding figure of the principality.[c] The names Moldavia and Moldova are derived from the name of the Moldova River; however, the etymology is not known and there are several variants: 1. A legend mentioned in Descriptio Moldaviae (1714–1716) by Dimitrie Cantem...
Early Middle Ages
The inhabitants of Moldavia were Christians. Archaeological works revealed the remains of a Christian necropolis at Mihălășeni, Botoșani county, from the 5th century. The place of worship, and the tombs had Christian characteristics. The place of worship had a rectangular form with sides of eight and seven meters. Similar necropolises and places of worship were found at Nicolina, in Iași The Bolohoveni are mentioned by the Hypatian Chronicle in the 13th century. The chronicle shows that this[...
High Middle Ages
The Franciscan Friar William of Rubruck, who visited the court of the Great Khan in the 1250s, listed "the Blac", or Vlachs, among the peoples who paid tribute to the Mongols, but the Vlachs' territory is uncertain. Friar William described "Blakia" as "Assan's territory" south of the Lower Danube, showing that he identified it with the northern regions of the Second Bulgarian Empire.Later in the 14th century, King Charles I of Hungary attempted to expand his realm and the influence of the Cat...
Late Middle Ages
Under Stephen the Great, who took the throne and subsequently came to an agreement with Casimir IV of Poland in 1457, the state reached its most glorious period. Stephen blocked Hungarian interventions in the Battle of Baia, invaded Wallachia in 1471, and dealt with Ottoman reprisals in a major victory (the 1475 Battle of Vaslui); after feeling threatened by Polish ambitions, he also attacked Galicia and resisted a Polish invasion in the Battle of the Cosmin Forest (1497). However, he had to...
Under the reign of Stephen the Great, all farmers and villagers had to bear arms. Stephen justified this by saying that "every man has a duty to defend his fatherland"; according to Polish chronicler Jan Długosz, if someone was found without carrying a weapon, he was sentenced to death. Stephen reformed the army by promoting men from the landed fre...
Geographically, Moldavia is limited by the Carpathian Mountains to the West, the Cheremosh River to the North, the Dniester River to the East and the Danube and Black Sea to the South. The Prut Riverflows approximately through its middle from north to south. Of late 15th century Moldavia, with an area of 94,862 km2 (36,626 sq mi), the biggest part ...
Historical population
Contemporary historians estimate the population (historically referred to as Moldavians) of the Moldavian Principality in the 15th century, at between 250,000 and 600,000 people,but an extensive census was first conducted in 1769–1774. In 1848, the northwestern part, annexed in 1775 by the Habsburg Empire, Bukovina, had a population of 377,571; in 1856, the eastern half of Moldavia, Bessarabia, annexed in 1812 by the Russian Empire, had a population of 990,274, while the population of Moldavi...
Cities
The largest cities (as per last censuses) and metropolitan areas in the Moldavia region are:[citation needed] 1. Romania: 1.1. Iași– 290,422 (465,477 in metropolitan area) - capital of Moldavia between 1564 and 1859 1.2. Galați– 249,432 (323,563) 1.3. Bacău– 144,307 (223,239) 1.4. Botoșani– 106,847 (144,617) 1.5. Suceava– 92,121 (144,100) – capital of Moldavia between 1388 and 1564 1.6. Piatra Neamț– 85,055 (131,334) 1.7. Focșani– 79,315 (125,699) 2. Ukraine: 2.1. Chernivtsi (Cernăuți)– 240,6...
In 1562, the so-called Schola Latina (a Latin Academic College) was founded in Cotnari, near Iași, a school which marked the beginnings of the organized humanistic education institutions in Moldavia. The first institute of higher learning that functioned on the territory of Romania was Academia Vasiliană (1640), founded by Prince Vasile Lupu as a H...
Literature
1. Cazania lui Varlaam 2. Descriptio Moldaviae 3. Chronicle of Huru 4. Grigore Ureche 5. Miron Costin 6. Nicolae Costin 7. Ion Neculce 8. Dimitrie Cantemir 9. Gheorghe Asachi
Magazines and newspapers
1. Alăuta Românească 2. Albina Românească 3. Dacia Literară 4. Propășirea 5. România Literară 6. Steaua Dunării 7. Zimbrul și Vulturul
Theatre
1. The Great Theatre/National Theatre
Vlad Georgescu, Istoria ideilor politice românești (1369-1878), Munich, 1987Ștefan Ștefănescu, Istoria medie a României, Bucharest, 1991Media related to Principality of Moldaviaat Wikimedia CommonsThe Princely Court in Bacău – images, layouts (at the Romanian Group for an Alternative History Website)Original Documents concerning both Moldavia and other Romania Principalities during the Middle Ages (at the Romanian Group for an Alternative History Website)Early history. Moldova. Bessarabia —the name often given to the region of historical Moldavia between the Dniester and Prut rivers—has a long and stormy history. Part of Scythia in the 1st millennium bce, Bessarabia later came marginally under the control of the Roman Empire as part of Dacia.
About: Roman I of Moldavia. Roman I (? – March 1394) was Voivode of Moldavia from December 1391 to March 1394. He was the second son of Costea and Margareta Muşata (= "the beautiful" in Old Romanian) the daughter of the first ruler of Moldavia, Bogdan I and the founder Muşatin family.
Category. : Roman I Mușat. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Language select: English: Roman I was Voivode of Moldavia from December 1391 to March 1394. He was the second son of Costea Muşat, the first ruler from the Muşatin family.
