Wallachia in a sentence

Ardeal/Erdel was the name of Transylvania, and Kara Iflak, "Northern Wallachia" was either Wallachia, north of the Balkan territories inhabited by Vlachs, or Moldavia (north of Wallachia).

In the volume: The other Europe from the Middle Ages, Edited by Florin Curta, Brill 2008, p. 394 Black Wallachia Mavrovlachia (Black Wallachia) is another name of Moldavia.

Moldavia and Wallachia main In the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (both now part of Romania ), the government held slavery of the Roma (often referred to as Gypsies) as legal at the beginning of the 19th century.

Radu the Handsome was born in 1438 as Radu III of Wallachia.

On page 17 of another of the library's books — An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia — the corner has been turned over.

According to the charter, he was subject to Charles I of Hungary as the voivode of Wallachia.

For long periods after the 14th century, Wallachia was referred to as Vlaško (Влашко) by Bulgarian sources, Vlaška (Влашка) by Serbian sources and Walachei or Walachey by German-speaking ( Transylvanian Saxon ) sources.

Giurescu, p.122, 127 The treaty also allowed Moldavia and Wallachia to freely trade with countries other than the Ottoman Empire, which signalled substantial economic and urban growth, as well as improving the peasant situation.

It exhibits some cultural influences from the Vlach shepherds who migrated from Wallachia (southern Romania) in the 14th–17th centuries.

On 7 July 1595, Mehmed III finally sacked Serdar Ferhad Pasha from the position of Grand Vizier due to his failure in Wallachia and replaced him with Sinan.

Ottoman Turkish references to Moldavia included Boğdan Iflak (meaning " Bogdan 's Wallachia") and Boğdan (and occasionally Kara-Boğdan - "Black Bogdania").

People of Wallachia only knew voievod (king) Vlad III as Vlad Țepeș (the Impaler).

Slavery was a common practice in Europe at the time, and there is some debate over whether the Romani people came to Wallachia as free men or as slaves.

Society Slavery Slavery ( Romanian robie main) was part of the social order from before the founding of the Principality of Wallachia, until it was abolished in stages during the 1840s and 1850s.

The capture of Giurgiu by the Turks immediately threatened Bucharest in Wallachia with capture by the same Turk army.

The Moldavian unrest was quickly suppressed, but in Wallachia the revolutionaries took power and governed during the summer (see 1848 Wallachian revolution ).

There is some debate over whether the Romani people came to Wallachia and Moldavia as free men or were brought as slaves.

The Saxons were furious with Vlad III Dracula for strengthening the boarders of Wallachia, which interfered with their stranglehold on the trade routes.

The two primary Balkan powers, Hungary and the Ottomans, maintained an enduring struggle to make Wallachia their own vassal.

This led to the conquest of Wallachia by Radu III who would rule it for 11 years until his death.