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"Istoria ieroglifică", ancient book by Prince Dimitrie Pantemir
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Fierce battle scene of Dacians against Roman legions of Emperror Trajan, from Trajan's Column. -
The tomb of Stephen the Great and his last wife, Maria Voichiţa, Putna Monastery. Prince Stephen the Great(known also as : Stephen III of Moldavia or Stephen III (c. 1432 – July 2, 1504)) was sanctified--or canonized-- as "Stephen the Great"--Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt-- "Stephen the Great and Holy" (canonized on July 12, 1992, in Bucharest, Romania, by the Romanian Orthodox Church). -
Moldavia's coat of Arms in 1481 under the rule of Stephen the Great and Holy--Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt -
Commemorative Post stamp in Moldavia showing an early print of a Romanian Orthodox Bible displayed at Museum of Romanian Literature "Mihail Kogălniceanu" in Chișinău, Besarabia -
Map of province Moldova in Romania, drawn in the first Romanian book written in 1714 and printed in Latin "Description Modlaviae" by Prince Dimitrie Cantemir:"CAPUT XI - DE LEGIBUS MOLDAVIAE PROVINCIALIBUS. Quae antiquitus Daciae leges fuerint, scire prohibet historicorum iis de rebus silentium: voluntatem tamen principum, naturaeque iura legis scriptae vim et autoritatem habuisse coniicere licet, e simili reliquarum gentium barbararum consuetudine. Posteaquam vero ab Ulpio Traiano Imper. victo Decebalo ..." CHAPTER 11. ON THE LAWS OF THE PROVINCE OF MOLDAVIA":The province of Moldavia is part of the ancient teritory of Dacia conquered by the Roman Empire of Trajanus (Trajan) as shown on Trajan's column- Ulpio Traiano, and has inherited the ancient laws of Dacia and Rome. -
The first Romanian proclamation of the Independent State and Kingdom of Romania in 1881 -
The first Romanian post stamp in Moldavia issued in 1847, representing the head of the "zimbru"-- a rare species of bison now extinct from the Carpathian forests that is also depicted on the Coat of Arms of ancient Romania's province of Moldavia; the writing at the top of the stamp with cyrillic letters reads: "Porto scrisori"--Letter stamp. -
Romanian stamp of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza from 1863-1864 -
Romanian stamp of Prince Carol I of Romania in 1866 -
Roumanian post stamp issued in 1872, in Paris, France, for use in Roumania, portraying King Carol I; the stamp has the same layout and design as similar stamps issued with the portrait of Napoleon III- the Emperor of France at the time. Stamp face value was 5B, or 5 bani (0.05 Lei). -
Coat of Arms of the first Kingdom of Romania ruled by King Carol I in 1881 -
Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Romania (1921-1947) -
Coat of Arms of Romania -
Romanian Army flag in 1914 during WWI -
Map of Dacia during king Burebista's reign of 60 to 44 BC. -
Roman province of Dacia in 106 AD. -
The Roman Empire at the time of death of Emperor Trajan in 117 AD. -
The Greater Romania Map and Frontiers after WWI during the reign of King Ferdinand I of Romania
Gallery for Putna Monastery[edit]
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Putna Monastery
Gallery: Images of important Romanian Kings, Rulers and Princes (Voievozi/Domnitori)[edit]
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Statue in Orashtie (Roum.-Orăștie) of ancient King Burebista--"(Ancient Greek: "Βοιρεβίστας") was a king of the Getae and Dacians, who unified for the first time their tribes and ruled them between 82 BC and 44 BC." -
Marble bust of Roman Emperor-Trajan - Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus (found at the Glyptothek, Munich), the conqueror of Dacia and the founder of the first Roman colony in Dacia in 106 AD; ruler of both the Roman Empire and Dacia between 106 and 117 AD (Emperor of Rome between 97 and 117 AD). -
Fresco from the Church at Argesh (Roum.-Argeș) of Basarab I the Founder (Roum. "Basarab Întemeietorul"), the first Voievode or Ruler of Wallachia(c. 1310/1319–1352); he lent his name to the Romanian province of Bessarabia (Roum. -Basarabia--meaning "The Country of Basarab") re-occupied by the soviet armies in 1943. -
Fresco depicting Stephen the Great, Prince of the Romanian province of Moldavia, from "The Book of the Four Gospels of Humor" printed in 1473. -
Orthodox Saint Stephen the Great of Romania -
Post-humous painting of Vlad the Impaler (Roum. Vlad Ţepeş), or Vlad The Devil--Vlad Dracul, Prince of Wallachia (1456-1462) (d. 1477) -
Michael Valachiae Transalpinae Woivoda, Sacrae Caesareae Regiae Majestatis Consiliarius per Transylvaniam Locumtenens, cis transylvaniam partium eius super exercitu Generalis Capitaneus". ("Michael, voivode of Wallachia, the councillor of His Majesty the Emperor and the King, his deputy in Transylvania and General Captain of his troops from Transylvania.") -
Michael the Brave at Alba Iulia uniting under him in 1600 Transylvania with both Wallachia and Moldavia: Prince of Wallachia, Prince of Transylvania and Prince of Moldavia, May - September 1600. -
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Constantin Brâncoveanu (1654 – August 15, 1714) was Prince of Wallachia between 1688 and 1714. -
Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, ruler of the province Moldavia of Romania, and Member of the Royal Academy of Berlin -
Prince Dimitrie Cantemir's official portrait -
Russian general Pavel Kiseleff (Pavel Kiselyov), appointed by the tzar of Russia to command the Russian occupying troops in Wallachia and Moldavia during the Russo–Turkish War of 1828–1829;"Prior to that, the Russian commander-in-chief, Prince Peter Wittgenstein, had moved into Wallachia and took Brăila and Bucharest without difficulty....Under his (Kisselef's) administration, the two states got their first constitutions, the Regulamentul Organic ("Organic Statute", French: Règlement organique)...introduced in Wallachia in 1831 and in Moldavia in 1832, which remained valid until the 1859 union of the principalities"... by Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza. -
Aleaxander Ioan Cuza, Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia principates in 1860--affectionately nicknamed "Cuza Vodă" by Romanians -
HM Carol I, the first recognized King of Romania in 1878 after he won The Independence War of Romania in 1877 against The Ottoman Empire as an ally of Tzar (Emperor) Alexander II of Russia, formally recognized by both the European Powers and the Turkish Porte of the Ottoman Empire. -
HM King Carol I of Romania in 1880 -
Prince Carol I in 1877 at Plevna, at the head of the Romanian army -
HM King Ferdinand I who united all Romanian provinces, including Bessarabia (Basarabia), into The Greater Romania after WWI -
HM King Ferdinand of Romania, grandfather of later-to be-king Michael I of Romania. -
Young King Michael I of Romania (1927-1930 and 1940 – 1947) in the early 1940s--the latest Romanian king forced to abdicate in 1947 by the occupying soviet armies controlling a communist-dominated Romanian government 're-formed' under soviet military pressure in December 1947.
