Moldavia (influentially, via chancery Slavonic)

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Moldavia was a medieval principality in Eastern Europe whose administrative and cultural life was significantly shaped by the use of Church Slavonic and related Slavic chancery traditions.

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Moldavia (influentially, via chancery Slavonic) canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical state
medieval principality
administrativeLanguageInfluence Old Church Slavonic
linked to: Church Slavonic
capital Iași
Suceava
chanceryLanguage Church Slavonic
Slavonic
continent Europe
culturalInfluenceFrom Byzantine Empire
Kievan Rusʼ tradition
South Slavic literary tradition
dateOfUnionWithWallachia 1859
dynasty House of Bogdan-Mușat
House of Mușat
endTime 19th century
ethnicMajority Romanians
event Union of Moldavia and Wallachia
founder Bogdan I of Moldavia
inception c. 1359
legalCodeLanguage Church Slavonic
locatedIn Eastern Europe
neighbour Golden Horde
Kingdom of Hungary
Poland
Transylvania
Wallachia
officialLanguage Church Slavonic
presentInTerritoryOf Republic of Moldova
linked to: Moldova

Romania
Ukraine
religion Eastern Orthodoxy
religiousCulturalSphere Byzantine-Slavic commonwealth
ruler Alexander the Good
Petru Rareș
Stephen III of Moldavia
Vasile Lupu
startTime 14th century
successor Romania
United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia
transitionOfChanceryLanguageCentury 16th–17th centuries
transitionOfChanceryLanguageTo Romanian
tributaryStatusStartTime 15th century
tributaryTo Ottoman Empire
usedChanceryTradition Byzantine-Slavic diplomatic formulas
Slavic chancery tradition
usedInDiplomacyWith Hungary
Muscovy
Poland
usedInEcclesiasticalDocuments Church Slavonic
usedLanguageAlongsideChancerySlavonic Romanian
usedWritingSystem Cyrillic script

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Middle Bulgarian usedInStateChancery Moldavia (influentially, via chancery Slavonic)