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2 unusual facts about Stephen III of Moldavia


Bogdan II of Moldavia

The assassination put Moldavia into a civil war which lasted until his son Stephen gained the Moldavian throne in 1457.

Doamna Maria Voichiţa

She was regarded to have an influence upon the policy of her spouse, Stephen III of Moldavia.


Gheorghe Ghibănescu

He authored grammar textbooks as well as monographs on the churches of Iași and on historical personalities such as Stephen the Great, Vlad the Impaler and Vlad the Monk.

Ion Petrovici

He participated in the summer of 1904, as a member of a student delegation representing the University of Bucharest, at the commemoration of 400 years since Stephen the Great's death, that took place in Suceava, being at that time under Austrian administration.

Pokuttya

In 1485, Moldavian prince Stephen the Great, after losing in the previous year his country's exit to the Black Sea to the Ottomans, was in serious need of alliances, and swore allegiance to Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland for Pokuttia, in what is known as the Colomeea oath.


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