Giorgio Basta (General in Austrian Army)
Giorgio Basta (1544-1607), was an Austrian Army general of Albanian descent, sent to command Habsburg forces in the Long War (1591-1606) and later to administer Transylvania as an Austrian vassal. On his orders, his ally Michael of Wallachia, who unified Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia was murdered days after a joint victory at Goroszló (now Gurãslãu, Hereclean commune, Sãlaj county) in 1601.
Hungarian and Romanian historians alike portray him as a treacherous, licentious and violent man, motivated by pathological hatred of Magyars. During his intermittent control over Transylvania at the beginning of the 17th century, the principality descended into chaos. In the anarchic terror imposed by his marauding, lawless armies of mercenaries and bandits, Transylvania lost a third of its population, including most of the nobility.
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