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Petru Rareș
Petru Rareș was Prince of Moldavia from 1527 to 1538 and again from 1541 to 1546, an illegitimate son of Stephen the Great. He intervened in Transylvania and fought Poland over Pokuttya, but in 1538 Suleiman the Magnificent invaded, deposed him and annexed Tighina and the southern steppe. He was a great patron of the painted monasteries of northern Moldavia, including Moldovița and Probota.
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