 For this victory, Pope Sixtus IV nominated him as "verus christianae fidei athleta" (a true Champion of the Christian Faith).After Stephen's death, Moldavia also came under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire during the 16th century.Although the core religious vocabulary of the Romanian language originated from Latin, many terms was adopted from the Slavic Orthodoxy, showing a significant influence dating from the Bulgarian Empire (681-1396).