Baia

Baia is a commune within the Suceava County, Romania with a populace of 6,793. It consists of villages, Baia, and Bogata. Located on the Moldova River, it changed into one of the earliest city settlements in Moldavia. There has been a settlement in Baia because the 13th century, but the first written evidence is from the following century. It is feasible that a document in Poland mentions the city in 1335, while a certain service provider become mentioned with the aid of the call of "Alexa Moldaowicz" and the following turned into in 1345, while Baia is placed on a listing of towns of the Franciscan missionaries.

It become thru Baia that the navy of King Louis I of Hungary went whilst conquering the place around 1345-1347. There is evidence of a massive fireplace dated mid-14th century determined through the archeologists and related to this conquest. The early Moldavian chronicles area the primary capital of Moldavia in Baia, however it was most effective an interim capital. Soon the courtroom become moved to Siret, and Baia become now not even a county seat by the point of Bogdan I of Moldavia.