#Maria Radu

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Now, I don’t know if you guys know who these two couples👆🏾are BUT they are part of the Royal family of Romania. You may have see Margareta and Radu at the coronation and Jordanian royal wedding. They are semi-official in Romania. There’s a lot of talk of restoring the monarchy there. However, there is a TON of drama: Nicolas getting taken out of the line of succession, Radu’s (and Margareta) shady business deals, etc. they do a lot of great work for Romania, too. The plan is to start posting about them this week or next.

I’m just putting out some feelings. You guys tell me if you’re interested.

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Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005)

In today's review, I find that mutant monstrosities like a good dance tune like the rest of us. As I attempt a #positive review of Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave #AimeeLynnChadwick #CoryHardrict #JohnKeefe #JennyMollen #PeterCoyote

A teenager’s stereotypically reckless behaviour can be great fuel for keeping a film going. As they’re all for excess partying, dangerous stunts, and everything in between, even when faced with threats, they persevere, from viruses to the living dead. In 2005, jointly filmed with its previous film, Tarman and his pals got a send-off that they won’t soon forget in Return of the Living Dead Rave to…

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Poeziile lui Radu Gyr, puse pe note și animație de Maria-Antonia Alexandru

Proiectul tinerei artiste Maria-Antonia Alexandru, fiica renumitului compozitor Mihai Alexandru, ne-a bucurat și încântat inimile. Proiectul vine să scoată la lumină compoziții cenzurate ale marelui poet Radu Gyr, care a suferit ani grei de temniță în perioada regimului comunist. Această poezie, pusă pe note și animație de Familia Alexandru, face parte din volumul de poezii „Stele pentru leagăn”,…

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CD SHORTS: How can we find the descendants of Vlad the Impaler?

The Drăculești line of the Basarab dynasty has long since died out. However, it is likely that there are illegitimate descendants still around today. These individuals can be identified through new technologies. DNA collected from the graves of "Dracula's relatives" is compared with commercial genetic databases that show the degree of relatedness to millions of people. Which graves are we talking about? The grave in Sibiu of Mihnea the Bad, Vlad the Impaler's son, was emptied of bones by the 18th century. The graves of his sons in Hungary are unknown, and the claims of kinship by some Hungarian nobles are dubious or based solely on adoption. The only chance is Putna. Maria Voichița, the wife of Stephen the Great, was the daughter of Radu the Handsome, Vlad's brother. Her remains and those of her son, Bogdan III, are the only ones that contain Drăculești DNA. Now, all that is missing is the permission from the Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) to open these graves. More about Vlad the Impaler's grave and his relatives…

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Favorite films of 2023:

The Boy and the Heron, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

Mr. Bachmann and His Class, dir. Maria Speth

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, dir. Radu Jude

Godland, dir. Hlynur Pálmason

R.M.N., dir. Cristian Mungiu

20 Days in Mariupol, dir. Mstyslav Chernov

EO, dir. Jerzy Skolimowski

Fallen Leaves, dir. Aki Kaurismäki

Anatomy of a Fall, dir. Justine Triet

The Novelist's Film, dir. Hong Sangsoo

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Foreign Royals arrive for the Coronation Reception For Overseas Guests at Buckingham Palace ┃May 5th, 2023

In order:

King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan

King Felipe V and Queen Letizia of Spain

King Carl VXI Gustaf and Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden

King Philippe and Princess Elisabeth of Belgium

Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway

Princess Catharina-Amalia and Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands

Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark

Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco

King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan

Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria-Teresa of Luxembourg

Queen Anne Marie, Crown Prince Pavlos and Crown Princess Marie Chantal of Greece

 King Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida of Thailand 

Crown Prince Alexander and Princess Catherine of Serbia

Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco 

Margareta, Custodian of the Crown of Romania and Prince Radu of Romania

King of Tonga Aho'eitu Unuaki'otonga Tuku'aho Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipau’u of Tonga

Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa of Bahrain

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Prince Abdul Mateen of Brunei

