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Costache Conachi
Costache Conachi (; b. September 14/25, 1778, Munteni, Țigănești, Tecuci County, Moldavia – d. February 4/16, 1849, Munteni, Țigănești, Tecuci County, Moldavia, actually Galați County, Romania) was a Romanian boyar, politician, poet and writer noted for emphasizing reason and improving the craft of Romanian language, Romanian writing. Biography Born as a member of the Conachi family, he was an affluent Boyars of Wallachia and Moldavia, boyar from Moldavia. If the Paharnicul Constantin Sion writes that the "Konaki family" is of Greek origin, "but for more than 160 years they came and have been related to many of the big [local] families", Paul Păltănea brought documents "which implies that the Conachi family descends from a family of "răzeși"Răzeși is the name given to free people, in the Middle Ages, in Moldavia[*] [*] Historical Romanian ranks and titles from the village of Știoborăni,Știoborăni - a village in Solești commune in Vaslui County, Western Moldav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conachi Family
The Conachi family was a Moldavian Boyars of Wallachia and Moldavia, boyar family, of Phanariotes, Phanariote origin, or, according to others, of Moldavian high nobility (''răzeș'') origin. Notable members *Costache Conachi, writer, poet, engineer, and politician (Logothete, Great Logothete of Moldavia) *Cocuța Conachi, Ecaterina Cocuța Conachi, activist and revolutionary References {{DEFAULTSORT:Conachi Family Conachi family, Phanariotes Romanian boyar families Moldavian nobility ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convorbiri Literare
''Convorbiri Literare'' () is a Romanian literary magazine published in Romania. It is among the most important journals of the nineteenth-century Romania. History and profile ''Convorbiri Literare'' was founded by Titu Maiorescu in 1867. The magazine was the organ of the Junimea group, a literary society which was established in 1864. The group included aristocratic Moldovans except for Titu Maiorescu. The magazine was first headquartered in Iaşi and later moved to Bucharest. ''Convorbiri Literare'' is published monthly by Convorbiri Literare publishing house. The magazine covered art reviews and translations of literary work. From 1906 the magazine also featured articles on plastic arts. The contributors included Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș and Apcar Baltazar among others. The other significant contributors were Mihai Eminescu, Ion Creangă and Ion Luca Caragiale. ''Convorbiri Literare'' has a conservative stance, and its literary rival was socialist Socialism is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantin Sion
Constantin Sion, also known as Costandin or Cothi Sion (September 18, 1795 – February 27, 1862), was a Moldavian political conspirator, genealogist, and polemicist. He was born into the lower ranks of the Boyars of Moldavia and Wallachia, boyar aristocracy, and, though his brothers were able to climb the social ladder, he mostly had petty offices in the provinces. Sion's frustration with this standing, and his resentment toward more successful Greeks in Romania, Greeks, shaped his literary work and his activities as a falsifier of documents, in conjunction with his younger brother Costache. Early on, he fabricated evidence that suggested his family was descended from the Giray dynasty, Khan Girays of the Crimean Khanate. Constantin experienced an episodic rise in status during the Greek War of Independence, when he supported the Ottoman Empire and had his loyalism rewarded with the title of ''Paharnic''; however, he quickly reverted to the position of a minor copyist for the Molda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic Code (), officially the Civil Code of the French (; simply referred to as ), is the French civil code established during the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force in France, although heavily and frequently amended since its inception. Although Napoleon himself was not directly involved in the drafting of the Code, as it was drafted by a commission of four eminent jurists,Robert B. Holtman, ''The Napoleonic Revolution'' (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981) he chaired many of the commission's plenary sessions, and his support was crucial to its enactment. The code, with its stress on clearly written and accessible law, was a major milestone in the abolition of the previous patchwork of feudal laws. Historian Robert Holtman regards it as one of the few documents that have influenced the whole world. The Napoleonic Code was not the first legal code to be established in a European country with a civil-law legal system; it was preceded by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basilika
The ''Basilika'' (, "the imperial aws) was a collection of laws completed in Constantinople by order of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise during the Macedonian dynasty. This was a continuation of the efforts of his father, Basil I, to simplify and adapt the Emperor Justinian I's ''Corpus Juris Civilis'' code of law issued between 529 and 534 which had become outdated. The term comes from the Greek adjective ''Basilika'' meaning "Imperial (laws or enactments)" and not from the Emperor Basil's name; both sharing a common etymology from the term ''Basileus''. Background Many changes had taken place within the Byzantine Empire in between Justinian and Leo VI's reign, chiefly the change in language from Latin to Greek. During Justinian's era, Latin was still in common use and Court documents were written in it. However, by the 9th century the use of Latin was obsolete, which in turn made the ''Corpus Juris Civilis'' code hard to use for Greek speakers, even in the capital of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarlat Callimachi (hospodar)
