Founding of Moldavia
The founding of Moldavia (Romanian: Descălecatul Moldovei) was an event, traditionally dated to 1346, when a Vlach voivode, Dragoș, departed the Voivodeship of Maramureș in Transylvania and travelled eastwards with his fellow people to further settle the plain lying in between the Eastern Carpathians and the Prut river. This was incentivised by the Kingdom of Hungary who, after several military victories in the 1340s, drove the nomadic Mongols and Tatars out the region, which in turn facilitated expansion and settlement east of the Carpathians.