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I hope you don't mind me dropping this on your ask (also i want to hear your thoughts on it hehe) but i've been thinking A LOT about how vlad would think about the whole stefan and maria voichița marriage. like bruh my buddy have beef with my brother ... and said buddy then he overthrow my bro (and maybeeeee killed him?? nobody's really know) .... and then keeping his family captive .... and then marry my bro's daughter ..... who is my niece ...... ????? there's just so much to unpack asdfghjsjsjsjussh

Dearest Anon! Thank you so, so much for this Ask — I love that you brought it up because I have also been thinking about it on several occasions! ❤️️ This was indeed a very… interesting turn of events skdjdskdsks so let’s unpack the whole family affair! I will do my best to express my thoughts both on how things happened (based on what we know) and how I reimagine them within Voievod (I have a hopeless weakness for messy family dynamics so this is very fun to work on).

Just to give a bit of context to those who might not know this part of Romania’s history, we know that Fănel Vodă was not fond of his cousin Radu… at all. He invaded Wallachia on several occasions during Radu’s reign (he even burned the Voivodal Palace in Bucharest, reconstructed by Vlad in 1459, pretty much to the ground) and helped dethrone him four times in response to Radu’s vassalage to the Ottomans. A very prominent clash came in 1471 when Radu met Ștefan in a battle near Soci — just like his big brother, Radu also fought Ștefan because of Chilia, though for different reasons. The last confrontation took place in 1475 when Radu lost his throne for good.

Radu’s first reign ended in November 1473, eleven years after he became the voivode (by the way, eleven years on the Wallachian throne is quite an accomplishment in those days, so it might indicate that Radu was not as hopeless as some people claim him to be). Here is where the family drama starts. At that time, Radu resided in the palace of Bucharest and, in November, he pretty much ran away in the middle of the night to avoid being captured by Ștefan’s men. That would be quite okay — but he left his wife and daughter behind, in the hands of the Moldavian voivode. Therefore, Ștefan took Radu’s wife and daughter as “hostages” and eventually married the daughter, Maria Voichița, in 1478. Ștefan was well into his forties at that time; Maria was a 21-year-old young woman.

Because Vlad and Ștefan resumed their close cooperation in 1475, I actually think that Vlad must have known that his niece and sister-in-law were held at the Moldavian court. That must have been quite a bizarre and uncomfortable situation. However, because Ștefan’s second wife, Maria of Mangup, died in 1477 (a year after Vlad), he probably didn’t really think about the possibility of his cousin marrying his niece. We will never know, and thus, I will not make attempts at trying to “figure out” how Vlad felt about that. Maybe he didn’t care at all. Hard to tell.

What is very interesting to consider, however, is the fact that Ștefan really married his cousin’s daughter. This was very unusual in both Moldavian and Wallachian customs — I did doublecheck just in case, and all previous Wallachian and Moldavian voivodes were married to noblewomen from foreign countries. Therefore, it really couldn’t have been seen as a norm to marry your own family, even if a more distant one. Then we also know that Bogdan (Maria Voichița and Ștefan’s son) married Ruxandra (Mihnea’s daughter, therefore Vlad’s granddaughter), so it gets a little Sweet Home Alabama there.

Now, moving on to Voievod musings (with as few spoilers as possible)!

The news of Radu’s escape (and its consequences) gets even to Vlad in exile. Needless to say, he is… not impressed. More like, really really disappointed and angry. He has a lot of conflicting feelings and opinions on that matter and is angry both with Radu (for running away like a coward and practically sacrificing his family) and Ștefan (for always being such a schemer and having the audacity to take Vlad’s own flesh and blood as hostages — especially a mother with daughter). Eventually, the pragmatic, voivodal side of him wins. Personal opinions aside, Radu is a Dracula, and as a fellow Dracula himself, Vlad takes his brother’s side in this case. If he cannot sit on the throne himself, then he prefers another of the Drăculești to rule, which is always better than one of the Dănești or, God forbid, Ștefan meddling in the affairs of his country too much. And Ștefan was indeed meddling in those a heck of a lot.