Scarlat Callimachi (; 1773 – 12 December 1821) was Grand Dragoman of the Sublime Porte 1801–1806, Prince of Moldavia between August 24, 1806 – October 26, 1806, August 4, 1807 – June 13, 1810, September 17, 1812 – June 1819 and Prince of Wallachia between February 1821 – June 1821. Service in the Russo-Turkish War and captivity in Kharkiv A member of the Callimachi family, he was the son of Alexandru Callimachi and Ruxandra Ghica, and married Smaragda Mavrogheni. In 1810, during the Russo-Turkish War, he was imprisoned by the Russians, and taken to Kharkiv. He regained the Moldovan throne in 1812. Scarlat Callimachi adopted new laws and cut taxes for the boyars. He took measures against the plague, maintained upkeep of wood paved streets, supported Gheorghe Asachi's Romanian-language movement, and introduced potatoes to Moldavia. Suspicion of supporting the Greek War of Independence and death by poisoning In 1819 Scarlat Callimachi was taken to Istanbul to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princely Academy Of Iași
The Princely Academy of Iași was an institution of higher learning, active in the 18th and 19th centuries. History Founded in Iași (capital of the Principality of Moldavia) by the Prince Antioh Cantemir in 1707, the Academy symbolically continued the Academia Vasiliană, although no direct link exists between the two similar institutions. The main reformer of the Academy was Grigore III Ghica (1776), who modernised it as to compete with the European universities. The studies were done in Greek, and for the better part of the 18th century they were basically Aristotelian. Beginning with the 1760s a series of enlightened directors introduced into the Academy the study of mathematics, natural sciences and modern philosophy, translating and adapting European handbooks. In 1813–1819, Gheorghe Asachi lectured for the first time in Romanian at the Academy, training a class of engineers, as the School of Surveying and Civil Engineers ('). In 1821, the Academy was disestablished by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen The Great
Stephen III, better known as Stephen the Great (; ; died 2 July 1504), was List of rulers of Moldavia, Voivode (or Prince) of Moldavia from 1457 to 1504. He was the son of and co-ruler with Bogdan II of Moldavia, Bogdan II, who was murdered in 1451 in a conspiracy organized by his brother and Stephen's uncle Peter Aaron, Peter III Aaron, who took the throne. Stephen fled to Kingdom of Hungary (1301–1526), Hungary, and later to Wallachia; with the support of Vlad the Impaler, Vlad III Țepeș, List of rulers of Wallachia, Voivode of Wallachia, he returned to Moldavia, forcing Aaron to seek refuge in Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Poland in the summer of 1457. Teoctist I of Moldavia, Teoctist I, Metropolis of Moldavia and Bukovina, Metropolitan of Moldavia, Anointing, anointed Stephen prince. He attacked Poland and prevented Casimir IV Jagiellon, List of Polish monarchs, King of Poland, from supporting Peter Aaron, but eventually acknowledged Casimir's suzerainty in 1459. Step ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen IV Of Moldavia
Stephen IV of Moldavia (; 1506 – 14 January 1527), also called Ștefăniță, was Prince of Moldavia from 1517 to 1527. He succeeded to the throne as son of the previous ruler, Bogdan III cel Chior. Until 1523, he was under the regency of Luca Arbore, Gatekeeper of Suceava Suceava () is a Municipiu, city in northeastern Romania. The seat of Suceava County, it is situated in the Historical regions of Romania, historical regions of Bukovina and Western Moldavia, Moldavia, northeastern Romania. It is the largest urban .... He was the father of John III the Terrible. Monarchs of Moldavia 16th-century monarchs in Europe House of Bogdan-Mușat 16th-century Moldavian people {{Europe-royal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Moldavia
Western Moldavia (, ''Moldova de Apus'', or , also known as Moldavia, is the core historic and geographical part of the former Principality of Moldavia situated in eastern and north-eastern Romania. Until its union with Wallachia in 1878, the Principality of Moldavia also included, at various times in its history, the regions of Bessarabia (with the Budjak), all of Bukovina, and Hertsa; the larger part of the former is nowadays the independent state of Moldova, while the rest of it, the northern part of Bukovina, and Hertsa form territories of Ukraine. Moldavia consists of eight counties, spanning over 18% of Moldova's territory. Six out of the 8 counties make up Moldavian's designated Nord-Est development region, while the two southern counties are included within Moldavian's Sud-Est development region. It comprises roughly 48.67% of the wider region of Moldavia. Etymology The names ''Moldavia'' and ''Moldova'' are derived from the name of the Moldova River; howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaslui County
Vaslui County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in the historical region Western Moldavia, with the seat at Vaslui. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 395,499 and the population density was 74/km2. * Romanians - over 98% * Romani people, Romas, Minorities of Romania, other ethnicities - 2% Geography This county has an area of 5,318 km2. The county lies on a plane, being bounded by the Prut River on the east and crossed in its centre by Bârlad River, a tributary of Siret River. Neighbours * Moldova, Republic of Moldova to the east - Raionul Cantemir, Cantemir raion and Raionul Cahul, Cahul raion. * Neamț County, Bacău County and Vrancea County to the west. * Iași County to the north. * Galați County to the south. People * Dimitrie Cantemir * Alexandru Ioan Cuza * Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej * Alexandra Nechita * Ana Pauker * Ștefan Procopiu * Emil Racoviță * Constantin Tănase * Nicolae Tonitza * Alexandru Vlahuță Economy Vaslui County was heavily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
