Ilie II Rareş was Prince

Rulers of Moldavia

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 of Moldavia

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 between 1546 and 1551.

He succeeded his father Petru IV Rareş

Petru Rares

Peter IV Rareș was twice voievod of Moldavia: 20 January 1527 to 18 September 1538 and 19 February 1541 to 3 September 1546. He was an illegitimate child born to Ștefan cel Mare...

 on September 3, 1546, after he converted

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 to Islam

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, and took the name Mehmet in May 1546. In 1551 by order of Suleyman I was burgle in Transylvania

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. The transylvanians before long to defeat the Wallachian-Ottoman army. Whereupon Ilie ravage the Szeklerland and break away of Transylvania. On June 11, 1551, he was forced to abdicate by a high-ranking Ottoman

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 official, the Pasha

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 of Silistra

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, and was succeeded by his brother Ştefan VI Rareş

Stefan VI Rares

Ştefan Rareş was ruler of Moldavia in 1551 and 1552.Ştefan was a son of Petru Rareş and succeeded to the Moldavian throne on 11 June 1551 when his brother Ilie II Rareş was forced to abdicate by the Ottoman Empire....

.

Ilie died in exile in the Ottoman Empire, at Aleppo

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 (in present-day Syria

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).