When the two begin to work closely together and become allies again, the most Vlad can do is try to bargain with Ștefan. Once again, Vlad is pulled into many different directions but, before the matters reach their conclusion, he is killed. He will never know that Ștefan ends up marrying Maria Voichița — if he lived to see that, he would be absolutely perplexed and fuming. He has seen a lot of bizarre things happen, but this one would be a bit too bizarre to his liking. Just imagine him: So my little cousin, who I used to consider a great friend once and then stabbed me in the back in the worst moment possible, and who had endless beef with my baby brother and tried to get rid of him and kill him several times, and who took my baby brother’s wife and daughter as hostages… now marries my baby brother’s daughter… my niece… my cousin marries my niece… What the heck?!

We do know that Maria Voichița had quite an influence upon the policy of her husband, so if he still lived, Vlad would be definitely excited about that (after shaking off the initial shock and coming to terms with the weird arrangement). He would be a very, very proud uncle. His niece, of the Drăculești blood, having the Moldavian voivode wrapped around her little finger? Very pleasing, very satisfactory. (He would so take an opportunity to scheme and meddle a bit himself. It would be a wasted opportunity if he didn’t.)

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Movies I watched this week (#176):

6 new Romanian films:

🍿 After listening to the angelic voice of Maria Coman, I wanted to re-visit some Romanian films.

Acasă, My Home, a raw, unexpected gem! A quiet documentary (with no music score!) about a family of feral Romas (9 kids and their stubborn parents) who live isolated from society, in a nature reserve just outside Bucharest. Filthy, proud, tight-knit and independent, they are eventually chased out of their shack and subsistence living, and struggle with their integration into the system. With a surprise cameo by Prince Charles (WTF?) who shows up for a UN ceremony to plant a tree. Sublime 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes. 9/10.

🍿 Betisoare rock n'roll (2010) a moving short about a deaf woman who goes to a concert, to find the singer. She's his mother who gave him up for adaption 35 years prior. 10/10.

🍿 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, an absurdist, post-modernist riddle by infant-terrible Radu Jude. A history teacher at a secondary school films a sex tape with her husband, but the video leaks on the internet. Everybody around her is scandalized and she has to attend a raucous free-for-all parent conference, where they get to vote if she should be expelled or not.

It's a wild, uneven film. It boldly opens with and features several hardcore pornographic scenes without any excuses. It also uses experimental / structuralist tropes a-la-Godard, which makes this into a jarring experience; The first act basically follows the teacher as she keeps walking through the noisy streets. The second act is a provocative pastiche of images and thought-bubbles which criticizes the schizophrenic, reactionary Romanian society today, dealing with ignorance, sexism, xenophobia, the trauma of history, as well as misinformation during the Covid years. The third act, of the 'trial' against the teacher, offers three different outcomes, including a surprising dream-vision where the teacher turns into Wonder Woman, and she fucks the mouths of all the attendees with a giant silver dildo.

🍿 I was planning on exploring Radu Jude's complete works, but (after that ^) I will continue another time. Instead, I just saw his first touching film The Tube with the Hat (2006). A village boy convinces his dad to take their broken TV set to a repairman in the city. Show, don't tell.

🍿 The dictator and his servant, an odd, experimental short from 1967. Found on 'Cinepub', a free YouTube channel with over 900 Romanian films. [*Female Director*].

🍿 2 Lottery Tickets (2016), a lighthearted and sweet comedy about 3 hapless, bumbling losers from a sleepy provincial town, who win the lottery but lose the ticket. Low-key, but assured directing style, follows wretched situation without condemnation. 8/10.

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Waking Ned is a 1998 feel-good Irish comedy that was the inspiration for '2 Lottery Tickets', the Romanian film above. The plot deals with Ned Devine who dies from a heart attack, when he hears on the telly that his numbers match the big lottery winning numbers. And with the whole tiny village which conspires to claim the big prize money. The simple, rustic wholesomeness is being excessively idolized, but it ends on a surprising twist. 5/10.

