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The capital city changed over time, from Curtea de Arges to Tārgoviste and finally Bucharest.
Wallachia was situated north of the Danube and south of the Carpathian Mountains.
Its neighbours were the Ottoman Empire to the south, Transylvania to the north-west and Moldavia to the north-east.
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In the 14th century, along with the decline of the neighboring Poles, Hungarians, Tatars, several feudal states formed in the south and the east of the Carpathian Mountains - Wallachia under Basarab I (around 1330) and Moldavia under Bogdan I (around 1359).
In the second half of the 14th century, a new threat appeared - the Ottoman Empire. After having first gained a foothold in Europe in 1354, the Ottoman Turks reached the south bank of the Danube in 1396.
Alone or allied with the neighbouring Christian countries, rather than in alliance with the other two Romanian principalities, Mircea the Elder ( 1386- 1418) and Vlad Tepes ( 1456- 1462) of Wallachia, Stephen the Great ( 1457- 1504) of Moldavia and Janos Hunyadi, prince of Transylvania (heroic figure to both Romanians and Hungarians), fought many defensive battles against the Ottomans, preventing them from expanding into Central Europe.
As the whole Balkan Peninsula became Turkish territory and following the fall of Constantinople to Mehmed II in 1453, the Romanian principalities had to accept the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire for more than three centuries, though there were a few attempts to regain independence: ( Michael the Brave in 1600 managed to unite for a short period of time all the three principalities).
The tribute paid to the Turks allowed Wallachia (and Moldavia too) to maintain its autonomy.
In 1859, Wallachia voted to unite with Moldavia to form the state of Romania, under the rule of Alexandru Ioan Cuza.