Horea

Horea (born 1731 as Vasile Ursu Nicola in Arada, near Câmpeni, present-day Romania; died 1785) was a Transylvanian Romanian leader of the Revolt of Horea, Cloşca and Crişan in 1784-85. After the revolt was defeated, he was executed by being broken on the wheel.

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