Liga nobiliară de la Turda şi „revoluţia” Transilvaniei împotriva lui Mihai Vodă (1–18 septembrie 1600)
The league of nobles in Turda and the Transylvanian “revolution” against the voivode Michael the Brave (1–18 September 1600)

Summary/Abstract: The term “revolution” might seem intriguing for the reader, i.e. anachronic and out of context when describing an event that has taken place in the year1600. Nonetheless, “sibinbirgische Revolution” and “Revolution inn Siebenbirgen” were actual terms used by the Habsburg envoy Davind Ungnad between September the8 and 11 1600 in order to describe the insurrection led by the Transylvanian nobility and estates against the voivode Michael the Brave. At that time, this concept lacked any civic connotation, suggesting only an euphemism applied to a complex political and military phenomenon in Transylvania during the fall of 1600. Discontented with Michael the Brave’s military regime, the Transylvanian nobility and estates set up a camp in Turda and established diplomatic relations with the neighboring Christian powers, especially with the Habsburgs. On the 18 of September 1600, having already gained the military support of the Habsburg general Georgio Basta, the allied Transylvanian nobility defeated the voivode’s army in Mirăslău, thus entering under Habsburg rule. In the pages to follow, we aim to analyze this “revolution” of the Transylvanian nobility and estates in all its complexity, given that the Romanian historiography has seen this particular episode only as secondary to Michael the Brave’s epos or to the history of the Long Turkish War (1593–1600).

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