Alexandru IV Iliaș was Prince of
Wallachia
Wallachia or Walachia (; ro, Țara Românească, lit=The Romanian Land' or 'The Romanian Country, ; archaic: ', Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and s ...
from 1616 to 1618, then from 1628 to 1629, and Prince of
Moldavia
Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and former principality in Centra ...
from 1620 to 1621 and 1631 to 1633.
Life
Alexandru IV Iliaș was the son of Ilie, or Iliaș, himself son of
Alexandru IV Lăpușneanu, Prince of Moldavia. His father was elected Prince of Wallachia in March 1591 but he could not win against Radu.
Alexandru IV was approved Prince of Wallachia by the
Ottomans
The Ottoman Turks ( tr, Osmanlı Türkleri), were the Turkic founding and sociopolitically the most dominant ethnic group of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299/1302–1922).
Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, ...
from September 1616 to November 1618 and from October 1629 to September 10, 1630. He was also Prince of Moldavia under the name Alexandru Ilie from September 10, 1620 (after the Battle of Țuțora) to October 1621 and from December 1631 to April 1633; he died the same year (or 1666).
From an unknown wife he left two sons:
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Radu XI Iliaș, Prince of Wallachia;
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Iliaș Alexandru, Prince of Moldavia.
Sources
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Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol
Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol (; March 23, 1847, Iaşi – February 27, 1920, Bucharest) was a Romanian historian, philosopher, professor, economist, sociologist, and author. Among his many major accomplishments, he is the Romanian historian cr ...
''Histoire des Roumains de la Dacie trajane: Depuis les origines jusqu'à l'union des principautés''. E. Leroux Paris (1896)
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Nicolas Iorga
Nicolae Iorga (; sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga;Iova, p. xxvii. 17 January 1871 – 27 November 1940) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, Albanologist, poet ...
''Histoire des Roumains et de la romanité orientale''. (1920)
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Constantin C. Giurescu &
Dinu C. Giurescu, ''Istoria Românilor'' Volume III (from 1606), Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, București, 1977.
* Jean Nouzille ''La Moldavie, Histoire tragique d'une région européenne'', Ed. Bieler, .
* Gilles Veinstein, ''Les Ottomans et la mort'' (1996) .
* Joëlle Dalegre ''Grecs et Ottomans 1453-1923. De la chute de Constantinople à la fin de l'Empire Ottoman'', L'Harmattan Paris (2002) .
Princes of Wallachia
Monarchs of Moldavia
1666 deaths
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