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Sep 17, 2022 · An Ottoman army was defeated and Mehmed led a personal campaign against Moldavia. He defeated the Moldavians in the Battle of Valea Alba, after that they accepted to pay the tribute and the peace was restored.
The Moldavian campaign or the Polish–Ottoman War of 1497–1499 was an unsuccessful war against the Moldavians, supported by the Turks, led by John Albert of Poland who set out with an army of 80,000 men with the objectives of deposing Stephen the Great of Moldavia and replacing him with Sigismund Jagiellon, reconquering the fortresses on the ...
- 1497–1499
Oct 26, 2022 · 1476 – In the first few months of this year, Vlad is made a joint commander of a Hungarian raid against Ottoman-held territories in present-day Serbia and Bosnia. The towns of Šabac and Srebrenica are conquered and looted. Mehmed II personally leads an army against Moldavia.
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This battle was the last great victory won by the Moldavian Prince Stefan III the Great, who skilfully defended his small principality encircled by three great powers of the time - Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Poland, for almost half a century (1457-1504).
He was a co-ruler of Moldova in 1447–1448, ruling together with his uncle Petru after killing his other uncle, Stephen II of Moldavia, with Polish support. Later, due to the Ottoman invasion of Moldavia, he had to flee to Kraków where he died at the age of 22.
- Maria Olszanska
- Bogdan-Mușat
- 15 September 1447 – 23 February 1448
- Iliaş of Moldavia
After 1484, when he lost the fortresses of Chilia Nouǎ and Cetatea Albǎ to an Ottoman blitz invasion, Stephen had to face not only new Turkish onslaughts which he defeated again on November 16, 1485 at Catlabuga Lake and at Şcheia on the Siret River in March 1486, but also the Polish designs on Moldavian independence. Finally on August 20 ...
In practice, a new fundament to reigns in Moldavia was created by the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829, and a period of Russian domination over the two countries which ended only in 1856: begun as a military occupation under the command of Pavel Kiselyov, Russian domination gave Wallachia and Moldavia, which were not removed from nominal Ottoman ...
