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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mircea I of Wallachia has received more than 385,865 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Mircea I of Wallachia is the 2,416th most popular politician (up from 2,742nd in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Romania (up from 50th in 2019) and the 23rd 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 2,416 out of 19,576. Before him are Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Empress Wanrong, and Bronisław Komorowski. After him are Juba I of Numidia, Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg, Omar al-Bashir, Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia, Zhao Gao, and Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Mircea I of Wallachia ranks 47 out of 844. Before him are Milan I of Serbia (1854), Basarab I of Wallachia (1275), Radu cel Frumos (1438), János Bolyai (1802), Bela Lugosi (1882), and John Cassian (360). After him are Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1820), Ilie Năstase (1946), Alexander Löhr (1885), Traian Băsescu (1951), Valentin Ceaușescu (1948), and Edward G. Robinson (1893).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Mircea I of Wallachia ranks 23. Before him are Klaus Iohannis (1959), Michael the Brave (1558), Álmos (820), Milan I of Serbia (1854), Basarab I of Wallachia (1275), and Radu cel Frumos (1438). After him are Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1820), Traian Băsescu (1951), György Dózsa (1470), Stephen Bocskai (1557), Chivu Stoica (1908), and Ana Pauker (1893).

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