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BRANCOVAN, or BRANCOVRANU

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 419 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRANCOVAN, or BRANCOVRANU , the name of a See also:family which has played an important See also:part in the See also:history of See also:Rumania. It was of Servian origin and was connected with the family of Branko or Brankovich. See also:Constantine Brancovan, the most eminent member of the family, was See also:born in 1654, and became See also:prince of See also:Walachia in 1689. In consequence of his See also:anti-See also:Turkish policy of forming an See also:alliance first with See also:Austria and then with See also:Russia, he was denounced to the See also:Porte, deposed from his See also:throne, brought under See also:arrest to See also:Constantinople and imprisoned (171o) in the fortress of Yedi Kuleh (Seven Towers). Here he was tortured by the See also:Turks, who hoped thus to discover the See also:fortune of £3,000,000, which Constantine was alleged to have amassed. He was be-headed with his four sons on the 26th of See also:August 1714. His faithful friend Enake See also:Vacarescu shared his See also:fate. Constantine Brancovan became, through his tragic See also:death, the See also:hero of Rumanian popular See also:ballads. His family founded and endowed the largest See also:hospital in Walachia, the so-called Spital Brancovanescu. See O. G. Lecca, Familiile Boeresti Romdne (See also:Bucharest, 1899), p.

90, sqq. (M.

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