Kingdom of Wallachia

Wallachia in 749

The **Kingdom of Wallachia** (Romanian: *Țara Românească*; Vlach: *Locul Romãnesc*, LIT. The Romanian Place) is a non-Slavic Balkan country. While they speak Vlach (also known as Macedo-Romanian or Aromanian), there are little no one translators for this language. As a result, we will mostly be using modern day Romanian for the translations.

## History

The foundation of the city of Pitești in 734 by the new king has united the people in the areas adjacent to the Danube after the declaration of the kingdom of Wallachia and our people dedicated to promoting the idea of a nation all along the Danube river so people join our great nation. Now that several people found in the Danube organized in one single nation hence we must prosper as one great nation.

737 AD

After 3 years united in the several people that now are part of our great union of Romanian we have declared the king that will guide us for the years to come under one single kingdom. The Kingdom of Wallachia came into existence after the now King Ionut Jdeirou

fought Huns in the mountain that were trying to settle their camps but he repelled the invaders from expanding their influence furthermore hence he declared in the small villages of Pitești that all Romanian from the south of the mountain shall protect themselves from foreign invaders and grow our villages.

737 AD

Today the Queen of the Vlachs gave birth to the ugliest royal member we have ever seen. Hopefully she is the last ugly royal member, however to celebrate the birth of his child the king gathered men to hunt in the western parts of the territories to explore the coast, and meet with the great new to our brothers in the north. The expedition will take place to map our domains and search for more Vlachs.

738 AD

The expeditions continue and the king decides to settle a new village in the open waters of the black sea near the Moldavian city (IDK if that is the name IRP) of Contanza, this city will be the place where the Vlach will do trade with the greater empire that we will find the near future and place of our next royal expansion. The settlement and future port is named Mangalia after the lady that greeted us and gave us food on the coast.

738 AD

Long time has passed since the King built the settlement of Mangalia and our influence in the region made it clear that we must increase the connectivity with the region of Dobrudja with a massive bridge so our people can easy reach across the great Danube river hence in the future trade in this area will be viable and secure. Although this track has seen some activity of the barbaric tribes of the north lately; we will assure our dominance in the Danube and protect our kingdom of Vlachs with our brave men garrisoned along the Danube and the east.

738 AD

Our Project to connect the region of Dobruja has encounter several impediments along the construction of the bridge and the proto-roads leading to it due to the presence of Bulgarians that we encounter along the river with horrible intends against our people and Avars but our men gracefully with the sacrifice have repelled them, and soon in one year or less we will finish the great construction that will function as a safe connection between our settlement that have grown a little bit. Perhaps somehow our constructors and soldiers founded a city in the vicinity of the construction, the village was named Silistra and was located across the Danube.

738 AD

Our presence in the Dobruja regions is very clear as now without bridge that is the final stages of construction; so we must take control of the region to secure the power of our Kingdom and trade through the means of water. This effort will be held by the soldiers and Vlachs that have welcomed us to their homes hence we will protect those who have been so gentle to us.

739 AD

Development of fortresses along the Danube to secure the resources of our kingdom; we expect them to be prepared in a year and the western most part of the country in months because of the presence of more Bulgarians.

739 AD

As our fortresses are construction we have experience less attack from Bulgars that come to take some of our resources to appropriate them and we have encounter more of them with more noble intention like commerce or just travelers exploring the area; however, we have warned to advice those the came into contact to not threaten the security of anyone living in Wallachia as that will be a aggression to the kingdom itself, and we might start a campaign against those who have done damage to Vlachs.

739 AD

We are falling somewhat short of money to continue the projects to fortify the cities along the Danube so we are applying a tax on our people to fund this projects. The tax in the country is some amount of gold or any kind of resource that will help the constructors and soldiers.

739 AD

The campaign of union, the King launched a campaign to unite all Vlachs under the single rules of the King Ionut. The campaign will follow the ending of the forts along the Danube that will ensure the safety of the Vlachs and project our presence in the region of Scythia Minor. This campaign will have as a goal to offer the people living south of the Danube our protection and lands taken from pillagers and barbaric tribes entering Vlachs lands. We will venture through Scythia Minor peacefully but armed in case Bulgarians show up offering locals to join our realm.

740 AD

Today is a day of praise for Vlachs. Several villages and their chiefs in the south have agree to join us under the mantle of Wallachia however we have more land the travel past the mountains in search of more Vlachs that will be willing to join our kingdom and protection for the small price of the national tax and pleading loyalty to the Coroană Valahi.

