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Unio Trium Nationum

Unio Trium Nationum (Latin for "Union of the Three Nations") was a pact of mutual aid codified in 1437 by three Estates of Transylvania: the (largely Hungarian) nobility, the Saxon (German) patrician class (represented by the Transylvanian Saxon University),[1] and the free military Székelys.[2][clarification needed] The union was directed against the whole of the peasantry, regardless of ethnicity, in response to the Transylvanian peasant revolt.[3]

In this typical feudal estate parliament, the peasants (whether Hungarian, Saxon, Székely, or Romanian in origin) were not represented, and they did not benefit from its acts,[4] as the commoners were not considered to be members of these feudal "nations".[5]

  1. ^ Mircea Dogaru; Mihail Zahariade (1996). History of the Romanians: From the origins to the modern age, Volume 1 of History of the Romanians, History of the Romanians. Amco Press. p. 148. ISBN 9789739675598.
  2. ^ László Fosztó (2009). Ritual Revitalisation After Socialism: Community, Personhood, and Conversion Among Roma in a Transylvanian Village. LIT Verlag. p. 44. ISBN 9783643101754.
  3. ^ László Fosztó: Ritual Revitalisation After Socialism: Community, Personhood, and Conversion among Roma in a Transylvanian Village, Halle-Wittenberg, 2007 [1]
  4. ^ Ştefan Pascu (1990). A History of Transylvania. Dorset Press. p. 101. ISBN 9780880295260.
  5. ^ Lucian Leuștean (2014). Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-century Southeastern Europe. Oxford University Press. p. 132. ISBN 9780823256068.

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