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Name: Principality of Moldavia (Ottoman Empire)

Type: Polity

Start: 1505 AD

End: 1828 AD

Nation: moldova

Parent: turkey

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Principality of Moldavia (Ottoman Empire)

This article is about the specific polity Principality of Moldavia (Ottoman Empire) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Period of Vassalage of Moldavia to the Ottoman Empire.

Establishment

January 1505: After 1504, Moldavia fell into decline and was forced to accept vassalage for the Porte.

Chronology

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1. Conquests of Suleiman I (Ottoman)

Conquests and wars with Ottoman involvement during the rule of Suleiman I.

January 1539: In 1538, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent invaded the Kingdom of Moldavia. Prince Peter IV Rareş sought refuge in Transylvania as Suleiman's forces occupied key Moldavian cities, such as the capital of Jassy.

January 1542: Hotin conquered by turkey.

January 1542: The Khotyn area becomes part of Moldavia.

1.1.Moldavian-Ottoman War

Was a conflict between Moldavia and the Ottoman Empire.

February 1539: In 1539, the Kingdom of Moldavia was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. Prince Peter IV Rareş fled to Transylvania as Suleiman invaded and occupied major cities, including the capital of Jassy.

2. Conquests of Selim II

Expansion during the rule of Selim II in the Ottoman Empire.

January 1573: Hotin conquered by turkey.

3. Conquests of Murad III

Expansion during the rule of Murad III in the Ottoman Empire.

January 1575: The Principality of Moldavia becomes a vassal of the Ottoman Empire.

4. Ottoman-Habsburg Wars

Were a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Domains. The conflicts started with the partition of Hungary between the Ottomans and the Habsburgs after the Battle of Mohács (1526).

4.1.Long Turkish War

Was a war between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburgs (along with their respective allies) over the control of Romanian and Hungarian territories.

October 1600: Wallachia was in personal union with Moldavia until September 1600.

5. Time of Troubles

Was a period of political crisis during the Tsardom of Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Fyodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty, and ended in 1613 with the accession of Michael I of the House of Romanov.

5.1.Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618)

Was a conflict fought between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth together with Zaporozhian Cossacks.

5.1.1.Truce of Deulino

Was the treaty that ended the Polish-Muscovite War (1609-1618) with notable Polish territorial gains.

January 1619: With the Truce of Deulino at the end of the Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618), Russia ceded various territories to Poland-Lithuania. The Commonwealth gained control over the Smolensk and Chernihiv Voivodeships.

6. Northern Wars

A series of wars fought in northern and northeastern Europe from the 16th to the 18th century.

6.1.Russo-Polish War (1654-1667)

Was a major conflict between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that ended with significant Russian territorial gains.

June 1655: A Polish army (allied with the Tatars) crushed a Russian-Ukrainian contingent at Zhashkov.

7. Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774)

Was a war between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. The Russian Empire was victorious and ceded territories in Ukraine to Russia. The Crimean Khanate became a Russian protectorate.

7.1.Russian invasion (Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774)

Was the Russian invasion of the Ottoman Empire during the Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774).

October 1769: With the Ottomans in disarray the Russians took the capital of Moldavia (Jassy).

August 1770: From the capital of Bucharest, the Russians fanned out through the principality, only later being challenged by Grand Vizier Mehmed Emin Pasha at Kagul on Aug 1, 1770. The Russians routed the Grand Vizier's forces and allegedly one-third of the Ottoman troops drowned in the Danube trying to escape.

7.2.Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca

Was the treaty that ended the Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774). The Ottomans ceded territories in modern-day Ukraine to Russia, and the Crimean Khanate became a Russian protectorate.

July 1774: After the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca forced the Ottoman Empire to leave the Crimean Khanate, the Russian army left the other regions it had occupied.

8. Russo-Turkish War (1787-1792)

Was an unsuccessful attempt by the Ottoman Empire to regain lands lost to the Russian Empire in the course of the previous Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774).

January 1789: In Moldavia, Russian troops captured the Ottoman cities of Chocim and Jassy.

8.1.Treaty of Jassy

Was the treaty that ended the Russo-Turkish War (1787-1792).

January 1792: The Treaty of Jassy was signed on 9 January 1792 by the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, recognizing Russia's 1783 annexation of the Crimean Khanate. Yedisan (Odessa and Ochakov) was also ceded to Russia.

9. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

9.1.War of the Fourth Coalition

Was a war between the French Empire and a coalition of European monarchies, mainly Prussia and Russia.

9.1.1.Polish, Russian and Swedish campaigns (War of the Fourth Coalition)

Was the theatre of war in Poland, Russia and Sweden during the War of the Fourth Coalition.

January 1807: In order to safeguard the Russian border against a possible French attack, a 40,000-strong Russian contingent advanced into Moldavia and Wallachia.

9.1.2.Peace of Tilsit

Were a series of treaties that ended the War of the Fourth Coalition.

July 1807: The Treaties of Tilsit were two agreements signed by Napoleon I of France in the town of Tilsit in July 1807 in the aftermath of his victory at Friedland. The first was signed on 7 July, between Emperor Alexander I of Russia and Napoleon I of France. The Russian tsar agreed to evacuate Wallachia and Moldavia.

10. Russo-Turkish War (1806-1812)

Was a war between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

10.1.Treaty of Bucharest

The Treaty of Bucharest between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, was signed on 28 May 1812 at the end of the Russo-Turkish War of 1806-12. The eastern half of the Principality of Moldavia was ceded by the Ottoman Empire to Russia.

July 1812: The Treaty of Bucharest between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, was signed on 28 May 1812, in Manuc's Inn in Bucharest, and ratified on 5 July 1812, at the end of the Russo-Turkish War. The eastern half of the Principality of Moldavia, between Prut and Dniester Rivers, with an area of 45,630 km2 (Bessarabia), was ceded by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a vassal) to Russia.

11. Russo-Turkish War (1828-29)

Was a war between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. War broke out after the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II closed the Dardanelles to Russian ships because Russia had supported the revolutionaries of the Greek War of Independency.

11.1.Balkan front of the Russo-Turkish War (1828-29)

Was the Balkan theatre of the Russo-Turkish War (1828-1829).

June 1828: In April and May 1828, the Russian commander-in-chief, Prince Peter Wittgenstein, led Russian forces into the Romanian Principates of Wallachia and Moldavia as part of the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829. The territories were placed under Russian military occupation.