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2 unusual facts about Radu Paisie


Scorțeni, Prahova

Around 1540, Radu Paisie, the ruler of Muntenia province of those times, set up a monastery at the confluence between Mislea River and Telega River.

Wallachia

Radu Paisie, who was deposed by Süleyman in 1545, ceded the port of Brăila to Ottoman administration in the same year; his successor Mircea Ciobanul (1545–1554; 1558–1559), a prince without any claim to noble heritage, was imposed on the throne and consequently agreed to a decrease in autonomy (increasing taxes and carrying out an armed intervention in Transylvania—supporting the pro-Turkish John Zápolya).



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