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Stephen the Great - Stefan Cel Mare Great Voïvode

Under his sword had employee Turks said Mehmed "the Conqueror", the Tartar hordes, Poles, King Mathias Corvinus of Hungary escaped the belle taking flight after the Battle of Baia wearing peasant clothes.
Etienne le grand - stepan cel mare - BUCOVINE.com

Etienne le grand - stepan cel mare - BUCOVINE.com

In 47 years of reign he carried out 36 war and the chronic he lost two battles. The churches he had founded was simple, it is the number of fighting ships.
He was named the Great and Holy are living, it was not until July 1992 he was sanctified, he died on 2 July 1504.

In April 1457 when it acceded to the throne of Moldavia, Stephen the Great began the longest reign as Moldova was known throughout history are.

He was 17 years and to take control of power, he received the support of the Prince of Wallachia, Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), also a legendary figure known as misuse, Dracula.

For Moldova, in effect opened a new era. The "that have been or are not expecting more" would soon be "dressed in the war, a strategist from the inspired genius and one without equal.

Paradoxically, although many ships are there in combat, Moldova had the greatest period of economic prosperity, and cultural constructions of the most spectacular abundance, and tranquility.

Stephen the Great was a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, or Christopher Columbus.

After Inalte victory against the Ottomans, he wrote to Pope Sixtus IV to which he had received no support:
"With the support of God Almighty, we fought the enemies of Christianity, we have defeated and were trampled upon, and we all go over to the sword.
Act for which our good Lord be praised "

It was not only a great war leader, but also a great diplomat and refined sense, his messengers traveled throughout Europe, and name him to this country are known and respected beyond the borders of Moldova.

Had he prevailed in a Western country, can be smaller as Moldova, which ranges from the Carpathians and the diestra the Black Sea to the Danube, Stephen the Great would not be an object of worship only and the Romanians.
Monastère de Putna - BUCOVINE.com

He was the great founder of churches, the first was devoted Putna en1469 remained until today a kind of cathedral as the "Saint-Denis Romania.

From the beginning, he had desired to serve as a cemetery for his family after 47 year reign the father of Moldova, as it was named are living, sleeping in sleeping were last in the crypt of the church of Putna .
His earthly end was presaged by a winter and have had ever seen and later by terrible floods which had saddened the entire country.

The crowd expressing moaning in pain constantly, "as a high forest in the storm."
He was buried wearing the clothes he had worn in battle. The head surrounded by the crown with which he had been proclaimed voivod in the church Mirăuţi Bukovina in Suceava.

2004 was declared "Stephen the Great YEAR" BY UNESCO