The Principality of Wallachia was a medieval and early modern Orthodox Christian principality in what is now southern Romania, founded in the early fourteenth century and existing, latterly as an Ottoman tributary state, until it united with Moldavia in 1859 to form the core of modern Romania. Its rulers (voivodes) governed alongside the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Wallachia, whose own establishment and endowment of monasteries made the principality's ruling house and its church inseparable in matters of legitimacy and public religious life.
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State ReligionEastern Orthodox Christianity 1 Religious PolicyState and church inseparable in matters of legitimacy: the voivodes governed alongside the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Wallachia, whose own establishment and endowment of monasteries tied ruling legitimacy to church patronage. 1 Origins
Origin RegionThe plain between the southern Carpathians and the lower Danube in what is now southern Romania, founded in the early fourteenth century, with its princely seats at Curtea de Arges and later Targoviste and Bucharest. 1 Attributions
Associated ReligionEastern Orthodox Christianity, inseparable from the ruling house through the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Wallachia. 1 State religion (class)Christianity (Orthodox) 1 Connections
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This source names Romania directly: "principality in what is now southern Romania, founded in the early fourteenth century and existing, latterly as an Ottoman tributary state, until it united with Moldavia in 1859 to form the core of..."
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
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1. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005s.v. Wallachia; Romanian Orthodox historyView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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