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Moldavia - New World Encyclopedia. Moldavia and possessions under Stephen the Great, ca. 1500. Moldavia (Romanian: Moldova) is a geographic and historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between Eastern Carpathians and Dniester river. An initially independent and later autonomous state, it ...
Moldavia, in Europe; Persia, under the leadership of Uszun Hassan, in Asia. These were the circumstances under which the throne of Mol-davia was occupied, in the spring of I457, by a young Prince, Stephen, whose long and glorious reign of forty-seven years brought him the surname of " the Great." On his accession to
Apr 9, 2024 · c. 1435—died July 2, 1504) was the. voivod. (prince) of. Moldavia. (1457–1504), who won renown in Europe for his long resistance to the Ottoman Turks. With the help of the Walachian prince Vlad III the Impaler, Stephen secured the throne of Moldavia in 1457. Menaced by powerful neighbours, he successfully repulsed an invasion by Hungary in ...
Stephen III was succeeded by increasingly weaker princes, and in 1538 Moldavia became a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, to which it owed a percentage of the internal revenue, that in time rose to 10%. Moldavia was forbidden to have foreign relations to the detriment of the Ottoman Empire (although at times the country managed to circumvent this ...
Feast. July 2. Patronage. Romania. Stephen III of Moldavia or Stephen III ( 1433 - July 2, 1504), also known as Stephen the Great ( Romanian: Ştefan cel Mare; Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt, "Stephen the Great and Holy" in more modern versions) was Prince of Moldavia between 1457 and 1504 and the most prominent representative of the House of Muşat.
Stephen the Great, also known as Stephen III of Moldavia, was the voivode (prince) of Moldavia from 1457 to 1504. Hailed as one of the greatest leaders of Moldova, as a young man his family was deposed from the throne. He returned to Moldavia with the help of Vlad III Dracula, and seized control of the throne in 1457.
hero, the medieval prince Stephen the Great (Stephen III), who was famous for his bravery, wisdom, and longevity, and who ruled in the principality of Moldavia between 1457 and 1504. After 1822, the two Romanian principalities of Moldavia and Walachia entered a new stage of their centuries-long history. The Greek Fanariot