[Extra - Not-A-Movie-But - Spark, an infectious rap video that some County Cork kids just made!].

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Barbara Stanwyck X 3:

🍿 Meet John Doe, Frank Capra's wholesome, politically-naive tale. An average Joe Shmoe, an "Everyman", (but one who looks just like Gary Cooper), becomes a lightning rod for a populist 3rd party candidate. An ordinary citizen vs. money and corruption in government. 'Come together' and be 'Nicer to your neighbors'. (Screenshot Above).

🍿 "Use men - to get the things you want!"

Baby face was an extreme pre-Code story of a young woman using sex to advance in the world. Stanwick goes from a 14-year old daughter, sexually-abused by her pimp-father, to a serial seductress who heartlessly ends up with the president of the bank. No wonder The Hays Office was able to clamp down on morality and filth in the movie business around that time. Blatant whoring and early feminist sentiments, mixed with motivation born of reading some Nietzsche philosophy. Too much for the poor plebeians suffering from The depression. With a 2-line cameo by John Wayne. WOW! 8/10.

🍿 "Once I watched my big brother shave..."

Ball of Fire, a 1941 Howard Hawks screwball comedy with a ridiculous premise. A group of stodgy "professors", all bachelors except of one widower, live in an old-fashioned boarding house while writing an encyclopedia. The old men, all foreigners but Gary Cooper, know nothing about sex, but are all titillated when a young woman takes refuge there. They are anti-intellectual, creepy and infantile, and the whole story was difficult to swallow. 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes, but only 1/10 on mine.

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"These are fantastic mushrooms..."

(Not to be too personal, but I feel quite melancholic recently, what with the looming end of the world, destruction of all life, etc. So, the only remedy is to lose myself for the 15th, 16th, Nth time in Palm Springs, and forget that soon we'll all be dead too.) Another (very) frequent re-Watch ♻️.

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The slender thread was Sydney Pollack's first feature film, and also the first film featuring Dabney Coleman. A mixed bag social drama, with young Sidney Poitier working at the then-new suicide prevention hotline, and trying to save the life of Anne Bancroft, who had just ingested a bunch of pills. With a fantastic score by Quincy Jones, and evocative locations of 1965 Seattle. But the psychological play between the the two is dated and ham-fisted. Nobody today would treat her as clumsily and unprofessionally as it was then. 4/10.

RIP, Dabney Coleman!

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Challengers, the new Health and Wealth soft-core porn-drama for bi-curious teenagers. Tennis and Threesomes, served in a slick, non-linear package. Lush cinematography (and irritating tecno-score by the otherwise always-outstanding Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross). Surprisingly (or maybe not), it's the latest from Luca Guadagnino, but doesn't compare to his so much better 'Desire Trilogy'. I wish he would just stay in Italy! 4/10, mostly for the initial seduction scene.

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2 more with Denzel Washington:

🍿 My first by Carl Franklin, Devil in a Blue Dress, a 1948's LA Neo-Noir. It's obvious that they were going for a Chandler style 'Chinatown' clone, but with a black hero, Hunky Denzel in his white undershirt. There was a moment where they even say nearly verbatim "Just find the girl, Mr. Gittes" but without Noah Cross's deep, guttural voice, and definitely without his gravitas. 5/10.

🍿 The Equalizer, a re-watch ♻️. I felt like a silent vigilante movie, and this was is actually pretty good, especially the meticulous, quiet build-up. The violent action portions I could do without. 7/10.

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"...Daddy won't be living here anymore..."

Shut the Door. Have a Seat, one of Mad Men's greatest episodes, Season 3 finale. A perfectly-perfect 47 minutes of pure economic drama. Concise dialogue, compact story telling, classic build up. Everybody's invited to hear unexpected news, by being told to 'sit down'. And it ends with all the suffering characters, from the glacially-beautiful Betty Draper, to Sally, her 10 yer old daughter. moving on with their lives, while Roy Orbison sings 'Shahdaroba' in the background. "When a dream dies... And a heart cries... Shahdaroba Is the word they whisper alone..."Another regular 10/10 Re-Watch ♻️.

