Tamás Pálffy (“toh-MOSH PAHL-fee”) confiscated the estates of these nobles during the “ten dark years” after the Magyarized Frankopan and Zrinski families led their namesake “conspiracy” over the Fourth Austro-Turkish War. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these landed aristocrats who sat in the upper house of the Hungarian Diet. The Tripartium upheld their nominal equality with lesser “seven plum tree” nobility.
ANSWER: magnates [or főúri or főurak; accept House of Magnates, Főrendiház, Camera Magnaților, or Magnatenhaus; accept “Magnate Conspiracy”]
[10m] Szlachta (“SHLOCK-tah”) magnates often intervened on behalf of this principality’s Movilă (“mo-VEE-luh”) hospodars and voivodes. Stephen the Great ruled this [emphasize] northeastern Danubian principality 200 years before the Ottoman Phanariote era.
ANSWER: Moldavia [or Moldova; or Principality of Moldavia; or Țara Moldovei; or Igemonía tís Moldavías]
[10e] Moldavians of this class embraced the “Latinist” francophilia of the Enlightenment-era “Transylvanian School.” Peter the Great abolished the duma of these Russian nobles.
ANSWER: boyars [or boierii; accept boyar duma or boyarskaya duma]
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