In 1394 he crossed the River Danube to attack Wallachia, ruled at that time by Mircea the Elder.

Mircea the Elder (,, ; 1355 – 1418 ) was ruler of Wallachia from 1386 until his death.

It is believed the castle was briefly held by Mircea the Elder of Wallachia during whose period the customs point was established.

Vlad's father was the son of the celebrated Voivode Mircea the Elder.

* Mircea cel Bătrân şi luptele cu turcii (" Mircea the Elder and Battles with the Turks "), Humanits, 2001

The region remained under Wallachian influence until the early 14th century, during the reign of Mircea the Elder, when the area was integrated into Moldavia by prince Alexander the Kind in still not fully clarified circumstances.

The Battle of Rovine took place on 17 May 1395 between the Wallachian army led by Voivod Mircea cel Bătrân ( Mircea the Elder ) against the Ottoman invasion led by sultan Bayezid I.

The first document attesting the existence of postal services in Romanian-speaking lands was " The Charter " issued by Sovereign Mircea the Elder, in 1399, at Giurgiu.

** Mircea cel Batran, ruler of Wallachia ( d. 1418 )

Stephen, and his victory at Vaslui, were the subject of a 1975 film, Ștefan cel Mare-Vaslui 1475, by Romanian director Mircea Drăgan.

Wallachia under Mircea cel Bătrân, c. 1390

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Cozia Monastery, erected close to Călimănești by Mircea cel Bătrân in 1388 and housing his tomb, is one of the most valuable monuments of national medieval art and architecture in Romania.

The resemblance with Lazarica church indicates that Mircea cel Bătrân has employed Serbian craftsmen from the Morava School.

Of great value is the hospital church, ' bolnița ' ( 1543 ), with original well-preserved indoor frescoes like the votive portrait of ruler Mircea cel Bătrân and his sons.

It became the capital of the Wallachian voivodship, probably during the reign of Mircea cel Bătrân.

Râmnicu Vâlcea was first attested during the rule of Prince Mircea cel Bătrân, as " the princely town of Râmnic " ( September 4, 1388 ), and confirmed as the seat of a Vâlcea County during the same period ( January 8, 1392 ).

The document stated that salesmen from Braşov were free to trade in several Wallachian towns ( Buzău, among them ) just as they were during the reign of Mircea cel Bătrân.

The first written account of the city appears in a document dating since 23-rd of November 1406 in an order signed by Mircea cel Batran.

Vlad II Dracul was a member of the House of Drăculeşti lineage, and son of Mircea cel Bătrân, and was known to have murdered members of the rival princely House of Dăneşti, a not-so-distant relation to his own father's House of Basarab, and gained power in Wallachia, upon returning from exile in Transylvania in 1436.

Vlad, having numerous mistresses, also fathered several illegitimate children, including another son named Mircea ( the name Mircea being a family favorite due to Vlad's father, Mircea cel Bătrân, a popular Wallachian voivode ).

* Mircea the Shepherd ( died 1559 ), son of Radu cel Mare

* Mircea cel Bătrân Naval Academy

Mircea cel Bătrân Naval Academy | " Mircea cel Bătrân " Naval Academy in Constanța.

The Old Princely Court ( Curtea Veche ) was built by Mircea Ciobanul, and under subsequent rulers, Bucharest was established as the summer residence of the court, competing with Târgoviște for the status of capital after an increase in the importance of southern Muntenia brought about by the demands of the suzerain power, the Ottoman Empire.

A local administration was first attested under Petru cel Tânăr ( in 1563 ), when a group of pârgari countersigned a property purchase ; the city's borders, established by Mircea Ciobanul, were confirmed by Matei Basarab in the 1640s, but the inner borders between properties remained rather chaotic, and were usually confirmed periodically by the Jude and his pârgari.

This official document whose broad lines was established by the Russian side, was signed by the presidents of Russia ( Boris Yeltsin ) and Moldova ( Mircea Snegur ).

After the death of Mircea, Sigismund freed the Severin Fortress occupied by the Turks, and even made some concessions to the monasteries of Vodita and Tismana.

Towards the end of his reign, Mircea signed a treaty with the Ottomans ; in return for a tribute of 3, 000 gold pieces per year, the Ottomans desisted from making Wallachia a province (" pashalik "). Giurescu, p. 370.

According to Mircea Eliade, one pervasive mythical theme associates heroes with the slaying of dragons, a theme which Eliade traces back to " the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a divine hero and a dragon.

