Principality of Wallachia | |||||||||||||||
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| 1330 – 1862 | |||||||||||||||
 Coat of arms (1700)
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| Motto: Dreptate, Frăție "Justice, Brotherhood" (1848) | |||||||||||||||
.svg) Wallachia in 1812 | |||||||||||||||
 Wallachia in the late 18th century | |||||||||||||||
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| Religion | Majority: Romanian Orthodoxy Minority: Roman Catholicism, Reformed Church, Judaism | ||||||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Wallachian | ||||||||||||||
| Government | Elective absolute monarchy with hereditary lines | ||||||||||||||
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• c. 1290–c. 1310 | Radu Negru (first) | ||||||||||||||
• 1859–1862 | Alexandru Ioan Cuza (last) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1290[9] | |||||||||||||||
| 1330 | |||||||||||||||
• Ottoman suzerainty for the first time | 1417[10] | ||||||||||||||
• Long and Moldavian Magnate wars | 1593–1621 | ||||||||||||||
| 21 July [O.S. 10 July] 1774 | |||||||||||||||
| 14 September [O.S. 2 September] 1829 | |||||||||||||||
| 1834–1835 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 February [O.S. 24 January] 1859 | |||||||||||||||
| Currency | Grosh, denarii, aspri, ducat, florin, ughi, leeuwendaalder, Austrian florin and others | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Romania | ||||||||||||||
Wallachia or Walachia (/wɒˈleɪkiə/;[11] Romanian: Țara Românească, lit. 'The Romanian Land' or 'The Romanian Country'; 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). Dobruja could sometimes be considered a third section due to its proximity and brief rule over it. Wallachia as a whole is sometimes referred to as Muntenia through identification with the larger of the two traditional sections.
Wallachia was founded as a principality in the early 14th century by Basarab I after a rebellion against Charles I of Hungary, although the first mention of the territory of Wallachia west of the river Olt dates to a charter given to the voivode Seneslau in 1246 by Béla IV of Hungary. In 1417, Wallachia was forced to accept the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire;[10] this lasted until the 19th century.
In 1859, Wallachia united with Moldavia to form the United Principalities, which adopted the name Romania in 1866 and officially became the Kingdom of Romania in 1881. Later, following the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the resolution of the elected representatives of Romanians in 1918, Bukovina, Transylvania and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș were allocated to the Kingdom of Romania, thereby forming the modern Romanian state.
- ^ Walachia Archived 19 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine at britannica.com
- ^ a b Protectorate Archived 14 December 2020 at the Wayback Machine at britannica.com
- ^ Reid, Robert; Pettersen, Leif (11 November 2017). Romania & Moldova. Lonely Planet. ISBN 9781741044782. Archived from the original on 16 July 2023. Retrieved 11 November 2017 – via Google Books.
- ^ Ștefan Pascu, Documente străine despre români, ed. Arhivelor statului, București 1992, ISBN 973-95711-2-3
- ^ "Tout ce pays: la Wallachie, la Moldavie et la plus part de la Transylvanie, a esté peuplé des colonies romaines du temps de Trajan l'empereur... Ceux du pays se disent vrais successeurs des Romains et nomment leur parler romanechte, c'est-à-dire romain... " in Voyage fait par moy, Pierre Lescalopier l'an 1574 de Venise a Constantinople, in: Paul Cernovodeanu, Studii și materiale de istorie medievală, IV, 1960, p. 444
- ^ Panaitescu, Petre P. (1965). Începuturile şi biruinţa scrisului în limba română (in Romanian). Editura Academiei Bucureşti. p. 5.
- ^ Kamusella, T. (2008). The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe. Springer. p. 352. ISBN 9780230583474. Archived from the original on 16 July 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- ^ Olson, James Stuart; Pappas, Lee Brigance; Pappas, Nicholas Charles; Pappas, Nicholas C. J. (1994). An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 550. ISBN 9780313274978. Archived from the original on 16 July 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- ^ Brătianu 1980, p. 93.
- ^ a b Giurescu, Istoria Românilor, p. 481
- ^ "Wallachia". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
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