Abstract
The study is a detailed inventory of the diplomatic and military actions taken between 1497 and 1499 by Stephen the Great, Prince of Moldavia, and King John I Albert of Poland. With support from the King of Hungary and the sultan, the Prince of Moldavia convinced the King of Poland to accept peace negotiations and renounce his reparation request for the offence and damage suffered in the previous year. Confronted with a powerful crisis amplified by the Turkish-Tatar incursions, the King of Poland accepted Stephen the Great’s conditions, but some of them could not be included in the peace treaty due to political reasons. The most important thing, the problem of Pokucya, which had ignited the Moldavian-Polish conflict, was subject to negotiation and, in July 1499, an agreement was reached: Pokucya was declared disputed territory. To ensure the agreement was respected, shortly after signing the peace treaty, Stephen the Great sent his army in the Kingdom of Poland to prevent the establishment of new inhabitants in the disputed territory.
Keywords
diplomacy, Hungary, Moldavia, Ottoman Empire, Pokucya, Poland
