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Wallachia

 

Contents

Flags

Meaning/Origin of the Flag

Coat of Arms

Meaning/Origin of the Coat of Arms

Map

Numbers and Facts

History

Origin of the Country's Name



Flags

Flagge Fahne flag Walachei Wallachia Vlachia Muntenia Principatul Tării Românesti
14th–15th century,
Flag of the Principality of Wallachia,
Source, by: Flags of the World




Flagge Fahne flag Walachei Wallachia Vlachia Muntenia Principatul Tării Românesti
18th/19th century,
Flag of the Principality of Wallachia,
Source, by: Flags of the World




Flagge Fahne flag Walachei Wallachia Vlachia Muntenia Principatul Tării Românesti
19th century,
Country's Colours of the Principality of Wallachia,
also reversed in color,
Source, by: Flaggen und Coat of arms of the Welt, Die Welt der Flaggen




Flagge Fahne flag Walachei Wallachia Vlachia Muntenia Principatul Tării Românesti
ca. 1843–1861,
Country's Colours of the Principality of Wallachia,
Source, by: Flags of the World




Naval flag naval flag Flagge Fahne flag Walachei Wallachia Vlachia Muntenia Principatul Tării Românesti
ca. 1843–1861,
Naval flag,
Source, by: Flags of the World




War flag war flag Flagge Fahne flag Walachei Wallachia Vlachia Muntenia Principatul Tării Românesti
ca. 1843–1861,
War flag,
Source, by: Flags of the World




National flag national flag Flagge Fahne flag Walachei Wallachia Vlachia Muntenia Principatul Tării Românesti
ca. 1843–1861,
National flag,
Variant,
Source, by: Flags of the World




National flag national flag Flagge Fahne flag Walachei Wallachia Vlachia Muntenia Principatul Tării Românesti
ca. 1843–1861,
National flag,
Variant,
Source, by: Flags of the World




Merchant flag merchant flag Flagge Fahne flag Walachei Wallachia Vlachia Muntenia Principatul Tării Românesti
ca. 1843–1861,
alleged merchant flag,
Source, by: Flaggen aller Seefahrenden Nationen, Flags of the World




Flagge Fahne flag Walachei Wallachia Vlachia Muntenia Principatul Tării Românesti
19th century,
Country's Colours of the Principality of Wallachia (?),
Source, by: Flaggen Enzyklopädie



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Meaning/Origin of the Flag

The coat of arms of the country shows a black raven on blue. Normally, the country's flags should have initially shown this image. However, sources from the 14th and 15th centuries report that there were initially white flags with the black raven. What the reasons for this were is unknown. Later sources from the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century describe blue flags with the black raven, which gradually changed to an eagle or even appeared as a hybrid. In the first half of the 19th century, Sultan Mahmud II granted yellow-blue pennants to Wallachian troops, so these colours can be assumed to be the national colours. From about 1843, the colour red seems to have been included in the circle of national colours (for what reason is unknown), because these three colours are found on troop flags, the naval flag and also the war flag. The national flag is puzzling, as various versions seem to have survived. The yellow flag with the red upper corner and the three stars, similar to the model of the Principality of Moldova, is mentioned in agreement, but the depiction of the eagle is very different. The eagle has been handed down in writing in light blue (which would fit the national colours to some extent), but seems to have been perceived as silver and in practice even gold or natural-coloured in use, although heraldry would forbid silver and gold and even more so gold on gold. An alleged merchant flag is also reported, with 15 vertical stripes across the base of the yellow flag, which in practice, due to the difficulties in producing such a flag, is not even conceivable. After all, all these variants show only red and yellow, so that some sources also state red and yellow as the national colours of Wallachia, a potent deviation from the colours of the coat of arms and very doubtful. This is always significant when it is asked for the origin of the colours of the Romanian flag. The Romanian colours blue, yellow and red were created during the revolution of 1848/1849 by combining the colours of the Principality of Wallachia and the Principality of Moldavia, namely yellow/blue and red/blue. However, it seems that blue, yellow and red had already been used in Wallachia, and the official name of the Principality of Wallachia "Principatul Tării Românesti" also showed the use of the Romanian term. However, in 1861, the state of Romania was created by the union of these two principalities.

Source: Flags of the World, Flaggen und Coat of arms of the Welt, Die Welt der Flaggen, Wikipedia (EN), Volker Preuß

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Coat of Arms


Wappen coat of arms Walachei Wallachia Vlachia Muntenia Principatul Tării Românesti
Coat of arms of Wallachia,
Source: Flags of the World

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Meaning/Origin of the Coat of Arms

The coat of arms of the country showed a black soaring raven on blue, on a juniper bush, holding a golden cross in its beak. To the left and right of the head appear the sun and the moon. The black raven gradually changed, over the centuries, into an eagle, or was even depicted as a hybrid creature. The later eagle of Wallachia dominates the heraldry of all Romania to this day.

