The Battle of Posada: Wallachia's Birth Under Basarab I

Long before Vlad the Impaler or Stephen the Great carved their names into Romanian legend, there was Basarab I — the voievod who broke free from Hungarian rule and founded Wallachia as a sovereign state. In 1330, at the Battle of Posada, Basarab ambushed King Charles I of Hungary's army in the Carpathian passes, using knowledge of the mountainous terrain to destroy a far larger feudal host. This episode walks through the campaign, the cunning tactics, and the aftermath that cemented Basarab's legacy and gave Romania one of its foundational national myths. We also explore the contested details: was the battle really in the Olt Valley? Did a peasant army truly defeat knights? And how did Basarab's name end up on the map as Bessarabia? The story of Posada is the story of how a small principality won its place on the European stage.

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