Walachian

/ wɒˈleɪkɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the former SE European principality of Walachia (now part of Romania) or its inhabitants

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Walachia

Example Sentences

This was due partly to the excessive proselytizing energy of the Angevins, which provoked rebellion on the part of their Greek-Orthodox subjects, partly to the natural dynastic competition of the Servian and Bulgarian The Vlachs. tsars, and partly to the emergence of a new nationality, the Walachian.

From Project Gutenberg

Prince Demetrius Ghica, who died as president of the Rumanian senate in 1897, was the son of the Walachian prince Gregory.

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His office is dominated by a painting of Michael the Brave, a Walachian prince who briefly united what is present-day Rumania for the first time in 1600.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is the chief port of entry for Walachia, and the headquarters of the grain trade; for, besides its advantageous position on the river, it is connected with the central Walachian railways by a line to Buzeu, and with the Russian and Moldavian systems by a line to Galatz.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1659 it was again burned by the Walachian prince Mircea, and for the time the Turks were expelled, but afterwards returned.

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