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Badea Cârțan was a self-taught ethnic Romanian shepherd who fought for the independence of the Romanians of Transylvania, distributing Romanian-language books that he secretly brought from Romania to their villages.
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Badea Cârțan was a self-taught ethnic Romanian shepherd who fought for the independence of the Romanians of Transylvania, distributing Romanian-language books that he secretly brought from Romania to their villages. In all he smuggled some 200,000 books for pupils, priests, teachers and peasants; he used several routes to pass through the Făgăraş Mountains.
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Lived 1849 to 1911 · aged 62
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