740 AD

Our presence in the region of Scythia minor is now well remarked as we have been accepted by the Vlachs in the plain before the great mountains. Tales of a powerful Vlach tribe was told to us by the people in the mountainous areas; they way of living is not as peaceful like our they prefer to attack any foreigner rather than give them the opportunity to keep the peace and they have become more closed from their brothers because of the Avars that were not as kind to them like they were to us hence we might not give them the chance of a peaceful annexation of the lands they own. Our messenger is protected by a Contubernium to ensure the safety of the messengers.

740 AD

Our conveyance or what was left of it didn't bring us good news about the hills and mountains in the south, these actions committed by our brothers in the south were uneventful for our plans in Scythia minor. We must prepare our troops for yet another diplomatic mission with the purpose of offering the Vlachs the opportunity to surrender their lands  to our great king that offers protection of their people in exchange for some tax. We don't seek to kill our own but the Vlachs are part of Wallachia.

741 AD

Soon after recalling all the men in the kingdom we will commence the campaign in the south with the focus of uniting the Vlachs under one king.

742 AD

As our troops started ascending the Balkan mountains in the south we were attacked by some men scouting the areas like our sources indicated. This little skirmish between our troops and those scouts formally initiated our invasion to the mounts and hills in the rest of Scythia minor. To scare off our enemies we let one scout escape as we massacred his friends and dismembered their bodies. We continued to march through securing our position in the mountains and establishing camps to maintain our food supply and pack our 16 dead men.

742 AD

In the mountain while we are exploring the area we devise an enemy encampment. Our attack began in the morning; we encircled the camp with hundred men running towards their tents trapping them inside, piercing the fabric with our swords and killing the guards in routine surrounding the area leaving again one survivor left. 19 dead.

742 AD

Now it's time to descend the mountains and kill those who oppose the reign of the king in the lands of the Vlachs. Sofia a little village where we started attacking the soldiers as we descended and started sieging the little fort in the area with our men throwing arrows in flames and surrounding the whole fort striking the entrance with our axes and swords rampaging it. During the siege the rest of our troops fought in the village near a swamp making our soldiers muddy resulting in us taking several casualties in the process. The soldiers entered the fort after cutting a tree and ramping it against the door and we took control of the fort ending the presence of the chief in the but the battle in the village was not finished because some of the enemy soldiers escaped to the village hence we patrol the village and make the village surrender to our troops so they did. Our first win was 63 dead.

742 AD

"WE CONTINUE descending", the king and his son exclaimed to the troops and selected some men to patrol the area we just conquered. Now to Plovdiv the home of the Chief Mihai Aldea will fall in the hands of the royal family with the cavalry reserve to the hilly parts of the region. The cavalry began to run to the village covered in a stone wall. The soldiers suddenly pop out of the walls and prepare their shield to block the cavalry with their spear and the support of archers in towers inside the village. The Shields held some cavalry men tight but the rest broke through the line the the enemy men started fighting with their swords so we did, first killing the shield while the cavalry dealt with the soldiers after the shield men were disorganized and slaughter by our men then the soldiers supported the cavalry to push the enemy back. As they ran for their lives we rained arrows over them taking many desperate lives while the men brought the tree we cut off to siege the last for in Sofia rolling it down the hill leading it to impact the wall which cause almost to no damage but drop of some rocks from the top, when our men got to the door support and with one impact we knocked the door off the wall and entered the village in search of the chief Mihai Aldea as we decimated anyone impeding us the path. Finally we ended the war in the house of the leader of the lands and captured him. He was there defeated and about to die in the hands of the prince, he offered his daughter in sign of peace between our nations which we accepted. LONG LIVE TO THE KING AND THE KINGDOM OF WALLACHIA.

744 AD

After the marriage of our new princess with the prince that led with his father the troops to the south we need to organise the south to make it safe for our people to get into those areas. The fort/village of Pilov was planned to be expanded and be connected to the capital city in several years by the roads we will be making to assert our power.

744 AD

Dealing with old allies.

Due to the expulsion of the Avars in the western kingdoms (Croatia and them) we have found several of them entering our realm in search of settlement and safety after the unfortunate movement of their people. Although our soldiers were fighting Avars once in the conquest of the south because they were servants of the chief, we are willing to accept them. We can use our old allies as troops in the years to come against those Bulgarians that dare to enter our borders seeking good with violence.

