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In 1388, Władysław II Jagiełło, needing financial support for his battles against the Teutonic Knights, placed Pokuttia under the administration of Petru II of Moldavia, a Moldavian voivode, for a loan of 3,000 coins of gold.
In 1485, Moldavian prince Stephen the Great, having lost his country's access to the Black Sea the previous year to the Ottomans, was in serious need of alliances, and swore allegiance to Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland, in exchange of Pokuttia, in what is known as the Colomeea oath.
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Nurzat
it doesn't contradict what I say: the population in northern Romania, northern Moldova and SW Ukraine owes its genetic mix mostly to demographic realities previous to Vlach expansion: their Neolithic Farmer genes should be mostly from the actual local Neolithic cultures (as it is, diluted down to 15-20% in SW Ukrainians). and yes there you have Chernivtsi oblast' Ukrainians and Suceava and Botosani county Romanians as well as northern Moldova Rep people with a mostly similar genetic breakdown of main components (Baltic, Atlantic, Mediterranean), I bet on a local stable mix that rather was initially Slavic. Vlachs did penetrate Ukrainian territory, but for the most melted into the Ukrainians on a more local and individual path than like getting entire communities Slavicized - that did not happen, only the contrary, Slavic inhabitants between Carpathians and Dniester got Romanianized linguistically. local persistence of Neolithic DNA (diluted, of course) is backed also by the continuity of I2 YDNA hg.
isn't there a way to more scientifically test that? that the Mediterranean genes of Moldovans and Ukrainians are Neolithic and not recent Vlach input (for the most). work has to be done to look more on an IBD way at ancestry in the region than macro components.
From old pictures of my Ukrainian and Romanian relatives from that region, there didn't seem to be any significant phenotypical differences between the two groups. Also, my sister, who is 3/8 Romanian, did not score any lower in 'northern' admixture than my 1/4 Romanian mother. Although it's only a 1/8 difference between them. My Romanian relatives were native Moldavians, not descendent from the more recent Transylvanian migrants who were quite numerous especially in southern Bukovina. 