Formation of the Principality of Wallachia

Timeline

1. 1330Posada · RomaniaIn 1330 Basarab I ambushed and dealt a heavy blow to the army of King Charles Robert of Hungary at the Posada pass, giving Wallachia de facto independence and becoming a symbolically significant turning point in Romanian history.
2. 1337Wallachia · RomaniaThroughout the 1330s Basarab I continued to integrate the territories of the Wallachian tribes on the north bank of the Danube, establishing a stable princely administrative system; Hungary, though still claiming suzerainty, was no longer able to exercise actual control.
3. 1338–1340Danube · RomaniaBy around 1340, Wallachia had established a relatively stable frontier arrangement with Hungary, Bulgaria, and Byzantium, and the principality's status as an independent political entity in southeastern Europe was tacitly acknowledged by its neighbors.