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Moldavia, like neighboring Wallachia, is settled by these same mountain people, who move into the Siret and Prut river valleys north of the Danube and west of the Dniester River.

The name of the city of Iasi is first officially mentioned in a document about commercial privilege granted by the Moldavian Prince (Voivode) Alexandru the Good to the Polish merchants of Lvov in 1408.

However, as buildings older than 1408 existed and still exist (for example the Armenian Church originally believed to be built in 1395), it is believed that the city existed long before its first mentioning.

Stephen and Radu confront each other in 1471 in Moldavia, where the latter is defeated.

Meanwhile, Genoa, which possesses several colonies in the Crimea, has begun to worry about Stephen's growing influence in the region, and orders her colonies to do whatever is needed to revenge past mischief from which the Genovese had allegedly suffered.

The colonies in turn urge the Tatars to attack Moldavia.

Later this year, the Tatars invade the country from the north, causing great damage to the land and enslaving many.

Stephen replies by invading Tatar territory with Polish assistance.

Iasi, or Jassy, located on the Bahlui River near its confluence with the Prut, first settled in the seventh century, and a fort and customs station on trade routes during the fourteenth century, suffers attacks from the Tatars in 1513.

Immediately after Bogdan comes to the Moldavian throne, he had expressed his wish to marry Elisabeth, sister of Polish King Alexander Jagiello; after being twice refused despite offering generous gifts (including territorial concessions), he raids southern Poland, and is conceded his demands—based on his promise to be more lenient towards the status of the Roman Catholic Church in Moldavia—in 1506.

Alexander's death and Sigismund's ascendancy lead to a breaking of the previous agreement, provoking further incursions on each side.

In October 1509, Bogdan is severely defeated on the Dniester river; a peace is signed on January 17, 1510, when the ruler finally renounces his pretensions.

In the same year, Moldavia suffers two major Tatar invasions (they are alleged to have carried away seventy-four thousand as slaves).

In 1511, the Tatars even manage to occupy most of the country.

The events force Poland, still recovering from the great invasion of 1506, to send troops as aid, helping Bogdan regain his lands after a victory in May 1512.

In 1514, in order to block the Tatar threat by enlisting the help of a powerful overlord, Bogdan sends chancellor Tăutu to negotiate the terms of Moldavia's submission to the Ottoman Empire, now under the rule of Sultan Selim.

The Porte demands that a certain sum (initially expressed as four thousand gold coins) be paid yearly, together with a ceremonial gift of forty horses and forty falcons, additional expenses (such as for the celebration of Eid ul-Fitr) and assistance in case of war—princes themselves are required to lead a four thousand-strong army that will place itself under the orders of the Sultan.

In exchange for these, Moldavia is allowed a high level of autonomy.

Meanwhile in the eastern Balkans, the Ottoman Turks attack Iasi (Jassy) in 1538 and ...

The Greek adventurer Prince Ioan Iacob Heraclid had founded a school and a Lutheran church in Iasi between 1561 and 1563.

Prince Alexandru Lăpuşneanu moves the Moldavian capital from Suceava to Iaşi, where construction begins on Iasi’s Golia Church, a harmonious blend of styles, funded by the boyar Ioan Golia.

...Michael’s Moldavian allies defeat the Turks in Iaşi and other parts of Moldova.

Münnich plans to march from Iaşi on the Ottoman capital, but Austria, defeated by the Turks at Grocka, signs the separate Belgrade Peace Treaty with the Ottoman Empire on August 21.

The Treaty of Iasi in 1792 forces the Ottoman Empire to cede all of its holdings in what is now Transnistria to the Russian Empire.

An expanded Bessarabia is annexed by, and incorporated into, the Russian Empire following the Russo- Turkish War of 1806-12 according to the terms of the Treaty of Bucharest of 1812.

...Iasi.