Romanian

The Romanian group includes the Wallachians, Moldavians and Transylvanians north of the Danube, together with the Aromanians of the Balkans and the Istro-Romanians. Wallachia consolidated as a principality by 1330, when Basarab I defeated the Kingdom of Hungary at Posada, and Moldavia emerged around 1359.

Wallachia had to accept Ottoman suzerainty in 1417, and Moldavia later did the same, but Stephen the Great held the Ottomans off from 1457 to 1504. Michael the Brave briefly united Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania in 1600. Transylvania lay under the Hungarian crown and later became a principality.