* 1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush

* 1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush

The Pechenegs, the Cumans and Uzes were also mentioned by historic chronicles on the territory of Romania, until the founding of the Romanian principalities of Wallachia by Basarab I around 1310 in the High Middle Ages, and Moldavia by Dragoş around 1352.

** Basarab I, Prince of Wallachia

* November 9 – Battle of Posada: The Wallachians, under Basarab I, defeat the Hungarians, though heavily outnumbered.

The Basarab I of Wallachia's army ambushed Charles Robert of Anjou, king of Hungary and his 30, 000-strong invading army.

Basarab I the Founder (, also Basarab I the Great, Basarab cel Mare ; ) was voivode or prince of Wallachia ( c. 1310 / 1319 – 1352 ).

Around 1324 Basarab became a vassal of King Charles I of Hungary ( 1308 – 1342 ), but later the king called him ‘ unfaithful ’ on the pretext that Basarab had occupied crown territories.

Basarab was expressly stated to be a Romanian ( Vlach ); King Charles I of Hungary speaks of him as ‘ our unfaithful Vlach ’.

Basarab was a vassal of King Charles I of Hungary, who called him ‘ our voivode of Wallachia ’ in a diploma issued on 26 July 1324.

In a document issued on 27 March 1329, Basarab was mentioned among King Charles I ’ s enemies alongside the Bulgarians, the Serbs and the Tatars who constantly attacked the Hungarian confines.

Immediately following the Serbian defeat of the Bulgarians and Romanians at Velbazhd, King Charles I made an expedition against Basarab.

* Treptow, Kurt W. – Popa, Marcel: Historical Dictionary of Romania ( entries ‘ Basarab I ’, ‘ Posada, Battle of ( 9 – 12 November 1330 )’, and ‘ Wallachia ( Ţara Românească )’); The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996, Lanham ( Maryland, US ) & Folkestone ( UK ); ISBN 0-8108-3179-1

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On November 12, after three days of fighting, Basarab defeated the Hungarian forces at the battle of Posada.

Basarab founded the first Romanian ruling dynasty which was named after him.

Only a few month after his great victory, in February, 1331, Basarab contributed to the establishment of his son-in-law, Ivan Alexander on the throne of the tsars of Tarnovo.

Born into the boyar family of the Craioveşti ( his reign marks the climax of the family's political influence ) as the son of Pârvu Craiovescu or Basarab Ţepeluş cel Tânăr, Neagoe Basarab, who replaced Vlad cel Tânăr after the latter rejected Craioveşti tutelage, was noted for his abilities and competence.

As a result of Öz Beg losing direct rule over Kiev, Wallachia and its ruler Basarab I became de facto independent after about 1324.

Nicholas Alexander () was a Prince of Wallachia between 1352 and November 1364, after having been associate ruler to his father Basarab I.

Vlad III was killed in battle during December, 1476, after which Basarab Laiotă cel Bătrân was restored to the throne, only to be pushed off by Basarab Ţepeluş cel Tânăr in November, 1477.

He first took the throne in 1481, losing it shortly afterward to Basarab Ţepeluş cel Tânăr, with Vlad regaining the throne in 1482, after which he would reign until 1495.

The Basarab metro station was added after Line M1 was finished, with the sole intent of providing a means to change from M1 to M4 ( while initially the trains of M1 and M4 were supposed to run on the same trackage up to Crângaşi, a change of project in 1988 involved building separate trackage for each, with the trains running exclusively under Calea Griviţei and no longer reaching Crângaşi, with access between the two at Gara de Nord 1 being impossible without leaving the system and paying for a fare again ).

The peace attempts failed and the conflict intensified with three leaders challenging each other for the Wallachian throne: Radu, who was supported by Mehmed ; the seemingly loyal Basarab Laiotă, who at first was supported by Stephen ; and Basarab Ţepeluş cel Tânăr — who would gain the support of Stephen after Laiotă's betrayal.

Wallachia, the first independent medieval state between the Carpathians and the lower Danube was created when Basarab I ( c. 1310 – 1352 ) terminated the suzerainty of the king of Hungary with his victory in the battle of Posada in 1330.

