Visum Et Repertum

Why it began

They swept across the Bosphorus and into Eastern Europe with a vengeance, conquering the squabbling Slavs with ease. With them, they brought their middle eastern civilisation, and some of their beliefs, but mostly they brought suffering. Suffering in the form of syphilis, leprosy, smallpox, tuberculosis... and God Himself seemed to turn against them, sending flood, earthquakes, and plague.

Wallachia struggled under the heel of the Ottoman Turks for decades at the end of the 14th century, until Mircea the Great, allied with Sigismund of Luxembourg, led a crusade against the infidel in 1395. But the dynasty their saviour established was often more terrible than the Turk. The House named Bassarab whelped four generations of despots, beginning with Vlad.

 

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