![]() ![]() During his second reign (1541–1546), Prince Petru Rareş (Peter Raresh) acted against Jewish merchants accused of failing to pay customs. ![]() The number of Polish Jewish merchants settling in Moldavia increased in the sixteenth century they exported cattle, horses, fish, and leather to Poland, and imported textiles. ![]() A Jewish presence is attested in Suceava, the capital, at the end of the fifteenth century. A Jewish settlement, possibly Karaite, is attested in the Black Sea port Cetatea Albă (Licostomo or Akkerman, now Belgorod-Dnestrovsky in Ukraine) in the first half of the fourteenth century Karaite settlements existed there later, until the middle of the eighteenth century. Jewish merchants traversed the region continually from the end of the twelfth century, plying routes linking Byzantium, Russia, and Poland. ![]() Hebrew sources from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries designate Moldavia as Valakhyah ha-Ketanah (Small Walachia). The capitals were Câmpulung, Baia, Siret (fourteenth century until ca. Moldavia included Bucovina until 1775 and Bessarabia until 1812. Its princes were vassals of the Ottoman Empire from about 1456 until Moldavia’s political union with Walachia in 1859, followed by an administrative union in 1862. Moldavia was a principality founded in the middle of the fourteenth century. ![]()
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