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Romania in the "Book of All Kingdoms"

Last modified: 2011-06-11 by alex danes
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• Siluana
• Vecina

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• Romania
• Romania: Index of Pages

Siluana

image by Alex Danes, 27 July 2008

The 114th flag mentioned and illustrated in the Book of All Kingdoms is attributed to Siluana (a.k.a. Septen Castra and Horgimil; cp. Siebenbürgen and Ardeal), which is identified as Transylvania. The anonymous author of Book of All Kingdoms describes the flag thus: "E el rey dende ha por señales un pendón con un alfanje bermejo." ("The king has for a device a green flag with a red scimitar" as translated in [f0f12].) According to [f0f12] (#93 on plate 20 between p.60-61), the manuscript "S" [f0fXXs] shows this flag..
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 December 2007

Quote from Book of All Kingdoms: "From Maxar I went to the Kingdom of Siluana, which they call Septen Castra, and the Greeks call it Horgiml (Transylvania). It is encircled by two great rivers — the Turbo and the Lusim. The king has for his device a green flag with a red scimitar. The people are schismatic Christians."
Alex Danes, 27 July 2008

Vecina

image by Alex Danes, 27 July 2008

Quote from Book of All Kingdoms: "I left Constantinople and entered the Mare Mayor (Black Sea), proceeding along the coast of the left hand to a great city called Vecina (Vicina). Here nine rivers unite and fall into the Mare Mayor (Danube Delta). These nine rivers make a great commotion before this city of Vecina, which is the capital of the kingdom. It has a white flag with four red squares."

Vicina was a flourishing important port, under Genoese monopoly, at the Danube, in Northen Dobrudja, near the Danube Delta. The city disappeared sometime during the XVth-XVIIth centuries and today there still is a debate among historians about its precise location. In 1350, Central and Southern Dobrudja was part of the Principality of Dobrotici, the despot. Northen Dobrudja was part of a Tatar principality, under the reign of prince Demetrius. Whether Vicina was part of one or another's principality, I don't know. Romanian Wikipedia says that the Tatar principality was established around 1352, and Dobrotici conquered it and Vicina only in 1359.
Alex Danes, 27 July 2008

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