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3 by Dutch animator Mascha Halberstad:

🍿King sausage (2022) is a weirdly-animated musical about love among the offals. 2 butchers duke it out in a small town sausage competition. The descriptions of the meats are not for vegetarians. The language sounds extremely harsh. 7/10.

🍿 In Goodbye mister de Vries, a 93 year old man receives a package with his childhood skates, and tries to go skating on the ice one more time.

🍿In the weird Pregnant (2015) a guy pisses up on a pregnancy test thingie, to discover that he's expecting a baby. [*Female Director*].

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I only decided to give the new horror film For sale a try because it looks like the world I knew so well. Shady salesmen and dirty real estate tricks. I knew I would probably hate it, but maybe it will be accurate? However, the actor who played the sleazeball piece of shit Realtor had as much charisma as the character he played, and as soon as the standard "horror" tropes appeared on screen, it was time to pack it in. Couldn't finish it.

I still would like to find some realistic new real estate movies [besides '99 homes', 'The big short', 'Glengarry Glen Ross'...?]

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Chloë Sevigny’s debut film as a director, Kitty (2016). A little girl dreams of becoming a kitten, and then she turns into one. Moody and unsettling. [*Female Director*].

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2 First generation A.I. nightmares by obscure indie director Damon Packard:

🍿 The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings an imaginative agony of a on obese, middle-age cinephile, sitting at home on his computer, being hen-picked by his nagging Chinese wife, who doesn't appreciate his love for the art of moving pictures... All that played against Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably numb'. It hits too close to home. man! Made in 2023, which means that the A.I. is very passé, so this is nearly an historic document. Astounding 9/10!

🍿 The Sleeping Audience, another early onset nightmare fuel about mass scare, audiences sleeping through real messages about the end of the world, but waking up when the 'fake' movie starts. [Terrific, but the audience is all black for some reason- ?]

Apparently this guy had been making indie movies under the rader for 40 years. Many more of his new A.I. shorts can be found on his YouTube channel. (Including the nightmarish Welcome to the machine, which is based on the famous photo of Roger Waters riding the subway...)

(My r/truereddit post about him was deleted for some reasons...)

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(My complete movie list is here).

[aimeedaisies]

Members of other royal families who attended the coronation of Their Majesties, King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey - 06/05/23

Europe

King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium 🇧🇪

Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark (representing the Queen of Denmark) 🇩🇰

Alois, Hereditary Prince and Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein (representing the Prince of Liechtenstein) 🇱🇮

Grand-Duke Henri and Grand-Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg 🇱🇺

Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco 🇲🇨

King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands 🇳🇱

Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (representing the King of Norway) 🇳🇴

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain 🇪🇸

King Carl XVI Gustaf and Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden 🇸🇪

Asia

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa of Bahrain 🇧🇭

King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan 🇧🇹

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Prince 'Abdul Mateen of Brunei 🇧🇳

Crown Prince Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah of Kuwait (representing the Emir of Kuwait) 🇰🇼

Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko of Japan (representing the Emperor) 🇯🇵

King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan 🇯🇴

Yang di Pertuan Agong and Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia 🇲🇾

Theyazin bin Haitham Al Said, Crown Prince of Oman (representing the Sultan of Oman) 🇴🇲

Emir and Sheikha Jawaher bint Hamad of Qatar 🇶🇦

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi (representing the Emir of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates) 🇦🇪

Prince Turki bin Mohammed Al Saud of Saudi Arabia (representing the King of Saudi Arabia) 🇸🇦

King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida of Thailand 🇹🇭

Africa

King Mswati III and Inkhosikati LaMbikiza of Eswatini 🇸🇿

King Letsie III and Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho 🇱🇸

Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco (representing the King of Morocco) 🇲🇦

