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Petru Rareș

1487 - 1546

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Petru Rareș (pronounced [ˈpetru ˈrareʃ]), sometimes known as Petryła or Peter IV (Petru IV; c. 1483 – 3 September 1546), was twice voivode of Moldavia: 20 January 1527 to 18 September 1538 and 19 February 1541 to 3 September 1546. He was an illegitimate child born (probably at Hârlău) to Stephen the Great. His mother was Maria Răreșoaia of Hârlău, whose existence is not historically documented but who is said to have been the wife of a wealthy boyar fish-merchant nicknamed Rareș "rare-haired" (i.e., bald). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petru Rareș has received more than 71,622 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Petru Rareș is the 4,689th most popular politician (up from 6,861st in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Romania (up from 124th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Romanian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Petru Rareș ranks 4,689 out of 15,577. Before him are Philip, Duke of Orléans, Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Fernando de la Rúa, Amenemnisu, Tassilo III, Duke of Bavaria, and Antonín Zápotocký. After him are Ordoño I of Asturias, Emperor Go-Shirakawa, Peter von Biron, Al-Mu'tadid, Pim Fortuyn, and Binali Yıldırım.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1487, Petru Rareș ranks 6. Before him are Ismail I, Pope Julius III, John Zápolya, Pedro de Mendoza, and Bernard van Orley. After him are William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Michael Stifel, Anna of Brandenburg, Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona, Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, and Petar Hektorović. Among people deceased in 1546, Petru Rareș ranks 8. Before him are Hayreddin Barbarossa, Francisco de Orellana, Meera, Giulio Romano, Francisco de Vitoria, and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. After him are Étienne Dolet, Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Isabella di Morra, and David Beaton.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Petru Rareș ranks 82 out of 665. Before him are Princess Ileana of Romania (1909), Chivu Stoica (1908), Petru Groza (1884), Peter Mogila (1596), Iolanda Balaș (1936), and Ion Mihai Pacepa (1928). After him are Valentin Ceaușescu (1948), Ion Țiriac (1939), Nicu Ceaușescu (1951), Vladimir Cosma (1940), Olga Szabó-Orbán (1938), and Clara Haskil (1895).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Petru Rareș ranks 37. Before him are Mundzuk (368), Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899), László Rajk (1909), Stephen Bocskai (1557), Chivu Stoica (1908), and Petru Groza (1884). After him are Nicu Ceaușescu (1951), Nicolae Iorga (1871), Rezső Kasztner (1906), Christopher Báthory (1530), Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902), and Andrew Báthory (1563).

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