Mihai Viteazu - Battle of Şelimbăr 1599

From the movie Mihai Viteazul (1970).

Song: Judas Priest - Blood Stained.

The Battle of Şelimbăr was one of the great events in medieval Romanian history. It took place on 18 October 1599 between the Wallachian army of Michael the Brave (Romanian: Mihai Viteazul) and the Transylvanian-Hungarian army of Andrew Bathory. The battleground was fought near the village of Şelimbăr close to Sibiu.

Michael the Brave marched into Transylvania to unite it with Wallachia and later Moldavia to fight against Ottoman aggression. The neighboring rulers Andrew Bathory in Transylvania and Ieremia Movilă in Moldavia were friendly toward Poland. In 1598, Michael signed a treaty of peace with the Ottomans, however both sides knew that the issue was far from settled. When Transylvania fell under the influence of Poland, which preserved normal relations with the Porte, a hostile ring closed around Wallachia. Only the Habsburgs were prepared to ally themselves with Michael. The treaty, signed in Prague on 9 June 1598, made Wallachia a vassal state; in exchange, the emperor undertook to cover the cost of providing five thousand mercenaries to the Romanian principality. The voivode, as befits a good general, wanted to secure a land link to his ally. With Emperor Rudolph's assent, he launched an attack on Transylvania.

Michael had approximately 40,000 men at his command. Many of them did not fight, however, preferring instead to remain in the camp and protect the women and children of the boyari, who had joined them in this campaign out of the fear of possible Tatar attacks in Wallachia.

The army of Andrew Bathory numbered approximately 30,000 men, but in the course of the battle many defected and joined the army of Michael, including Szekely Hungarians who despised the ruling Báthory family. The Wallachians gained the upper hand at the beginning of the battle, but were pushed back quickly by the charge of the Hungarian Hussars. The Hungarians then had the opportunity to win the battle, but Andrew Bathory refused to send the rearguard into the battle, thus giving the Wallachians a chance to regroup. The resulting charge against the Hungarian army was a success, Andrew Bathory fled from the field (only to be later assassinated), and Michael headed with his victorious army to the city of Alba Iulia, as the Diet recognised him as imperial governor. Casualties were at least 1,200 to 1,500 on the Hungarian side, and 200 to 1,000 men killed on the Wallachian side. Michael's victory resulted in the first instance when the principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania were united under a Romanian ruler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_%C5%9Eelimb%C4%83r

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[poqra]

Rumania es una nacion latina, saludos desde Latinoamerica.

[florin171]

kill them all ....kill this fucking nation hungayria...i want to behead some hungarians.

[MrVander78alex]

STIATI CA HUNII AU VENIT IN PANONIA IN SECOLUL 3-4 IAR MAGHIARII IN SECOLUL 7-9 ??? BOZGORII SUNT NISTE CORCITURI

[razvan1928]

fucking hunGAYrians where pussyes all time . they are a nation of sluts that's what they are , they like to rape, KILL, STEAL lands from other countryes. Long live Romania and Mihai VIteazul!

[dvploesteanu]

indeed(intr-adevar we had nominations imposed by the nomad slave tribes as for their own understanding...the truth is that from at least 11.000 years after the last glaciasion alot of nomad tribes tried to come back home to their ancestors but did it in a brutal way.

[majinleoking]

mai bine puneai niste power metal, daca voiai metal

[dreacul]

@3dwardcullen69 In the areeas were dacoromanians(vlachs) were the majority the slavs got assimilated by them in the same time also were slavs were in majority, vlachs been assimilated too. It is important to understand and accept this thing if we wan't to talk about origins. And one more thing, in all european countries the states were formed by outlander nobles and kings! In spain we have the vizigots, in Galia we have the franks, in Italy we have the longobards...in romania we have the slavs

[dreacul]

@3dwardcullen69 Corectly. None of the roman political administration titles or functions has been survived in middle century. We all have kneaz, voievozi, titles wich are of slavic origin. And it`s a reality, slavs did lived here in large numbers. They formed many comunities. Even in nowaday Bucharest areea, around the lakes were slavic comunities. While in the depressions of carpathians were living dacoromanian comunities(vlachs) wich were practicing transhumance.

[natilla83]

the musics socks

[gogoasacenusie]

About Romanians, official academical study:

"Romanians descend from the Dacians, an ancient people who fell under Rome's dominance in the first century A.D., intermarried with Roman colonists, and adopted elements of Roman culture, including a Vulgar Latin that evolved into today's Romanian"

Library of Congress, US

Source: memory(.)loc(.)gov/cgi-bin/que­ry/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+ro­0011)

[gogoasacenusie]

@plzrm , absolutely false. The Latin character of the Romanian language has been stated even from the 14th century by all Italian humanists including Antonio Bonfini or even the Pope Eneas Silvius. The "daco-roman" origin of Romanians has been stated for almost a millenium. The Albanian words in Romanian come obviously from the fact that Ilyrians, Dacians and Thracians were all related to each other. Since it's obviously you're Hungarian i suggest you open a history book outside your country

[tirpitz19]

@3dwardcullen69 Imi place cum gandesti.Nu cazi in capcana nationalismului orb ,ca multi altii.

In general ,vezi lucrurile clar si iti dau dreptate.In alte privinte ,ii dau dreptate si lui PLZRM.

Dialogul vostru e instructiv ,mai ales ca lasati injuraturile deoparte.