Oceania

King Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipa’u of Tonga 🇹🇴

Ceremonial monarchs

Asantehene and Lady Julia of Asante 🇬🇭

Māori King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII and Queen Te Atawhai 🇳🇿

Members of defunct foreign royal families

Margrave Bernhard and Margravine Stephanie of Baden 🇩🇪

Tsar Simeon II and Tsaritsa Margarita of Bulgaria 🇧🇬

Landgrave and Langravine of Hesse 🇩🇪

Prince Philipp and Princess Saskia of Hohenlohe-Langenburg 🇩🇪

Margareta of Romania (Custodian of the Crown of Romania) and Prince Radu of Romania 🇷🇴

Queen Anne-Marie, Crown Prince Pavlos and Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of the Hellenes 🇬🇷

Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine of Yugoslavia 🇷🇸

[gretasworld]

If sultan Mehmed was born in 1432 and Vlad in 1431, then they are peers. Dracula’s brother Radu was born in 1438.

Radu is 6 years younger than Mehmed and 7 years to Drac. The Western bullshiters have always portrayed Mehmed as a rapist and molester of Radu.

Notice when Vlad and his younger brother were held in Ottoman court, Mehmed was just around their ages and it was Mehmed's father Murad who was in power then. Is it logical then that Mehmed abused Radu in any way being that young ?

All these Hollywood western movies portrayed the sultan and Radu in false light so far. Deliberately so and kept on glorifying the sick Dracula. Come on, show each for who and what they are damn it.

[ Comes down to religion and power clash actually. ]

Some Greek motherfucker, hater of Ottomans, wrote chronicles on homosexual relation between Radu and Mehmed did so coz they were both Muslims and because they needed to be colored in negative light in the pages of history books according to the sentiments of the Byzantines and Serbs. After losing against Ottomans, these chronicles stirred up. The chronicles of the Greek motherfucker says they had good relations and then one day a drunk Mehmed approached Radu to butt fuck him but Radu used a sharp knife against him to save himself. If Radu and the Sultan were friends, would Radu use a knife on him ? And if he did so, why were the guys then still allies in the Ottoman force for the rest of the days ? Things donot match up right ? Obviously they donot.

Sickening fanfiction and art exists of the sultan and radu which naturally offends Muslim community. Scholars confirm it. Some scholars have protested this offense from fandom.

But still now some pro rainbow websites are trying to tag Radu and Mehmed as so called marginalized community members. Bro really ! Fuck you. Muslims and you are not under the same umbrella. Donot tag yourselves with muslims. Never call them marginalized. Muslims will take over within next 20 years as the largest global population and they have no place for rainbow freaks in their religion or culture.

Next we have an info on Internet saying Radu, a revert Muslim, died of Syphilis, he got ass fucked so much by men he ended up dead. Really? The Greek haters tagged him as queer, overlooking his family,his daughter and legacy as much as possible all coz he changed his religion and sided with Ottomans. And now the lgbt crazies make fanfiction of him calling him gay and shit. Recruiting more members in your community are we ? You offend Muslims as much as Romanians by doing to these historical figures what you do. They are not part of you.

Source number 2 says Radu disappeared from pages of history. Lol. 🤣 where did he disappear?

Source number 3 says Radu was killed by Stephen, best friend of Drac, who later on, married Maria Voichița, daughter of Radu and Despina,Princess of Albania. What a bloody warped record of voivodes. 👏😳

In the picture : Wax statue of Maria Voichița, Princess of Moldavia, wife of Stephen and daughter of Radu and Despina.

( moldavia museum )

[yanderepuck]

@spoopy-fish-writes

Maria yelling at Nicoleta and Radu to get married already bc they are cuddling together on the couch.. aka Nicoleta is half laying down and Radu is on her lap.

