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Bust of Mihai Viteazul

Bust of Mihai Viteazul
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Settlement:
Marosvásárhely, Târgu Mureș
Address:
Piața Bernády György
Historical Hungarian county:
Maros-Torda
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.5459896157, 24.5659296815
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History

Mihai Viteazul was Voivode of Wallachia who raided and pillaged Transylvania murdering thousand of Hungarians and Saxons between 1599-1600. The Romanian falsification of history claims him to be the first great unifier, but in fact he unified nothing, he usurped power in Transylvania for a time as a governor of the Habsburg emperor, which he used for his activities mentioned above, and was therefore banished. It was he who desecrated and plundered the tombs of Hunyadi János and the Szapolyai dynasty in the cathedral of Gyulafehervár. His statue was donated to Marosvásárhely by the Prahova County Council in 2003 and moved to its current location in 2007, on Bernády György Square.

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