Seimeni

Seimeni

:"Seimeni is also a commune in Constanţa County, see Seimeni, Constanţa."

Seimeni (plural of "Seimen") designates the group of flintlock-armed infantry mercenaries charged with guarding the hospodar and his Court in 17th and 18th century Wallachia and Moldavia. They were mostly of Serb and other Balkan origin.

The designating term is of Turkish origin: "seğmen" means "young armed man". In modern transcriptions of Slavonic, it may also appear as "simén" (plural: "siméni") or "siimén" ("siiméni").

Rebellion

Menaced by the growing privileges of boyars and threatened to lose land grants or be turned into serfs, the Wallachian "seimeni" rebelled in 1655, being crushed after Prince Constantin Şerban enlisted the help of George II Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania, as well as that of Moldavia's Hospodar Gheorghe Ştefan.

After exercising a rule of terror in Bucharest, capturing and executing several boyars, they were decisively defeated by Rákóczi on June 26, 1655, in a battle on the Teleajen River.

ee also

*Serbs in Romania

References

*Gheorghe I. Brătianu, "Sfatul domnesc şi Adunarea Stărilor in Principatele Române", Bucharest, 1995
*Constantin C. Giurescu, "Istoria Bucureştilor. Din cele mai vechi timpuri pînă în zilele noastre", Bucharest, 1966, p. 73


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