Ţara Şipeniţului şi Podolia apuseană în 1395
The Szepeniker Land and Western Podolia in 1395

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of all the sources on Moldavia’s history during its first two centuries enabled the author to advance, not long ago, a new possible ‘script’ regarding the evolution of the northern border of the newly emerged polity. This ‘scenario’ assumes that the first change of the border’s original alignment (established in the mid 14th century as the demarcation line between the lands of the Hungarian king, east of the Carpathians, and those of the Polish king and the Lithuanian dukes) took place in 1395. In that precise year the Szepeniker Land, split away from Podolia, from where Fedir Koriatovych was expelled, was probably pledged to Stephen I of Moldavia by the Polish king for a part of the debt dating from 1388. The final transfer of the land north of the Pruth river probably took place in 1411, when Alexander the Good of Moldavia received the full lordship over the Szepeniker Land from the same Polish king, Władysław II Jagiełło. A thorough analysis of the circumstances surrounding the way Podolia passed from one master to another at the end of the 14th century brings in new arguments in support of this ‘scenario’. Extant testimonies suggest that the Polish king, in the larger context of his complex patrimonial and financial agreements with his cousin, duke Vytautas, had the opportunity to split away the Szepeniker Land from Podolia, which he then used to settle his debt with the Moldavian rulers

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