Stăpanitorii cetăţii Severin in secolul al XIV-lea / Lords of the Fortress of Severin in the 14thCentury
Jan. 1, 2016
Keywords:
Regatul Ungariei
Banatul de Severin
The Banate of Severin
Wallachia
The Hungarian Kingdom
The Ban of Severin
Political Institutions
Ţara Românească
Banul de Severin
Instituţii Politice
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Abstract
Since its foundation until its abolishion The Banat of Severin represent the hegeomonic ambitions of medieval
Hungary in the Lower Danube area. For the Romanian Rulers the conquest of Severin fortress, confirmed with
the official title, testified their political authority increase against the Hungarian kings. After the disappearance of
the first border mark who wanted to be the thirteenth century Banat of Severin, the new founded province, which
carried the same name become on object of dispute between the two neighbors. In fact throughouth fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries, for the Hungarian crow the Honore and revenues of the Banat of Severin was limiteted
to the same fortress and the management of the fortress from Timiş-Cerna Channel and those on the Danube,
upstream from Severin.
The conquest of the fortress by Romanian rulers was seized by adopting the title of Ban of Severin, thus, testifying
the territorial expansion of Wallchia to the western boundary of the Banat Highlands. In the mentioned period
the possession of the fortress was divided between the two countries, but with the time, in this dispute intervene
the Ottoman Turks.
