Relaţiile internaţionale în Sud-Estul Europei în primul sfert al secolului al XIV-lea
International Relations in South-Eastern Europe in the First Quarter of the 14th Century

Summary/Abstract: ABSTRACT: International Relations in South-Eastern Europe in the First Quarter of the 14th Century. In the first quarter of the 14th century, in the internal crisis conditions in the Byzantine world and the establishing of a real equilibrium between the three Balkan powers (Serbia, Bulgaria, Byzance), the head center of the South-East European policy was moving towards its northern limits. This resulted into a real cohesion of the states which entered the Mongol political system, cohesion which will survive after the disappearance of its founder, the Mongol ruler, Nogai (c. 1299/1300). The political leaders of the new generation (the Bulgarian tsar, Teodor Sviatoslav, and the Serbian king, Stephen Uros III Milutin) led the system to a political expansion towards the north-west, and determined the Transylvanian prince, Ladislau Kan, to enter into an alliance with the South-East European world. Precisely, Transylvania was the stake of the great war of 1316-1324, during which the Hungarian king, Carol Robert, was forced to face a great coalition consisting of the seditious nobility, the Orthodox neighbours of Hungary and the Tatars. The result of this war was, finally, undecided. Although it regained Transylvania, Hungary did not succeed in reestablishing itself as a dominant political factor on the south-east European stage, giving the states in the area the necessary respite to develop their own historical identity.

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