Mihai Racoviță

Mihai Racoviţă († 1744) was from September 1703 until February 23, 1705 July 31, 1707 to October 28, 1709 from 5 January 1716 to October 1726, finally in the years 1741-1744 ruler of Moldavia. Between his third and fourth reign, he had twice the rule in other Danube principality of Wallachia, held. He was related to the Phanariotenfamilie Cantacuzino through his mother and married a daughter of Moldavian prince Constantin Cantemir.

Domestically Racoviţă had to deal soon with the rival Bojarenparteien, from the outside it threatened several pretenders. The funds required by him he picked up on getting new levies and taxes and a constant raising of the old. 1705 finally followed him Antioh Cantemir. While Mihai Racoviţăs second rule learned the Sublime Porte of contacts of the Prince of Peter I of Russia. He was subsequently dismissed from his position and immediately exiled to Istanbul. His successor was named Nicolae Mavrocordat.

Because the opinion of the Turks, Racoviţă was adjusted anti- Austrian, he arrived in the Austrian- Turkish war of 1716/18 back to the top of the state. In Iasi, the Austrians were defeated with the help of the Tartars, their general Ferentz was beheaded ( what today still remembers the Ferentzkreuz ). Also found many Moldovans who made ​​a pact with the Imperialists, death. At the request of the Turks Racoviţă should advance in further consequence to Transylvania, in order to support the rebellion of Prince Rákóczi against the Viennese central power. However, the Moldovan hosts only came to Bistrita. There, the resistance was so great that one subsequently withdrew beyond the Eastern Carpathians.

As Mihai Racoviţă could not pay the Tartars, he allowed them to plunder the estates of the boyars. Another disaster represented the invasion of Hungarian troops under General Esterházy, the Magyar armies ravaged the land sustainably. Mihai Racoviţă went meanwhile any direct confrontation with the Esterházy out of the way, however, tormented the indigenous population with more and more taxes. His farm was populated at that time by many Greeks and Ottomans who enriched themselves side by side with Mihai Racoviţă.

Mihai Racoviţăs battle with Nicolae Mavrocordat to the Wallachian throne last went in favor Mavrocordats. Mihai Racoviţă subject, was deposed in the Vltava (successor: Grigore Ghica II ) and even landed in jail. It was not until 1730 he was able to take the rule in Bucharest. But already in the following year, he again lost the power in Wallachia. As by far the worst rule was that from 1741 to 1744, when he phanariotischen similar to the rulers ( yes, the ethnic Greeks, Albanians etc, but no Romanians ) was only intent on personal enrichment, so that the image of the Romanian historian of this ruler a is very negative.

Source

• Alexandru Xenopol, Virgil Mihăilescu - Bîrliba: Istoria Romanilor din Dacia Traiana. Volume 4: Istoria Modernă de la Matei Basarab şi Vasile Lupu pina la Fanarioţi, 1633-1821 Ed. . St. şi Enciclopedică, Bucharest 1993, ISBN 973-45-0016-3, p 476

• Prince ( Moldova )
• Prince ( Wallachia )
• Born in the 17th century
• Died in 1744
• Man