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support. He was deprived in the same year, but again ruled the principality five more times from 1731 to 1733, from 1735 to 1741, from 1744 to 1748, from 1756 and 1758 and from 1761 to 1763. He managed to regain control over
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were he not to have this heavy retinue of his father's, with all those insatiable people, and were he not prone on removing his cousin Grigore-Voivode from Wallachia, there would not have been such plunder in the
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of princes with that of the Wallachian administrative body, and decided to deny boyar title to families whose members no longer held official appointments. In 1761, due to the reforms' effects, the
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where he died in captivity. Despite their attempts to have the reforms overturned, boyars had to deal with their effects, as successive rulers confirmed the laws' scope.
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His reigns were distinguished by numerous tentative reforms in the fiscal and administrative systems, partly influenced by those of the
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He ruled Moldavia four times from 1733 to 1735, from 1741 to 1743, from 1748 to 1749 and in 1769. He entered a personal rivalry with
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during their presence in Oltenia; initiated in Wallachia, they were to be applied consistently in Moldavia as well.
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fee (the effective abolition of serfdom: 1746 in Wallachia, 1749 in Moldavia). At the same time, he imposed a
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at several intervals between 1730 and 1769. As a ruler he issued reforms in the laws of each of the two
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he himself appointed to office, and who could act as judges; he also merged the traditional personal
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He forbade owners of slaves from separating married Gypsies belonging to different masters
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Istoria Bucureștilor. Din cele mai vechi timpuri pînă în zilele noastre
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went lengths to replace Grigorie-Voivode's rule in Wallachia (...)
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and a series of measures amounting to the emancipation of
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Mavrocordatos was wounded and taken prisoner by the
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Central European University Press. 868: 807: 862: 191:27 November 1735 – 16 September 1741 13: 14: 1288: 693:to another, in exchange for a 10 814: 347:February 1756 – 7 September 1758 230:16 September 1741 – 29 July 1743 152:16 April 1733 – 26 November 1735 16:Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia 113:24 October 1731 – 16 April 1733 905: 896: 887: 853: 844: 650:Seal of Constantin Mavrocordat 565: 517:: Κωνσταντίνος Μαυροκορδάτος, 74:15 September – 17 October 1730 1: 918: 902:Djuvara, p.59; Giurescu, p.93 850:Djuvara, p.48, 66–68, 254–255 609:Austro-Turkish War of 1737–39 931:, Humanitas, Bucharest, 1995 871:The Roma in Romanian History 681:". 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Index

Prince
Wallachia
Moldavia

Georg Friedrich Schmidt
Prince of Wallachia
Nicholas Mavrocordatos
Mihai Racoviță
Prince of Wallachia
Mihai Racoviță
Grigore II Ghica
Prince of Moldavia
Grigore II Ghica
Grigore II Ghica
Prince of Wallachia
Grigore II Ghica
Mihai Racoviță
Prince of Moldavia
Grigore II Ghica
John II Mavrocordatos
Prince of Wallachia
Mihai Racoviță
Grigore II Ghica
Prince of Moldavia
Grigore II Ghica
Iordache Stavrach
Prince of Wallachia
Constantin Racoviță
Scarlat Ghica
Prince of Wallachia

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