Horea is the nickname of Vasile Ursu Nicola (b.1731-d.1785), a Romanian national hero. Hora is a specific Romanian dance (danced in a circle), but Hora was also used to name the "event", the gathering (today's parties) of one or more neighboring villages. Vasile loved to participate in this kind of events, thus he got the nickname "Horea".He was the leader of the population's uprising in 1784, in Transylvania, against the Austrian Empire of the time, representing the power of the peasants (the people) against the Empire and the ruling class. He was helped by Ion Oargă (Cloşca) and Marcu Giurgiu (Crişan). The uprising was stopped by bloodshed by Austria's army one year later. [noted -ed]
Hora is a specific Romanian dance (danced in a circle), but Hora was also used to name the "event", the gathering (today's parties) of one or more neighboring villages. Vasile loved to participate in this kind of events, thus he got the nickname "Horea".
He was the leader of the population's uprising in 1784, in Transylvania, against the Austrian Empire of the time, representing the power of the peasants (the people) against the Empire and the ruling class. He was helped by Ion Oargă (Cloşca) and Marcu Giurgiu (Crişan). The uprising was stopped by bloodshed by Austria's army one year later. [noted -ed]