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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 2 / 2004  
         
  Article:   AROUND THE BATTLE OF VASLUI (1474-1475). REFLECTIONS ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE KINGDOM OF HUNGARY, MOLDAVIA AND WALACHIA.

Authors:  ALEXANDRU SIMON. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Around the Battle of Vaslui (1474-1475). Reflections on the Relations between the Kingdom of Hungary, Moldavia and Walachia. The events in late autumn 1474 and winter 1475 connect and illuminate, in a particular fashion, the distinctive political features of three states, Hungary, Moldavia and Walachia, caught up in the same frontier environment, in front of the Ottoman Empire. While, Hungary and Moldavia are intimately linked with the ambitions and habits of their rulers, Mathias Corvinus (1458-1490) and Stephen the Great (1457-1504, Walachia resembles a medieval orphelin with several foster parents, both from inside our outside Walachia, north and south as well, eager to assure their own safety by maintaing control over the state south of the Carpathians. A decisive role, nonetheless temporary inside the area’s political pattern, was played by the battle of Vaslui in January 1475, which marked Stephen’s emergency as an European ruler and opened the way for Matthias’ brief return to the southern front, while assuring the space for a small inside look on a struggle for survival, covered by ambitions. Therefore its chronological impact stretches.  
         
     
         
         
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