Despre titlul lui Mircea cel Bătrân, domn al Ţării Româneşti
On the intitulatio of Mircea the Elder, lord of Wallachia

Summary/Abstract: Two late notes, from the second half of the seventeenth century, record a rather unusual intitulatio, allegedly assumed by Mircea the Elder, lord of Wallachia (1386-1418). According to the first, Mircea has not only been lord of Wallachia, but he also ruled over “all the countries and cities up to the borders of Edirne”. The second note mentions, briefly, that Mircea “ruled up to the borders of Edirne”. This article reinterprets these two seventeenth century notes in the light of an original document issued by Mircea’s chancery. In an undated letter sent to the Polish king, Władysław Jagiełło, Mircea the Elder asserts in his title that he ruled over “many Turkish cities”. The present article suggests that Mircea assumed this title in the early 1390’s, after he undertook a military expedition across the Balkans Mountains and destroyed the Ottoman basis of akincı from Karinovası (Karnobat).

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