Alexandru Coconul

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Alexandru Radu (Church Slavonic and Romanian Cyrillic: Алєѯандрꙋ воєвод, Alexandru Voevod; Italian: Alessandro Radoulo or Alessandro sesto, "Alexander the Sixth"; 1611 – June or October 1632), better known as Alexandru Coconul ("Alexander the Child" or "the Princelet") or Alexandru Corvin, was the Prince of Wallachia from 1623 to 1627, and then the Prince of Moldavia from 1629 to 1630. He was the son of Radu Mihnea, who reigned several times in both countries the 1600s and 1610s; this connection also made Alexandru among the last of Vlad the Impaler's Romanian bloodline within the House of Drăculești. The dynasty's apex coincided with the tightening of control by the Ottoman Empire over both principalities, leading to their direct appointment or demotion by the Ottoman Sultan, in exchange for gifts and promises to pay up in taxes (including the haraç). Radu Mihnea contemplated ways to decrease the Ottoman-imposed burdens, and had a cautious foreign policy, aligning himself with the Republic...

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