Ibănești is a commune located in Vaslui County , Western Moldavia , Romania , with a population of approximately 1,500. It is composed of three villages: Ibănești, Mânzați and Puțu Olarului.
10-617: Among the villages that make up the commune, Mânzați is the oldest. Located seven miles from Ibănești, it was named after cneaz Toader Manzat, mentioned in chronicles of Stephen III the Great . It was first mentioned in a document issued April 24, 1434. Currently, the act is kept in the Central State Archive of Warsaw, in a section on Moldova. Ibănești Commune was dissolved in 1968. At the time, it included Ghicani village, now part of Alexandru Vlahuță , to which Ibănești Commune
20-434: A higher official, the voivode . In the western parts of the medieval Balkans , knez was one of the terms used to refer to the leader of a Vlach katun , alongside katunar and other titles. In the 14th century and especially after the beginning of the 15th century, the term knez became more and more frequent in historical sources of the western Balkans, where it also referred to the leader of several katuns. The knez
30-468: Is exhibited at Bucharest 's Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History , mounted in 1906 by Belgian restorer L. F. de Pauw. This copy is now one of the most important displays at the museum. In 2005, the land where it was discovered was declared a paleontological subject of national interest. Cneaz Knez or Kenez ( Romanian : cnez / cneaz or chinez ; Hungarian : kenéz ; Latin : kenezius , Serbian Cyrillic : кнез )
40-618: The King, and in consequence, their titles of property and nobility became dependant on the decisions of the royal court. The earliest mention of the title in the documents of the Kingdom of Hungary, along with the title of voivode, comes from 1247 when Béla IV of Hungary gives the " Land of Severin " to the Knights Hospitallers with two polities ( kenezatus of John and Farcaș ), except kenezatus of voivode Litovoi which
50-457: The Slavic knyaz ("ruler"). The office was closely associated with communities living according to the " Vlach law ", thus the term knez was replaced by the term scultetus in the northeastern regions, where German law prevailed. A territory subjected to the authority of a knez was known as keneziatus (or keneziate ). Several keneziates formed a voivodate , which was subjected to
60-426: The institution of voivode was retained, knezes had a supporting role, dealing with legal cases and social order, similar to a jury , under the leadership of the voivode . In areas outside districtus Valachorum , for example around Gyulafehérvár , they became "common knezes", their "jury duty" was limited to their village and they were subordinated to local nobles. Where neither a voivode or a noble had direct control,
70-472: The knezes were able to gain more power and influence, becoming members of regional petty nobility . As early as the 14th century, knezes had to pay an annual fee for the acknowledgement of their status by the Hungarian noble such as the kneze of Nucșoara who, from 1394, was due an ox to the voivode of Transylvania. During the reign of Louis I of Hungary the noble status of knezes had to be confirmed by
80-724: Was one of the titles given to the leader of the Vlach communities in the Kingdom of Hungary and western Balkans during the Middle Ages . In the medieval Kingdom of Hungary , official documents, written in Latin, applied multiple terms when they mentioned the Vlach leaders (or chiefs) in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 13th and 14th centuries. The most widely used terms – kenezius and its variants – derived from
90-459: Was then absorbed. It was re-established in December 2003. Mânzați village features the ruins of a church built around 1761, restored in 1910 and demolished after 1940. In 1889, on land near Mânzați, researcher Grigore Ștefănescu discovered the fossilized skeleton of a Mammoth from the species Deinotherium gigantissimum . The fossil, belonging to a juvenile, is 4.5 m high and 3.5 m long. It
100-421: Was then responsible for the social order of his community and acted as an intermediary between his people and the higher states of the feudal state of which his katun was part. The nature and status of the knezes differed from region to region, according to both the district and the condition upon which they acquired the title. In Apuseni Mountains and neighbouring areas there were at least three types: where
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