Moldavia

Moldavia emerged in the fourteenth century between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester, with Bogdan I remembered as its founder. Stephen III took the throne in 1457 and defended the principality against Hungary, Poland and the Ottomans.

Stephen defeated an Ottoman army at Vaslui in 1475, but the Ottomans and their Crimean allies seized the ports of Chilia and Cetatea Albă in 1484. Moldavia later remained an autonomous principality under Ottoman overlordship.