Also fun fact: at random times Radu likes to remind everyone he is royalty when he starts to get a complex

[culturoro]

Maria Kenzo lansează noul single „Atunci când ne iubeam”

Interpreta Maria Kenzo (Ștefania Maria Petcu) lansează la început de iarnă cea mai nouă piesă, „Atunci când ne iubeam”, compusă și produsă de către interpretul și producătorul din Republica Moldova, EL Radu și echipa sa muzicală. Citește întreg articolul aici…

[voievod]

THE DRĂCULEȘTI

— Vlad Drăculea. — ( oc: if i cannot move heaven i will raise hell )

— Vlad Dracul. — ( oc: the dragon )

— Vasilisa of Moldavia. — ( oc: petals edged with fire )

— Mircea Drăculea. — ( oc: of burning martyrdom )

— Alexandra of Wallachia. — ( oc: keeper of secrets )

— Radu Drăculea. — ( oc: cel frumos )

— Vlad Călugărul. Vlad Dracul’s youngest son, born out of a relationship with Călțuna. A pretender to the Wallachian throne.

— Mircea. Vlad Drăculea’s eldest son, born out of a relationship with Cătălina.

— Mihnea. Vlad Drăculea’s second son, born out of a relationship with Cătălina. The designated successor to the Wallachian throne.

— Vlad. Vlad Drăculea’s youngest son, born out of a marriage with Ilona Hunyadi.

— Maria Voichița. Radu Drăculea’s daughter, born out of a marriage with Maria Despina.

THE DĂNEȘTI

— Vladislav II.

— Dan the Pretender.

THE WALLACHIANS

— Cătălina Costescu. — ( oc: sanctuary )

— Dracea de Măneşti.

— Dumitu Costescu.

— Neagoe Craiovescu.

— Manea Udriște.

— Voico Dobrița.

— Cazan al lui Sahac.

— Stoica Paharnic.

— Oprea Logofăt.

— Albu cel Mare.

THE MOLDAVIANS

— Ștefan cel Mare. — ( oc: cel mare )

— Bogdan II. The Moldavian voivode. Father of Ștefan cel Mare.

— Oltea. Bogdan’s concubine and mother of Ștefan cel Mare.

— Maria. Oltea’s daughter from her previous marriage.

THE OTTOMANS

— Mehmed the Conqueror. — ( oc: golden child; lion boy )

— Murad II. The sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Mehmed the Conqueror’s father.

— Bayezid. Mehmed the Conqueror’s eldest son, born to Gülbahar Hatun.

— Mustafa. Mehmed the Conqueror’s second and favourite son, born to Gülşah Hatun.

— Cem. Mehmed the Conqueror’s youngest son, born to Çiçek Hatun.

— Molla Gürâni.

— Çandarlı Halil Pasha.

— Hamza Pasha.

— Thomas Katavolinos.

— Mahmud Pasha.

— Gedik Ahmed Pasha.

THE HUNGARIANS

— János Hunyadi.

— Erzsébet Szilágyi. János Hunyadi’s wife and the mother of László Hunyadi and Matthias Corvinus.

— Mihály Szilágyi.

— László Hunyadi.

— Ilona Hunyadi. János Hunyadi’s illegitimate daughter. Vlad Drăculea’s first wife and the mother of his youngest son, Vlad.

— Matthias Corvinus. János Hunyadi’s younger son. The king of Hungary.

— Ladislaus the Posthumous.

[goalhofer]

2024 olympics Romania roster

Archery

Mădălina Amăistroaie (Suceava)

Athletics

Alin Firfirică (Timișoara)

Andrei Toader (Râmnicu Vâlcea)

Alexandru Novac (Adjud)

Andrea Miklós (Cluj-Napoca)

Stella Rutto (Bucharest)

Delvine Relin-Meringor (Bucharest)

Joan Chelimo-Melly (Bucharest)

Alina Rotaru-Kottmann (Bucharest)

Diana Ion (Bucharest)

Elena Taloș (Câmpulung)

Bianca Ghelber (Roman)

Daniela Stanciu (Buftea)

Boxing

Lenuța Perijoc (Siret)