The first sovereign of Wallachia recorded in contemporary sources was Basarab I who obtained international recognition for the independence of the principality by his victory over Charles I of Hungary in the battle of Posada on November 12, 1330.

In 1442, Hungarian hero John Hunyadi defeated the Ottomans in battle, and placed Basarab II in power, forcing Vlad Dracul and his family to flee.

Basarab was unable to stand a battle in the open field against a large army, owing to the poor state of his troops, and he decided to retreat somewhere into the mountains of Transylvanian Alps.

The fact that Pope John XXII ( 1316-1334 ) addressed Basarab, in 1327, as a ‘ devoted Catholic prince ’ and praised his actions against the unfaithful seems to show some collaboration between the Romanian voivode and the Catholic world, but the precise details are missing.

In 1330, Basarab took part in the military campaign Tzar Michael Sishman launched against Serbia, which ended on July 18 with the Serb victory at Velbazhd.

This was because Vasile Lupu had led a rebellion against Alexandru Iliaş and his foreign retinue, being led into exile by Moise Movilă ( although he was backed by Prince Matei Basarab and the powerful Pasha of Silistra, Mehmet Abza ).

In 1479 he was forced by Ali Kodsha to take part on the Ottoman campaign against Transylvania, where he faced his arch-rival uncle Basarab Laiotă cel Bătrân who had been living in Transylvania since 1477, having been ousted from the throne of Wallachia, by cel Tânăr.

Together with his father and his father-in-law Basarab of Wallachia, Ivan Alexander fought in the Battle of Velbǎžd against the Serbs at modern-day Kjustendil in 1330, in which Bulgaria suffered defeat.

Buzău was pillaged by Tatars again in 1623, as pointed out by Matei Basarab in a 1633 letter:

There is one exception: Gara de Nord 1 and Gara de Nord 2 are separate stations ( although linked through a subterranean passage, the traveller is required to exit the station proper and pay for a new fare at the other station, thus leaving the system ), passengers being required to change trains at Basarab.

It may also be because of these special circumstances that Matei used the surname " Basarab "-associated as it is with a fabricated legitimate lineage.

The most important church is the Biserica Domnească ( Royal Church ) built by Basarab I, completely renovated in 2003-2004.

Tihomir's son Basarab (" Father king " in the Cuman language ) is considered the first ruler of the united and independent kingdom of Wallachia.

The name Basarab is considered by some authors as being of Cuman origin, and meaning " Father King ".

For example, Thocomer, by name apparently a Cuman warlord ( also known as Tihomir, he might have been a Bulgarian noble ), was possibly the first one to unite the Vlach states from the west and the east of the Olt River, and his son Basarab is considered the first ruler of the united and independent Wallachia.

The name of Basarab ’ s father is only known from a diploma issued by King Charles I of Hungary on 26 November 1332.

A local legend says that Negru Vodă left the central fortress to travel south past the Transylvanian Alps to become the founder of the Principality of Wallachia, although Basarab I is traditionally known as the 14th century founder of the state.

The main room is decorated with a wall painting ( 5. 50 meters x 5. 50 meters ) depicting a boar hunt of Wallachian Prince Basarab I ( eight life-size characters on horseback, alongside an inscription in Latin reading Basarab Voivode, 14th century ).

Basarab is a metro station in Bucharest.

Despite its name, it is not located near the Basarab railway station ( Gara Basarab ), but rather to the north-eastern end of Gara de Nord, Bucharest's main railway station, at the intersection of Calea Griviţei and Nicolae Titulescu Avenue.

Access to Gara Basarab proper ( a small annex of Gara de Nord, used mainly for commuter trains ) is possible via an underground tunnel crossing the 14 platforms and tracks of Gara de Nord.

The station is extremely close to the Gara de Nord metro station ( not only are the lights of Basarab easily visible through the tunnel at Gara de Nord 2, but both stations are built below the platforms of Gara de Nord railway station ), a situation uncommon for a system characterized by large distances between stations ( up to 2 km / 1. 2 mi ).

According to the Viennese Illuminated Chronicle, a contemporary account, Robert would have said about Basarab: " He is the shepherd of my sheep, and I will take him out of his mountains, dragging him by his beard.