Vasile Lupu
Vasile Lupu
(1595—1661) was a Moldavian Voivode (Prince) between 1634 and 1653.
The place of his birth is disputed: mentions of a village named Arbanasi are
unclear, leading to distinct opinions — one held by many modern-day Romanian
historians (pointing to the Arbanasi near Veliko Tarnovo), and the other, first
supported with evidence by the German historian Franz Babinger (in a 1927 paper
presented to the Romanian Academy) that he would have in fact been born in the
vicinity of Razgrad. Both are in modern Bulgaria, then in the Ottoman Empire.
More at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasile_Lupu
