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Giorgio Basta, Gjergj Basta
Born
1550 La Rocca, Kingdom of Naples
Died
1607 (aged 56–57) Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia
Allegiance
Spain
Holy Roman Empire
Service/branch
Imperial Army
Rank
General
Battles/wars
French Wars of Religion
Siege of Paris (1590)
Siege of Rouen (1591–1592)
War of the Three Henrys
Long War
Bocskai uprising
Battle of Mirăslău
Battle of Guruslău
Giorgio Basta, Count of Huszt, Gjergj Basta or Gheorghe Basta (1550 – 1607) was an Italian general, diplomat, and writer of Arbëreshë Albanian origin, employed by the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to command Habsburg forces in the Long War of 1593–1606. He was later sent to administer Transylvania as an Imperial vassal[1] and to restore Catholicism as the dominant religion in the region.[2]
On his orders, his ally Michael the Brave, who ruled Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia, was assassinated on 9 August 1601, a few days after the common victory at the Battle of Guruslău, for trying to turn against Rudolf II. For this, he is often depicted as disloyal and violent by Romanian and Hungarian historians. Basta was also the author of books on the art of military leadership.
^Jeremy Black (2002). European Warfare, 1494-1660. Psychology Press. pp. 199–. ISBN 978-0-415-27532-3.
^Setton, K.M. (1991). Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century. American Philosophical Society. ISBN 9780871691927.
GiorgioBasta, Count of Huszt, Gjergj Basta or Gheorghe Basta (1550 – 1607) was an Italian general, diplomat, and writer of Arbëreshë Albanian origin...
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Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania Militants on order of General GiorgioBasta Assassinated near Câmpia Turzii after the victory at the Battle of Guruslău...
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