Romania in The Early Middle Ages - Aftermath

Aftermath

Matthew Paris and other contemporaneous scholars considered the Mongol invasion as a "sign of apocalypse". Whole villages were destroyed, and many owere never rebuilt. According to a royal charter of 1246, Alba Iulia, Harina, Gilău, Mărişelu, Tășnad and Zalău were almost depopulated. Another charter from 1252 evidences that Zec a village on the Olt was totally deserted. After the Mongols withdrew, King Béla IV of Hungary was considering settling the Knights Hospitallers in Oltenia and Muntenia. His diploma of 1247 for the Knights evidences the existence of four Romanian polities in the region. They were under the rule of voivodes Litovoi and Seneslau, and of knezes Farcaş and John.