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Thirteen thousand gold and twenty thousand silver coins were robbed from the town's treasury. The massacre was incited and led by local Romanian lawyer Petru Dobra. [7] Thirty Hungarians were killed in Boklya. [8] About 200 Hungarians were killed in Gerendkeresztúr [8] and some 90 beaten to death near Marosújvár (Ocna Mureș). [9]
The bust of Horea in Horea Commune, Alba County. Vasile Ursu Nicola (1731 in Arada, Principality of Transylvania (now Horea, Romania) – 28 February 1785 in Karlsburg (now Alba Iulia, Romania), commonly known as Horea (in Hungarian sometimes Hóra) was a Transylvanian peasant who, with Ion Oarga [] ("Cloșca") and Marcu Giurgiu [] ("Crișan"), led the two-month-long peasant rebellion that ...
Majszin, Northern Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (today Moisei, Maramureș County) 29 ethnic Romanians: Two men were also seriously injured. [25] [26] Eugen Grigore case: July 1974: Ciurea, Iași County, Socialist Republic of Romania: 24 Romani: Around 50 other people were also injured. [27] Romanian Revolution of 1989: 16–25 December 1989
The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș (also called Black March, Hungarian: Fekete Március) [1] refer to incidents between the Hungarians and Romanians in Târgu Mureș and surrounding settlements in Transylvania, Romania in March 1990. The clashes were the bloodiest inter-ethnic incidents of the post-communist era in Transylvania. [2]
Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler (Romanian: Vlad Țepeș [ˈ v l a d ˈ ts e p e ʃ]) or Vlad Dracula (/ ˈ d r æ k j ʊ l ə,-j ə-/; Romanian: Vlad Drăculea [ˈ d r ə k u l e̯a]; 1428/31 – 1476/77), was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77.
A few days later, Basta, who sought to control Transylvania himself, assassinated Michael by order of the Habsburg Emperor; the killing took place near Câmpia Turzii on 9 August 1601. [46] According to Romanian historian Constantin C. Giurescu: [45] Never in Romanian history was a moment of such highness and glory so closely followed by bitter ...
Hungary protested against the new state borders, as they did not follow the real ethnic boundaries, for over 1.3 or 1.6 million Hungarian people, representing 25.5 or 31.6% of the Transylvanian population (depending on statistics used), [71] [72] were living on the Romanian side of the border, mainly in the Székely Land of Eastern Transylvania ...
The Great Plague of 1738 was an outbreak of the bubonic plague between 1738 and 1740 that affected areas of the Habsburg Empire, now in the modern nations of Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Slovakia, Czechia, and Austria. Although no exact figure is available, the epidemic likely killed over 50,000 people. [citation needed]