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Matei Basarab

1580 - 1654

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Matei Basarab (Romanian pronunciation: [maˈtej basaˈrab] ; 1588, Brâncoveni, Olt – 9 April 1654, Bucharest) was the voivode (prince) of Wallachia from 1632 to 1654. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Matei Basarab is the 11,551st most popular politician (down from 11,127th in 2024), the 238th most popular biography from Romania (down from 229th in 2019) and the 91st most popular Romanian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Matei Basarab ranks 11,551 out of 19,576Before him are Philipp von Boeselager, Czesław Kiszczak, Burnaburiash I, Eutropia, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Conan II, Duke of Brittany. After him are Hendrikus Colijn, Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany, Paul Carell, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Ivan Fedyuninsky, and Fatima Sheikh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1580, Matei Basarab ranks 19Before him are Augusta of Denmark, António de Andrade, Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania, Andrea Falconieri, Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, and Pierre Vernier. After him are Julius Schiller, Daniël Heinsius, Carlo Contarini, Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania, Thomas Middleton, and Johann Faulhaber. Among people deceased in 1654, Matei Basarab ranks 14Before him are Samuel Scheidt, İslâm III Giray, Peter Claver, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Jacques Lemercier, and Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler. After him are Ole Worm, Athanasius III of Constantinople, John Selden, and Nicholas Culpeper.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Matei Basarab ranks 238 out of 844Before him are Kálmán Tisza (1830), Constantin Constantinescu-Claps (1884), Alexander Vencel (1944), Brunó Ferenc Straub (1914), John Houseman (1902), and Maria Tănase (1913). After him are Tudor Arghezi (1880), Mircea Diaconu (1949), Liviu Rebreanu (1885), Reuven Feuerstein (1921), Elena Văcărescu (1864), and Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1894).

Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Matei Basarab ranks 91Before him are Alexander I Aldea (1397), Tamás Bakócz (1442), Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (1952), Constantin Ion Parhon (1874), Radu Vasile (1942), and Kálmán Tisza (1830). After him are Nicolae Titulescu (1882), Titu Maiorescu (1840), Ion G. Duca (1879), Nicolae Ciucă (1967), Theodor Stolojan (1943), and Nicolae Rădescu (1874).