Giorgio Basta

Giorgio Basta (1544 - 1607), was an Austrian general of origin Albanian, sent to order the forces of the Habsbourg during the Long War (1591-1606) and to manage later the Transylvania like an Austrian vassalage. On its orders, its ally Mihai Viteazul (Michel Ier the Brave man), which unified Transylvania, Valachie and Moldavie, was assassinated a few days after a victory common to Goroszló (today Gurăslău, commune of Hereclean, in the judet of Sălaj) in 1601.

The Hungarian historians, like Rumanian, depict it like an unfair, licencieux man and violent one, moved by a pathological hatred of the Magyars. During its intermittent control on the Transylvania, at the beginning of the 17th century, the principality fell into chaos. In the anarchistic terror imposed by its armies of mercenaries and gangsters, robbers and without faith nor law, the Transylvania lost a third of its population, as well as most of its nobility.

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