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Stefan Cel Mare - Etienne The Great One - the Great Voïvode
 

Under its sword the Turks of Mehmed had bent says "the Conqueror", the hordes Tartar, the Poles, Mathias Corvin the King of Hungary escaped it beautiful by escaping after the battle from Baia from clothes from peasant.

In 47 years of reign it had carried out 36 wars and according to chronicles' it would have lost two battles. The account of the churches which it had founded was simple; it corresponds with the number of engagements delivered.

It was named the Large one and Saint of is alive, it is only in July 1992 that it was sanctified, it dies on July 2, 1504.

In April 1457 when it reached the throne of Moldavia, Stefan Cel Mare the Great began the longest reign which Moldavia was going to know throughout are history.

It was 17 years old and in order to make itself main of the capacity, it received the support of prince de Walachia, Vlad Tepes (Vlad the empalor), him also a legendary figure called ill-advisedly, Dracula.

For Moldavia, opened indeed a new era. That "that have it found there or have did not await it more" was going to be shown soon "equips in the war", a strategist inspired share the genius and an administrator without equal.

Paradoxically, although having delivered such an amount of lasting combat is reign, Moldavia had known the greatest economic and cultural boom, constructions most spectacular, abundance, and peace.

Stefan Cel Mare was the contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, Michel-Angel, or Christopher Colomb.

After the victory of Inalt, against the Othoman, he wrote to the pope Sixte IV of which he had not received any support:

"Thanks to the support of good very powerful God, we fought the enemies of Christendom, we overcame them and pressed we them with the feet, and let us have all to pass we them to the wire of the sword.

Made for which our good God is rented "

He had not been only a one big boss of war, but also a large judicious and refined diplomat, his messengers furrowed all Europe, are name and this of are to him country was known and respected beyond the borders of Moldavia.

If it had reigned in a Western country, can be smaller than Moldavia, which was spread out between Carpates and Dniestr of the Black Sea in the Danube, Stefan Cel Mare would not be the subject of worship solely for and by the Roumanians.

He had been the large founder of churches, the first was Putna devoted en1469 is remained until our days a kind of cathedral like the "Saint - Denis Rumanian".

From the very start, it had wished that it serf of necropolis for her family, after 47 years of reign the father of Moldavia, as he was named are alive, sleeps of are last sleep in the crypt of the church of Putna.

Its terrestrial end was to predict by one winter like have had ever seen and later on by terrible floods which had saddened the entire country.
Crowd expressing her pain while groaning unceasingly, "like a mature standing timber in the storm ".

It was buried equipped clothing which it had worn in the battles. The surrounded head crown with which it had been proclaimed voïvode, in the church Mirauti de Suceava in Bucovine.

2004 A ETE DECLAREE "ETIENNE YEAR the LARGE One" BY UNESCO

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