The rebellion of the Seimeni and Dorobanți or Hrizea's revolts broke out on 26–27 February 1655, in

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. The timing of the events is controversial, but the reason is

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's desire to deprive himself of the services of the

seimeni Seimeni (plural of ''Seimen'') designates the group of flintlock-armed infantry mercenaries charged with guarding the ''hospodar'' (ruler) and his court in 17th and 18th century Wallachia and Moldavia. They were mostly of Serb and other Balkan o ...

, which Matthew Basarab relied on completely. At the beginning of the uprising, between 14 and 32

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were killed. It is an uprising of both " Praetorian" and ethnic origin. It is headed by Hrizea of Bogdănei - a swordsman and a foster parent. Hrizea was a bed-keeper, locksmith, and worshipper, like his mother-in-law, who was called Dragutin or Dragomir - under Matthew Basarab.Ionașcu, pp. 101, 263, 267 The uprising was extinguished after the Battle of Hopleja on 26 June 1655.

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'', October 1972 *Ludovic Demény, "Cu privire la caracterul răscoalei din 1655 în Țara Romînească", in ''Studii. Revistă de Istorie'', Vol. XVI, Issue 2, 1963 *I. Ionașcu, ''Biserici, chipuri și documente din Olt'', Vol. I. Craiova:

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, 1934. *Constantin Rezachevici, "Fenomene de criză social-politică în Țara Românească în veacul al XVII-lea (Partea a II-a: a doua jumătate a secolului al XVII-lea)", in ''Studii și Materiale de Istorie Medie'', Vol. XIV, 1996 {{Authority control Conflicts in 1655 17th century in Wallachia 17th-century rebellions Rebellions in Romania