Canoeing

Oleg Nuță (Bucharest)

Ilie Sprîncean (Criuleni, Moldova)

Cătălin Chirilă (Tulcea)

Cycling

Molnár Ede-Károly (Suceava)

Fencing

Mălina Călugăreanu (Bucharest)

Gymnastics

Andrei Muntean (Sibiu)

Ana Bărbosu (Focșani)

Lilia Cosman (Deva)

Amalia Ghigoarță (Lugoj)

Andreea Preda (Constanța)

Sabrina Maneca-Voinea (Constanța)

Annaliese Dragan (Bucharest)

Judo

Alex Creț (Oradea)

Rowing

Andrei Lungu (Bucharest)

Iliuță-Leontin Nuțescu (Suceava)

Andrei Mândrilă (Chișinău, Moldova)

Bogdan-Sabin Baitoc (Bucharest)

Claudiu Neamțu (Dorohoi)

Mihai Chiruță (Suceava)

Andrei Cornea (Broșteni)

Marian Enache (Târgu Cărbunești)

Florin Horodișteanu (Dorohoi)

Ioan Prundeanu (Fălticeni)

Florin Arteni-Fîntînariu (Suceava)

Florin Lehaci (Câmpulung)

Sergiu Bejan (Suceava)

Ștefan Berariu (Dumbrăveni)

Ciprian Tudosă (Fălticeni)

Marius Cozmiuc (Suceava)

Constantin Adam (Călărași)

Mugurel Semciuc (Suceava)

Mihăiță Țigănescu (Suceava)

Adrian Munteanu (Orșova)

Emanuela-Ioana Ciotău (Radauti)

Ioana-Madalina Moroșan (Siliștea)

Alexandra Ungureanu (Bucharest)

Ionela Cozmiuc (Câmpulung Moldovenesc)

Gianina Van Groningen (Gura Humorului)

Nicoleta Bodnar (Vatra Moldoviței)

Simona Radiș (Botoșani)

Patricia Cireș (Bucharest)

Roxana-Iuliana Anghel (Câmpulung Moldovenesc)

Iona Vrînceanu (Târgu Neamț)

Adriana Adam (Văleni)

Amalia Bereș (Pașcani)

Maria Lehaci (Câmpulung)

Maria-Magdalena Rusu (Vaslui)

Victoria-Ștefania Petreanu (Constanța)

Sailing

Ebru Bolat (Constanța)

Swimming

David Popovici (Bucharest)

Vlad-Ștefan Stancu (Bucharest)

Rebecca-Aimee Papuc-Diaconescu (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Table tennis

Ovidiu Ionescu (Buzău)

Andrei Ionescu (Buzău)

Szőcs Bernadette (Bremen, Germany)

Elizabeta Samara (Constanța)

Adina Diaconu (Slatina)

Tennis

Irina-Camelia Begu (Bucharest)

Ana Bogdan (Cluj-Napoca)

Jacqueline Cristian (Bucharest)

Monica Niculescu (Bucharest)

Triathlon

Felix Duchampt (Clermont-Ferrand, France)

Water polo

Marius-Florin Țic (Oradea)

Francesco Iudean (Bucharest)

Matei Luțescu (Bucharest)

Tudor-Andrei Fulea (Bucharest)

Andrei-Radu Neamțu (Bucharest)

Andrei Prioteasa (Slatina)

Andrei Țepeluș (Bucharest)

Nicolae Oanță (Slatina)

Silvian Colodrovschi (Aix-En-Provence, France)

Vlad-Luca Georgescu (Bucharest)

Sebastian Oltean (Bucharest)

Levente Vancsik (Bucharest)

Eduard Drăgușin (Bucharest)

Weightlifting

Mihaela Cambei (Dofteana)

Loredana Toma (Botoșani)

Wrestling

Răzvan Arnăut (Constanța)

Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu (Botoșani)

Andreea Ana (Mangalia)

Ince Kriszta (Sfântu Gheorghe)

Cătălina Axente (Galați)