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Badea Cran was a selftaught ethnic Romanian shepherd who fought for the independence of the Romanians of Transylvania , distributing Romanianlanguage 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 Fgra Mountains.
He was born in Crioara, presentday Sibiu County, the second child of poor peasants who were former serfs, and he spent his childhood tending sheep at the edge of his village. In between his later brushes with fame, he would always return to this activity. He became the head of his family onOctober 1865 with the death of his father.
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