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György Rákóczi I

Type Figure Region Transylvania Time 1593–1648 Also known as George Rákóczi I

György Rákóczi I (1593–1648) was Prince of Transylvania (r. 1630–1648), a Calvinist noble who consolidated the principality's autonomy, dealt with th…

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  1. 1630–1640Gyulafehérvár · TransylvaniaAfter being elected prince in 1630, Rákóczi I maintained Transylvanian autonomy between Habsburg suzerainty and Ottoman power; in the 1630s he pursued religious tolerance, developed mining and trade, and allied with Sweden in the Thirty Years' War, expanding the influence of the Evangelical cause.

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