745 AD

During the peace agreement and the acquisition of the lands that now must be converted into duchies to have control of the happening the south we agreed with the chief he will have her own duchy as a form of acknowledging his past power in the region hence one of the future duchies of the south will be the Duchy of Plodiva.

745 AD

Now our coast are big and expand various territories of land, however we got not presence of the sea that is before our land hence we have issued the best artisans and constructors of the region to build the first Nef Marchande like our byzantine brothers so be can trade with other kingdoms through the water.

746 AD

Our great architects have finalize not one, not two but 5 Nef Marchande inspired by our byzantine brothers in search of trade along the Mediterranean where many great empire emerge and kingdoms might be keen to trade with our growing nation bringing us riches to our people and connecting ourselves with new people. Our king is doing ok for now.

746 AD

The king's health is in danger, our king is suffering from a terrible fever that has engaged him in his bedroom with his doctors. Soon we will see how his fever will be cured.

747 AD

The king didn't die from the fever and he is doing well soon he will be 100% ok again.

747 AD

Across his illness he wished his welfare but god did not responded to his cries for help while in his bed, the sunni doctor that help him told him that he always prayed for his king because he was the protector of the Vlachs and moved by this words the king prayed to allah for hell and he responded in the kindest of words in his ears. He will protect him from this illness, soon after his total recuperation he recited the Shahada among several Muslim mates to began his journey with the true god and the only messenger of Mohammed. He began a journey to the Alqistantinia in a mission for protection since our moldovian brothers fell in the hands of the Khazar tribes seeking for the help of the caliph in this scary situation the Vlachs are living.

748 AD

The conversion of our king to the Islam, the true religion, have brought us many things good: from more religious tolerance from our noble men that normally would repress some catholic or Muslim minorities which are little but they were very segregated upon those groups, we shall protect all Vlachs of all religions and we encourage people to practice their one religion.

749 AD

IN the capital the king decides to build three temples to express the tolerance we the Vlachs have for the many other religions across Europe. One temple is for the Catholics, the other one is for the orthodox and the final one is for the Muslims. These three monuments of unity will go on with the public funding and the money confiscated for those seeking trouble after the king's true pathways. Our prince fanatic of the byzantine and the history that preceded our adventure to find the now not so rulers of Rome to offer them a visit to our prosperous kingdom.

   749 AD

The child of the prince arrived at the moment of the death of the King Ionut Jderoiu while he was having a happy night with his wife celebrating the day they married several years ago. The death of the king occurred moments before Maria entered labor and the baby was about to be born. This devastated new weren't transmitted to the prince until the baby was in his hands the counsellor and personal friend of the king that wont influence the decision of the next king told the prince his father died with a smile in his face and the wish of continuing following the path of Islam which made happy the prince but he wont be following Islam however he will do something. The sad news of the death of the king called a day of mourning for the population of Wallachia and a statue is planned to be erected in this honor in the city he grew up in. Islam will be followed by Marius Jderoiu Aldea the new prince.

749 AD Maria is catholic !? Unknown to the royal family with obvious evidences Maria the new queen is catholic but kept secret until the day one day she confessed to the king she was taught in to follow the catholic church but still loved him with all her heart; she argued that she was terrified if the family ever discovered but know that their child is a Muslim she has opened to her husband.

750 AD In the past our great prince travelled in the byzantine territories searching for the dead byzantine empire due to its importance in the European world and maybe offer them asylum in a more stable country, now the king found their kingdom and cordially invited them to our palace offering them asylum in our realm and a offer to get them goods in exchange of a moderate item.

751 AD During the ceremony where we invited the last emperor and empress of the roman empire and offered them asylum and money for the title of the Roman empire and the claims. Our offer offended them quite severely because we threaten them as an object but we quickly assert that we want to protect them from other you wanna claim the title to themselves and an orthodox nation like ours will be grateful to protect them with economic aid and asylum. We bought the title to Roman emperor Title and the claims.

751 AD Upon our acquisition of the Roman titles and claims of the Roman empire we found our selves on the situation to expand the power of our family to preserve the power within our kingdom rather than giving our claims to foreign powers hereby announce the marriage of princess Andreea Jderoiu Pacuraru to the duke Mihail Ursu Roșu. In other notice we are happy to announce that our country is doing fantastic.

