query: country_of_citizenship stephen ii of moldavia
supports: Romania is a sovereign state located in Southeastern Europe. It borders the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova. It has an area of and a temperate-continental climate. With 19.94 million inhabitants, the country is the seventh-most-populous member state of the European Union. The capital and largest city, Bucharest, with its 1,883,425 inhabitants is the sixth-largest city in the EU. The Dniester River, or Dnister River ( translit. "Dnister", , ) is a river in Eastern Europe. It runs first through Ukraine and then through Moldova (from which it separates the breakaway territory of Transnistria), finally discharging into the Black Sea on Ukrainian territory again. Stephen II ( or tefan II ) ( died 13 July 1447 ) was a Prince ( Voivode ) of Moldavia . He ruled alone between September 1434 and August 1435 , jointly with Ilia of Moldavia from August 1435 to May 1443 , alone from May 1443 to May 1444 , in association with his brother Petru from May 1444 to 1445 , and alone until July 1447 . He was the son of Alexander the Good and a concubine , Stanca . He deposed his brother Ilia I with the assistance several boyars and of the Wallachian Prince Vlad II Dracul . In exchange for Pokuttya the Poles , to whom Ilia had pledged his allegiance , also recognised him , and King Wadysaw III agreed to capture Ilia and hold him in prison . Ilia was eventually freed in 1435 , and returned at the head of an army , engaging his brother in several battles ; the indecisive one in Podraga or Podagra ( the present - day village of Podriga in Drgueni ) brought Wadysaw III 's mediation : an agreement was reached for Stephen and Ilia to share the throne , with Stephen as ruler over the southeastern part of Moldavia , in Tecuci , Kilia , Vaslui , and Covurlui . In 1443 , Ilia breached their agreement , and Stephen caught him and gouged out his eyes . Blinded , Ilia sought refuge in Poland , while Stephen remained prince , taking as his associate an illegitimate brother , Petru II. He was killed in 1447 by the son of Ilia , Roman II , who had ensured Polish support during his refuge in Pokuttya . Wallachia or Walachia (; archaic: ', Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia is traditionally divided into two sections, Muntenia (Greater Wallachia) and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia). Wallachia as a whole is sometimes referred to as Muntenia through identification with the larger of the two traditional sections. Moldavia (or "", Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: ) is a historical region, and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river. An initially independent and later autonomous state, it existed from the 14th century to 1859, when it united with Wallachia as the basis of the modern Romanian state; at various times, Moldavia included the regions of Bessarabia (with the Budjak) and all of Bukovina.  A governor is, in most cases, a public official with the power to govern the executive branch of a non-sovereign or sub-national level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, "governor" may be the title of a politician who governs a constituent state and may be either appointed or elected. The power of the individual governor can vary dramatically between political systems, with some governors having only nominal and largely ceremonial power, while others having a complete control over the entire government. Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a sovereign state situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. Relative to its small territory, it is a diverse country distinguished by a "transitional" character, situated along cultural, geographic, climatic and other boundaries. Serbia is landlocked and borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Macedonia to the south; and Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the southwest; it also claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents, and its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the largest cities in Southeast Europe. Bukovina ("Bukovyna"; Hungarian: "Bukovina"; German and Polish: "Bukowina"; see also other languages) is a historical region in Central Europe, divided between Romania and Ukraine, located on the northern slopes of the central Eastern Carpathians and the adjoining plains. Thessaly ("Thessalía"; ancient Thessalian: , "Petthalía") is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's "Odyssey". The Balkan Peninsula, or the Balkans, is a peninsula and a cultural area in Eastern and Southeastern Europe with various and disputed borders. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch from the Serbia-Bulgaria border to the Black Sea. Voivode (Old Slavic, literally "war-leader" or "war-lord") as a Slavic title originally denoted the principal commander of a military force. It derives from the word "vojevoda", which in early Slavic meant the "bellidux", i.e. the military commander of an area, but it usually had a greater meaning. In Byzantine times it referred to mainly military commanders of Slavic populations, especially in the Balkans. In medieval Serbia it meant a high-ranking official and - before the Ottoman conquest in the 15th century - the commander of a military area. During Ottoman times, Voivode was the title borne by the ruler of a province, whose powers included the administration, security and tax collection under a special regime. According to the chronicle of the Voutsas monastery, the Slavic title of voivode, which prevailed in certain areas of Epirus and Thessaly before the Ottoman conquest, used to denote the leader of a Vlach community or family. The same title was borne by the Ottoman official who oversaw the Chora Metzovo each time. The word gradually came to denote the governor of a province. A province is almost always an administrative division, within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman "provincia", which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outside Italy. The term province has since been adopted by many countries, and in those with no actual provinces, it has come to mean "outside the capital city". While some provinces were produced artificially by colonial powers, others were formed around local groups with their own ethnic identities. Many have their own powers independent of federal authority, especially in Canada. In other countries, like China, provinces are the creation of central government, with very little autonomy. Bessarabia (; "Bessarabiya"; "Besarabiya") is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. Today Bessarabia is mostly occupied by modern-day Moldova, with the Ukrainian Budjak region covering the southern coastal region and part of the Ukrainian Chernivtsi Oblast covering a small area in the north. Epirus is a geographical and historical region in southeastern Europe, now shared between Greece and Albania. It lies between the Pindus Mountains and the Ionian Sea, stretching from the Bay of Vlorë and the Acroceraunian mountains in the north to the Ambracian Gulf and the ruined Roman city of Nicopolis in the south. It is currently divided between the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece and the counties of Gjirokastër, Vlorë, and Berat in southern Albania. The largest city in Epirus is Ioannina, seat of the region of Epirus, with Gjirokastër the largest city in the Albanian part of Epirus. Budjak or Budzhak (Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian: ; Romanian: "Bugeac"; Turkish: "Bucak") is a historical region in Ukraine. Lying along the Black Sea between the Danube and Dniester rivers, this thinly populated multi-ethnic 600,000-people region of 13,188 km is located in the southern Bessarabia. Nowadays, part of the Odessa Oblast, the region is bordered to the north and west by Moldova, to the south by Romania, and to the east by the Black Sea and the rest of Ukraine.
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answer: romania