CANTACUZINO, ŞERBAN. - B. ca. 1640, d. 1688; prince or "domn" of Wallachia from 1678 to 1688. His long "domnia" was important from the religious, cultural and economic point of view. From his time dates the complete translation of the Bible into Romanian (Biblia lui Şerban, 1688). His policy at the time of the siege of Vienna in 1683, at which he must have been present in the army of the Turkish vizier, is interesting: C. encouraged the resistance of the besieged and aided their communications with the Christians. After the Turkish defeat C. erected a wooden cross in a forest near Vienna, as a sign of his sentiments. He opened negotiations for an alliance with the imperial forces and with the Holy League with a view to a possible liberation of all the Balkans and the restoration, to the advantage of his family, of the Byzantine empire that had once belonged to it. The possibility of the union never presented itself again of a Romanian Romania with the ancient Greek Romania of the Byzantines never presented itself again.

Bibliography

BIBL.: C. Giurescu, Istoria Românilor, III, Bucharest 1942, pp. 156-68.

Federico Tsillicz

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Cantacuzino, Şerban

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