Finally, the noted comparative religion scholar Mircea Eliade speculated that this conflict is actually a later version of an Indo-European myth concerning the conflict between and eventual integration of a pantheon of sky / warrior / ruler gods and a pantheon of earth / economics / fertility gods, with no strict historical antecedents.

In Strabo's opinion, the original name of the Dacians was " daoi ", which Mircea Eliade in his De Zalmoxis à Genghis Khan explained with a possible Phrygian cognate " Daos ", the name of the wolf god.

The Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade also noted that Arada, along with Irodiada, was a name used for a Romanian folkloric Queen of the Fairies ( Doamna Zinelor ), whom he believed was a " metamorphosis of Diana ".

In 1933, Mircea Eliade had a physical relationship with the actress Sorana Ţopa, while falling in love with Nina Mareş, whom he ultimately married.

In 1934, at a time when Sebastian was publicly insulted by Nae Ionescu, who prefaced his book ( De două mii de ani ...) with thoughts on the " eternal damnation " of Jews, Mircea Eliade spoke out against this perspective, and commented that Ionescu's references to the verdict " Outside the Church there is no salvation " contradicted the notion of God's omnipotence.

Like Mihail Sebastian, who was himself becoming influenced by Ionescu, he maintained contacts with intellectuals from all sides of the political spectrum: their entourage included the right-wing Dan Botta and Mircea Vulcănescu, the non-political Petrescu and Ionel Jianu, and Belu Zilber, who was a member of the illegal Romanian Communist Party.

This was probably not his first experience with drugs: vague mentions in his notebooks have been read as indication that Mircea Eliade was taking opium during his travels to Calcutta.

An unprecedented event occurred with the interview that was granted by Mircea Eliade to poet Adrian Păunescu, during the latter's 1970 visit to Chicago ; Eliade complimented both Păunescu's activism and his support for official tenets, expressing a belief that

Polemically, Călinescu proposed that Mircea Eliade's supposed focus on " aggressive youth " and served to instill his interwar Romanian writers with the idea that they had a common destiny as a generation apart.

Later, Mircea Eliade expressed his regret at not having had the chance to redeem his friendship with Sebastian before the latter was killed in a car accident.

At an early stage of his polemic with Culianu, Mircea Eliade complained in writing that " it is not possible to write an objective history " of the Iron Guard and its leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.

Alongside the arguments introduced by Daniel Dubuisson, criticism of Mircea Eliade's political involvement with antisemitism and fascism came from Adriana Berger, Leon Volovici, Alexandra Lagniel-Lavastine, Florin Ţurcanu and others, who have attempted to trace Eliade's antisemitism throughout his work and through his associations with contemporary antisemites, such as the Italian fascist occultist Julius Evola.

Romanian scholar Mircea Handoca, editor of Eliade's writings, argues that the controversy surrounding Eliade was encouraged by a group of exiled writers, of whom Manea was a main representative, and believes that Eliade's association with the Guard was a conjectural one, determined by the young author's Christian values and conservative stance, as well as by his belief that a Legionary Romania could mirror Portugal's Estado Novo.

Mircea Eliade's nephew and commentator Sorin Alexandrescu himself proposed that Eliade's politics were essentially conservative and patriotic, in part motivated by a fear of the Soviet Union which he shared with many other young intellectuals.

In Romania, Mircea Eliade's legacy in the field of the history of religions is mirrored by the journal Archaeus ( founded 1997, and affiliated with the University of Bucharest Faculty of History ).

* Mircea Handoca, Convorbiri cu şi despre Mircea Eliade (" Conversations with and about Mircea Eliade ") on Autori (" Published Authors ") page of the Humanitas publishing house

Snow White's triple seeming-death and resurrection, beyond an amusement or wish-fulfilling temporary escape, fulfills the initiatory process of life, as Mircea Eliade described it: " What is called ' initiation ' coexists with the human condition, reaffirms the ultimate religious significance of life and the real possibility of a ' happy ending.

Phoenix was born again the next year, with Covaci, Josef Kappl, Mircea Baniciu, Costin Petrescu ( replaced in 1974 by Ovidiu Lipan, nicknamed " Ţăndărică ") and Valeriu Sepi.

Also during the golden age came the epoch of Romanian philosophy with such figures as Mircea Vulcănescu, Dimitrie Gusti, Alexandru Dragomir, and Vasile Conta.