Source: Flags of the World, Volker Preuß

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Map

The historical Regions in Romania:
interaktive Landkarte – interactive Map
Map: Volker Preuß

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Numbers and Facts

Area: 28.764 square miles (ca. 1860)

Inhabitants: 3.000.000 (ca. 1860)

Capital: Bucharest (Rom.: Bucuresti), 107.000 inh. (ca. 1860)

Languages: Wallachian Romanian

Currencyen: Piastre, Lei, since ca. 1860 Romanian Currency

Time Zone: GMT + 2 h

Source: Pierer's Universal-Lexikon, 4. Auflage, 1857–1865

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History

ca. 2000 B.C. · evolution of the nation of the Thrakians in Dakia (today’s Siebenburgen)

7th century B.C. · foundation of greek colonies at the coast of the Black Sea

70–44 B.C. · legendary reign of the Thrakian King Burebista

106 · the Roman Emperor and General Trajan conquers Dakia, incorporation as Province of Dacia

4th to 6th century · Great Transmigration (Migration Period), because of the expansion of the Huns in the Middle Asia Region whole nations became pushed to west, the Huns push the Slavs and that the Teutonic tribes, the Germanic tribes switch over to the area of the Roman Empire

270 · the Roman troops retreat from Dacia

271/272 · the Roman Emperor Aurelian cedes Dacia officially to the Western Goth

441 · the Huns range Dacia and submit it

453 · death of Attila, the King of the Huns

454 · withdrawal of the Huns

6th century · immigration of Slavs

7th century · out of the remaining Dako-Romans arises the Nation of the Dako-Romanesques

800 · annihilation of the Empire of the Awares by Carl the Great, Dacia is temporary ruled by Bulgarians

9th to 13th century · invasions of the Petsheneges, Kumans and Tatars

13th century · ein Volk der Rumänen wird erstmals urkundlich erwähnt

1300–1330 · unification of smaller Romanian principalities (Oltenia, Muntenia ...) to the Principality of Wallachia

1387 · dependence from Poland-Lithuania

1400 · initial Turkish (Ottoman Empire) attacks against Wallachia

1415 · the Principality of Wallachia has to pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

1461 · Prince Stephan III. of Moldavia (the Great, ca. 1435–1504) earns Wallachia

1475 · revolt of the Principality of Moldavia under Prince Stephan the Great, triumph over the Turks, restoration of the independence of Moldavia and Wallachia

1511 · Wallachia becomes annexed by the Ottoman Empire under limited interior autonomy

1593 · Michael the Brave (Mihai Viteazul) becomes Prince of Wallachia

1595 · Michael the Brave triumphs over the Turks

1599 · Michael the Brave becomes momentary Prince of Siebenburgen

1600 · Michael the Brave becomes Prince of Moldavia

19th of August 1601 · Michael the Brave becomes murdered, Wallachia and Moldavia have to recognize ultimately the Turkish supremacy

1711 · the Turks triumph over the Moldavian-Russian liberation armies, the Princes of Wallachia and Moldavia become dismissed and substituted by Greek proconsuls (Phanariots)

1716–1718 · Turk's War

21.07.1718 · Peace of Passarowitz (Pozarevac), the Ottoman Empire cedes the Banat, the Lesser Wallachia and Northern Serbia to the House of Habsburg

1739 · the Lesser Wallachia and Northern Serbia were handed over back to the Ottoman Empire

since 1774 · again increase of the Russian influence

1821 · great Anti-Turkish revolt in Wallachia under Tudor Vladimirescu, greek national uprising in Greece, the rule of the Phanariots becomes terminated by the Ottoman Empire

1828–1829 · Russian-Turkish War, defeat of Turkey, Russia establishes a kind of a protectorate üver Moldavia and Wallachia, but the Turkish supremacy consist furtherly

1848–1849 · civil-democratic revolution in Wallachia, the Prince of Wallachia resigns momentarily, the revolution becomes suppressed by Turkish and Russian troops

1856/58 · Crimean War, Treaties of Paris, the Russian protectorate becomes substituted by a protectorate of seven European states

1859 · Colonel Alexandru Ioan Cuza becomes elected to the Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia

1861 · Prince Ioan Cuza proclaims the Principality of Romania by unification of Wallachia and Moldavia

Source: Atlas zur Geschichte, Wikipedia (EN), World Statesmen, Pierer's Universal-Lexikon, 4. Auflage, 1857–1865

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Origin of the Country's Name

The Greeks called the country "Vlachia", from which the name of the country is derived. The inhabitants, on the other hand, called themselves "Român", i.e. "Romans", a reference to their origin. In the neighbouring German-speaking area, the inhabitants of the country became "Wallachians", which became formative for the country's name abroad. The Wallachians themselves called their country "Muntenia", the Turks called it "Ak-Iflak". Wallachia consists in Lesser Wallachia (Oltenia) western the Alt River (Olt) and in Greater Wallachia (Muntenia), eastern the Alt River (Olt).

Source: Wikipedia (DE), Volker Preuß

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