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| The last{{specify|date=September 2012}} known document attesting the Universitas Valachorum is dated May 1355, as the general assembly of the ] (''congregatio generalis'') was summoned in ]/Torda.<ref>Pop I.-A., ''L’assemblée générale des Etats de Transylvanie de mai 1355'', Transylvanian Review, IX, 2000, pp. 36 - 45</ref> | The last{{specify|date=September 2012}} known document attesting the Universitas Valachorum is dated May 1355, as the general assembly of the ] (''congregatio generalis'') was summoned in ]/Torda.<ref>Pop I.-A., ''L’assemblée générale des Etats de Transylvanie de mai 1355'', Transylvanian Review, IX, 2000, pp. 36 - 45</ref> | ||
| The last page of the history of ''Universitas Valachorum'' was written in 1437, as Transylvania witnessed the official establishment of the "brotherly union" or ''fraterna unio'' ], that is, a community or gathering (''universitas'') of nobles, Saxons and ], with the view of defending the country against the ] threat and the inner danger of rebellious peasants.{{cn|date=September 2012}} The adoption of the Unio Trium Nationum, which implicitly excluded the Estate of Romanians, gave constitutional sanction to the end of the Universitas Valachorum.{{cn|date=September 2012}} | |||
| ==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
| <sup>1</sup>''Olachorum'' is ] for ''Olachus'', Latin form of '']'', meaning "Romanian" | <sup>1</sup>''Olachorum'' is ] for ''Olachus'', Latin form of '']'', meaning "Romanian" | ||
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Universitas Valachorum (Estate of the Vlachs) is the Latin denomination for an Estate, an institution of self-government of the Romanians in medieval Transylvania.
The structure of the Universitas Valachorum placed the leadership of common Romanians upon their own nobility (Voivodes, Knez), enjoying a jurisdiction based on their own laws (Jus Valachicum). In the face of external danger such as Tatars, Cumans, Saracens and other pagans (omnino Tartarorum vel Cumanum Saracenum vel Meugarium) the Universitas of Romanians was called together with the other Estates of Transylvania (universisque nobilibus Ungarorum, Saxonibus, Syculis et Volachis) to defend Christian faith - Letter of Lodomerus, archbishop of Esztergom, 1288
The last known document attesting the Universitas Valachorum is dated May 1355, as the general assembly of the Estates (congregatio generalis) was summoned in Turda/Torda.
Notes
Olachorum is Latin genitive plural for Olachus, Latin form of Vlach, meaning "Romanian"
References
- Müller Friedrich: Haben 1288 im Hermannstadter Gau und im Burzenland neben den Sachsen auch ungarische Adlige, Szekler und Rumänen gewohnt?, Siebenbürgische Vierteljahrschrift, Hermannstadt, 58/1935 Nr 4, pp.281-296
- Pop I.-A., L’assemblée générale des Etats de Transylvanie de mai 1355, Transylvanian Review, IX, 2000, pp. 36 - 45
Further reading
- Binder Pál, South-transylvanian antecedents and consequences of the formation of the Principality Muntenia, Századok, Budapest, 1995/5
- Pop I.-A., Instituţii medivale româneşti. Adunări cneziale şi nobiliare în secolele XIV XVI, Cluj-Napoca, 1991, pp. 9 – 26
- Pop I.-A., Nations and Denominations in Transylvania (13th - 16th Century) p. 111 - 125, In Tolerance and Intolerance in Historical Perspective, edited by Csaba Lévai et al., Edizioni PLUS, Università di Pisa, 2003