Baia

Baia was a settlement on the Moldova River in the eastern Carpathian foothills. A Polish document mentioned a merchant from the town in 1335, before Moldavia emerged as a principality.

After Louis I's forces expelled the Mongols around 1345 to 1347, Saxon and Hungarian colonists developed the town. Baia became Dragoș's first Moldavian centre before the court moved to Siret. In 1467 Ștefan the Great burned it while fighting Matthias Corvinus; its last Catholic bishop was recorded in 1523, and trade shifted to Suceava.