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Administrative division of Transylvania in the early 16th century. The integration of Transylvania into the newly established Kingdom of Hungary began around 1003. [2] [3] The province became subject to intensive colonization, [4] leading to the arrival and settlement of colonists of diverse origin, including the Hungarian-speaking Székelys and the Ethnic Germans. [5]
The latter period of Báthory rule saw Transylvania under Sigismund Báthory – prince of the Holy Roman Empire [21] – enter the Long War, which started as a Christian alliance against the Turks and became a four-sided conflict involving Transylvania, the Habsburgs, the Ottomans, and the voivode of Wallachia, Michael the Brave.
The prince was ready to join the alliance, but Andrew and Balthasar emphasized that Transylvania could not secede from the Ottoman Empire without the participation of Poland in the coalition. [76] Most of Sigismund's advisors supported their proposal, but his confessor, the Jesuit Alfonso Carillo, convinced him to continue the negotiations with ...
Red marble coat of arms of the family from 1484. The House of Báthory (Polish: Batory) was an old and powerful Hungarian noble family of the Gutkeled clan. The family rose to significant influence in Central Europe during the Late Middle Ages, holding high military, administrative and ecclesiastical positions in the Kingdom of Hungary.
Sigismund Báthory using the title Prince of Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia in a 1595 engraving. Sigismund's wife, Maria Christina of Habsburg Thaler of Sigismund Báthory minted in 1595 Battle of Giurgiu, which ended with the victory of the united forces of Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia over the retreating Ottoman army
Transylvania was ruled by Radu Şerban of Wallachia who held the title of voivode [17] September 1603–1604: Transylvania is administered by General Giorgio Basta in the name of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor [18] 1605–1606: Stephen Bocskai: 1 January 1557 Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) son of George Bocskai and Krisztina Sulyok Kata Hagymássy ...
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The Principality of Transylvania, from 1765 the Grand Principality of Transylvania, was a realm of the Hungarian Crown [1] [2] ruled by the Habsburg and Habsburg-Lorraine monarchs of the Habsburg monarchy (later Austrian Empire) and governed by mostly Hungarians.