Vasile Lupu
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Lupu Coci, known as Vasile Lupu, was the voivode of Moldavia between 1634 and 1653. He was of Albanian and Greek origin. Lupu had secured the Moldavian throne in 1634 after a series of complicated int
Vasile Lupu Fürst von Moldau
Portrait of Vasile Lupu on the Romanian Athaeneum wall.
Vasile Lupu in a Moldovan stamp of 1999
Gheorghe Ștefan
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Gheorghe Ștefan was the voivode of Moldavia between 13 April and 8 May 1653, and again from 16 July 1653 to 13 March 1658; he was the son of boyar Dumitrașcu Ceaur; Gheorghe Ștefan was Chancellor duri
Vasile Lupu
…and Nenișori and a third time, at Finta, in 1653. After this last battle, the Moldavian boyars rebelled and replaced him with the Wallachian favorite, Gheorghe Ștefan. Vasile Lupu went into exile and died while being kept in Turkish custody at Yedikule prison in Constantinople. Lupu built a strong alliance with hetman…
Gheorghe Stefan