751 AD Since our new titles our king has gotten very loving and warm with the queen mostly at nights when the halls of the palace are covered by the cries for more love by the queen to this husband. The result of such loving times the king and queen shared for sometimes days long were three magnificent babies whom only two survived the birth but the sadness was no places in the birthday of three amazing souls. The twins Alin Jderoiu Aldea and Costin Jderoiu Aldea, two beautiful babies.

751 AD Our amazing king sent expeditions to the north to assert our power in the more mountainous regions populated by Vlachs. The aim of this expedition is not to merely show our power and tell our stories but to spread lifestyle of our people and settle the chiefs of many tribes to join us under the rule of the royal house that will bring nothing but advantages to the people living in those places. The leading royal of the mission are the Princess Andreea and the duke of Montana Mihail, both area accompanied by soldiers to ensure the safety of the family they will unite the Transylvanian Vlachs.

752 AD Our expedition are going swimmingly although we have encounter some of those Bulgars that are so despicable but we organize the families of the people and promise them to stay in control of the land they own but they shall be protected by the hand of the queen of Transylvania. Soon the roads issued to be constructed will end and connections to Transylvania will start and stay forever.

752 AD Now with the people organize in the region of Transylvania, not that i killed several chiefs or bribe most, we must establish the monarchy in this lands we got control, however we will give a different approach this time as to not get too big for managing our own country and losing the control of our people like our enemies in the north-east. We will establish my dear sister as the governor of this region and so we shall take control of this disorganize area that is at the mercy of the Bulgarian and the horde that recently separated from our not so friend neighbors in the north, however we will stop any attempt of invasion in the Transylvanian plateau. Hail Princess Andreea.

753 AD Coal is a product we produce a lot in great quantities hence our king has planned to dedicate some money into upgrading the carbon mines located in the Carpathian mountains so our people don't die as much in the extraction of mineral or when they are getting them to the markets. We will attempt to expand the roads so horses do not have fears and increase the garrison in the areas to avoid any attack to the miners plus we will start buying some to store and fuel our future projects.

754 AD Our latest project is now completed henceforth we must continue to grow our power but now we shall focus on the people that do not agree with the Dealuri family and our decision to always have at the very least having one Muslim member in our family but we seek to have more family that follows the Islam. Our new objective meanwhile will be the renovation of my army and implementation of a navy that isn't that expensive, firstly we must train our men more to ensure our people are safe so we will send them to train to the mountains and second check our military and naval expenses.

754-760 AD Little dark age The queen died, many children born, we founded a good navy after two years and we lay claims in Bulgarian lands. Union of the bunch The creation of the Principality of Ardeal brought unbalance to the political stability shared by the dukes of the realm, this sentiment of powerlessness by dukes of Wallachia resulted in the formation of an organization by dukes to assert the power of the administrative regions with the aim of not losing anymore power in the future.

760 AD Proclamation Today our incredible king, that have united furthermore the people of our realm through politics and a little bit of conquest during the life time of his father, is the now proclaimed to all realms the titles of Roman emperor. We promise to revive the memory of the emperor that has being long lost since the fall of the Roman empire at is total around 30 years ago.

760 AD Exploration To furthermore increase our relations and presence in other nation we seek to explore the Mediterranean aiming to build a trading post to gain money, not because the navy is very expensive but to bring more richest to the Kingdom of Vlachs and Romans henceforth we shall explore the Aegean see and trade with nations. Meanwhile in the Carpathian mountains we will be expanding the fortresses near our Vlach neighbors to ensure the safety of the population.

762 AD After months sailing and several goods gained we have establish a trading post in this islands that named Marianne Island and Adriana Island (the left one and Right one respectively).

762 AD Upon the realization people in the island were unhappy by our occupation we constructed them houses and fortification so they are more compliant in the future years to come while any rebel organization will be treated as terrorist organizations and imprison.

766 AD Today we venture to sea in search of yet another island to conquer and people to integrate, perhaps finally establishing a good trade route to the papal states to get meet the pope in person for the first time.

## Military

The Romanian military is composed of knights who serve the nobles of the areas they control but can be called by the king to war; there may also be knights that serve the king as personal protectors. The males from age to 8 to 18 from a household will be trained every Saturday in the ways of bow and the sword to prepare them in case of war or invasion.

## Socio-Political Division

   The Kingdom of Wallachia is divided into different duchies ruled by dukes which are selected by the king and a hereditary position; the realm is furthermore divided along the Danube: Scythia Minor which is south of the Danube and Wallachia above the Danube.