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Basarab I

Type Figure Region Wallachia Time c. 1280–1352 Also known as Basarab I (Wallachia)

Voivode of Wallachia (c. 1310–1352), founder of the Basarab dynasty. At the Battle of Posada in 1330 he defeated King Charles I of Hungary, establish…

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  1. c. 1310–1341Câmpulung · WallachiaIntegrated Wallachia's local powers and gradually threw off Hungarian suzerainty; in November 1330 he ambushed and heavily defeated Charles I's army at the Posada Pass, a battle regarded as the key moment of Wallachia's de facto independence.
  2. 1341–1350Wallachia · WallachiaIn the 1340s maintained independence squeezed between Hungary, Bulgaria, and Serbia; strengthened local administration and church ties, shifting the center of capital activity south to the Curtea de Argeș area, laying the foundation for the Basarab family's hereditary rule.

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