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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 Battle of Vaslui (also referred to as the Battle of Podul Înalt or the Battle of Racova) was fought on 10 January 1475, between Stephen III of Moldavia and the Ottoman governor of Rumelia, Hadım Suleiman Pasha.
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 ...
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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.
The main purpose of Polish invasion in 1497 was the incorporation of Moldavia, hidden behind plans to liberate the Moldavian Black Sea ports, Kilija and Bilhorod, from the Ottomans.
Between the 1st and 7th centuries AD, the south was intermittently under the Roman, then Byzantine Empires. Due to its strategic location on a route between Asia and Europe, Moldova was repeatedly invaded by, among others, the Goths, Huns, Avars, Magyars, Pechenegs, Cumans, and the Mongols.
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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 ...
