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Mircea I of Wallachia

1355 - 1418

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Mircea the Elder (Romanian: Mircea cel Bătrân, pronounced [ˈmirtʃe̯a tʃel bəˈtrɨn] ; c. 1355 – 31 January 1418) was the Voivode of Wallachia from 1386 until his death in 1418. He was the son of Radu I of Wallachia and brother of Dan I of Wallachia, after whose death he inherited the throne. After the death of his step-brother Dan I, Mircea takes over the throne in 1386, as Wallachia, on one side, was going through a process of economic, administrative, religious development, but also of strengthening the army, and on the other side it was confronted with the expansion tendencies of the Hungarian Kingdom and Poland, which were aiming at controlling the mouths of the Danube, but also those of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mircea I of Wallachia is the 3,679th most popular politician (down from 2,416th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Romania (down from 47th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Romanian Politician.

Mircea I of Wallachia is most famous for his victory over the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Șelimbăr in 1396.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mircea I of Wallachia ranks 3,679 out of 19,576. Before him are Charles, Duke of Berry, Amenemhat IV, Anna of Tyrol, Donald Rumsfeld, Antiochus VI Dionysus, and Aglaonice. After him are Dong Biwu, Marcel Cerdan, Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Ferdinand II of Naples, Albert I, Duke of Bavaria, and Condoleezza Rice.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1355, Mircea I of Wallachia ranks 3. Before him are Gemistus Pletho, and Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester. After him are Gülçiçek Hatun, Konstantin Dejanović, Theodore I Palaiologos, Manuel Chrysoloras, Melchior Broederlam, Konrad von Jungingen, Dorothea of Bulgaria, Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York, and Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Among people deceased in 1418, Mircea I of Wallachia ranks 2. Before him is Catherine of Lancaster. After him are Ostoja of Bosnia, Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, and Al-Qalqashandi.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Mircea I of Wallachia ranks 58 out of 844. Before him are Mircea II of Wallachia (1422), Regalianus (250), Gheorghe Zamfir (1941), George Emil Palade (1912), Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899), and Henri Coandă (1886). After him are Chivu Stoica (1908), Panait Istrati (1884), Valentin Ceaușescu (1948), Elisabeth of Romania (1894), Zoia Ceaușescu (1949), and Ion Ivanovici (1845).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Mircea I of Wallachia ranks 30. Before him are Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1820), Ben Ferencz (1920), Gabriel Bethlen (1580), Mircea II of Wallachia (1422), Regalianus (250), and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899). After him are Chivu Stoica (1908), Ana Pauker (1893), Sigismund Báthory (1572), György Dózsa (1470), Nicu Ceaușescu (1951), and László Rajk (1909).

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