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On the outside, he managed to lead a realistic policy with two great guidelines: imposing or supporting favorable leaders in the small neighboring countries - Wallachia and the Crimean Hanat - and an alliance policy that would not allow any of the major neighboring countries - the Empire Ottoman, the Kingdom of Poland and the Kingdom of Hungary to obtain a hegemonic position towards Moldova. He tried unsuccessfully to establish a system of international alliances against the Turks, sending messengers to the Pope of Rome, Venice, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Persia.

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the city of the great stephan nations

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Stephen the Third (born 1438-1439, Borzeşti - July 2, 1504, Suceava), named Stephen the Great or, after his canonization by the Romanian Orthodox Church, Stephen the Great and the Holy, was the Moldavian prince between the years 1457 and 1504. He was the son of Bogdan II, reigning for 47 years, the longest reign of medieval times in the Romanian Lands.