Țara Amlașului (also Țara Amnașului; ; ) was a possession of the

voivode Voivode ( ), also spelled voivod, voievod or voevod and also known as vaivode ( ), voivoda, vojvoda, vaivada or wojewoda, is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe in use since the Early Mid ...

s of

Wallachia Wallachia or Walachia (; ; : , : ) is a historical and geographical region of modern-day Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia was traditionally divided into two sections, Munteni ...

Transylvania Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjen'') is a List of historical regions of Central Europe, historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and ...

, then part of the

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coro ...

. Wallachian voivodes are first attested as possessing part of the villages of Țara Amlașului in 1366 during Vladislav I's reign, and their possession of the whole territory lasted until 1467, when it was expropriated by Hungary.

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In 1366, the Romanian voivode of Wallachia and King

Louis I of Hungary Louis I, also Louis the Great (; ; ) or Louis the Hungarian (; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370. He was the first child of Charles I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of ...

reconciled. Vladislav I, Voivode of Wallachia (, "our Wallachian voivode") received the Fogaras and Omlás estates as well the Banate of Szörény as a

fief A fief (; ) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a form of feudal alle ...

. His possession of fiefs in

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

changed the relationship between the king and the voivode, and Vladislav entered the ranks of high-ranking Hungarian officials,

magnate The term magnate, from the late Latin ''magnas'', a great man, itself from Latin ''magnus'', "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or ot ...

s and

baron Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often Hereditary title, hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than ...

s. Țara Amlașului was located in the south of Transylvania, in the area of the Cindrel and

Lotru The Lotru is a right tributary of the river Olt in Romania. Its source is in the Parâng Mountains. It feeds the reservoirs Vidra, Malaia and Brădișor. It flows into the Olt in Golotreni, near the town of Brezoi. It passes through the commu ...

mountains and the lowlands to the north. It comprised several

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and

Saxon The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...

villages: Aciliu, Amlaș (the area's center, now called Amnaș), Cacova (now Fântânele), Galeș,

Săliște Săliște ( or ''Selischte''; ) is a town in Sibiu County, in the centre of Romania, west of the county capital, Sibiu. Declared a town in 2003, it is the main locality in the Mărginimea Sibiului area. Geography The town is situated at the ed ...

, Sibiel,

Tilișca Tilișca (; ) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, in the Cindrel Mountains, west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului Mărginimea Sibiului () is an area which comprises 18 Romanian localities in the south ...

and Vale. Țara Amlașului was included in

Mircea the Elder Mircea the Elder (, ; 1355 – 31 January 1418) was the Voivode of Wallachia from 1386 until his death in 1418. He was the son of Radu I of Wallachia and brother of Dan I of Wallachia, after whose death he inherited the throne. After the dea ...

's lengthy title mentioning all the possessions over which he held control. The title described him as the ''herțeg'' or

duke Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of Royal family, royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and above sovereign princes. As royalty or nobi ...

of the territory. Mircea governed Wallachia from 1386 to 1395 and again from 1397 to 1418, having had one of the longest reigns in Romanian history. Under him, Wallachia reached its maximum territorial extension.

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* {{Cite book , last=Miskolczy , first=Ambrus , url=https://mek.oszk.hu/22600/22639/22639.pdf , title=A román középkor időszerű kérdései , publisher=Magyarságkutató Intézet nstitute of Hungarian Research, year=2021 , isbn=978-615-6117-41-0 , location=Budapest , language=Hungarian , trans-title=Timely questions of the Romanian Middle Ages , issn=2677-0261 Historical regions of Transylvania Medieval history of Hungary Medieval Wallachia

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