Lipnic

Lipnic lies in the northern Moldavian country between the Prut and Dniester. The village is remembered for a battle fought nearby in 1470, when Stephen the Great led Moldavian forces against a Tatar army. The invaders were defeated, and members of their leader's family were taken prisoner. The encounter belongs to the long struggle to defend Moldavia's northern and eastern approaches from raids across the steppe.