Editing Moldavia (section)

===Late Middle Ages===
{{Main|Stephen the Great}}
{{See also|Moldavian–Ottoman Wars}}

Under [[Stephen III of Moldavia|Stephen the Great]], who took the throne and subsequently came to an agreement with [[Kazimierz IV Jagiellon|Casimir IV of Poland]] in 1457, the state reached its most glorious period. Stephen blocked Hungarian interventions in the [[Battle of Baia]], invaded Wallachia in 1471, and dealt with Ottoman reprisals in a major victory (the 1475 [[Battle of Vaslui]]); after feeling threatened by Polish ambitions, he also attacked [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]] and resisted [[Moldavian Campaign (1497–1499)|a Polish invasion]] in the [[Battle of the Cosmin Forest]] (1497). However, he had to surrender [[Kiliia|Chilia]] (now Kiliia) and [[Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi|Cetatea Albă]] (now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi), the two main fortresses in the [[Budjak]], to the Ottomans in 1484, and in 1498 he had to accept Ottoman suzerainty, when he was forced to agree to continue paying tribute to Sultan [[Bayezid II]]. Following the taking of [[Khotyn|Hotin]] (Khotyn) and [[Pokuttya]], Stephen's rule also brought a brief extension of Moldavian rule into [[Transylvania]]: Cetatea de Baltă and [[Ciceu]] became his [[Fiefdom|fiefs]] in 1489.