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2022年9月14日—Stephen,bynameStephentheGreat,RomanianȘtefancelMare,(bornc.1435—diedJuly2,1504),voivod(prince)ofMoldavia(1457–1504), ...
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Stephen (born c. 1435—died July 2, 1504) was the voivod (prince) of Moldavia[1] (1457–1504), who won renown in Europe for his long resistance to the Ottoman Turks.
With the help of the Walachian prince[2] Vlad III[3] the Impaler, Stephen secured the throne of Moldavia in 1457. Menaced by powerful neighbours, he successfully repulsed an invasion by Hungary[4] in 1467, but in 1471 he invaded Walachia[5], which had by then succumbed[6] to Turkish vassalage.
When the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II[7] launched an attack on Moldavia, Stephen defeated the invaders near Vaslui[8] (now in Romania; 1475). He was in turn defeated at Valea Albă (1476), and he barely managed to escape with his life. His search for European assistance against the Turks had little success, but his determination “to cut off the pagan’s right ...