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official exception to a rule set by custom. Basarab was merely a boyar (of the Craiovesti family) and one not related to previous Princes (although it seems that a similar point can be made about such rulers as Michael the Brave). The reason for this choice has been explained as a reaction of indigenous boyars against competition from newly infiltrated Greeks and Levantines.

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