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The Political Relations between Wallachia and Hungary 31 period was when the king came in the region again. The king's return could be placed some time between the 18th of March when he was in Szántó and the 4th of May when he was in Oradea161. Vlaicu's action result was making the king reexamine his position concerning the Balkan problem. The compromise achieved consisted in liberating Czar Stracimir, his regaining the throne of the Bulgarian Czardom of Vidin and the leaving out of the possibility to create a Hungarian Banate. The czar remained the vassal of the Hungarian king with the guarantee provided by Vladislav Vlaicu and by Dobrotici, the despot from Dobrudgea162. The compromise was actualised in August 1369 the latest. It is likely that the conflicts with the Turks mentioned in a document from 1372 were also taking place during that period, which actually were the first confrontations, between the Romanian and the Hungarian troops, on the one hand, and the Ottoman ones, on the other hand. Vladislav Vlaicu was confirmed as ruling the Severin Banate and also received the duchy of the Făgăraş land163. One could also presume that he would have pledged obedience to the king anew. Despite all these new ruling position, meant to keep him faithful to the suzerain, the lack of consistency Vladislav Vlaicu proved in his political actions reappeared after several years. The relations between Vladislav and Louis grew worse again around 1374. In July, certain Wallachian boyars who betrayed the voivode and took refuge in Hungary were found at the king's court. They accused the Romanian voivode that he had presumably formed and alliance with the Turks designing together an unknown plan. The king initially resorted to a diplomatic abeyance, expecting for the advice and confirmation of the accusations from the closest territorial faithful official, the count of Timiş, Benedict Himffy164. Probably the king was not willing of involving into a "diplomatic dispute" with the Romanian voivode because of the traitors. Seemingly the accusations put forward by the traitor boyars were confirmed by the king's counsellor, because during the autumn of the same year war preparations in the county of Timiş were recorded165. The new political option of the Romanian voivode took the form of an alliance with the Turks and the Bulgarians166. Consequently, during the summer of 1375, Hungarian troops 161 P. Engel, Királyitineráriumok, p. 36. 162 DRH. D., I, p. 95. 163 See the chapter tackling the Romanian rulers' governments in Hungary present in the hereby study. 164 DRH, D., I, p. 107. 165 Fejér G., Codex diplomatics Hungáriáé ecclesiasticus ac civilis, IX/4, p. 567-568. Hurmuzaki, Documente, 1/2, p. 218. 166 Carmen Laura Dumitrescu, Le Voivodee donateur de la fresque de Saint-Nicholas-Domnesc (Argeş) et le probleme de sa domination sur Vidin qu XlVe siécle, in RESEE, XVII, 1979, no. 3, pp. 541-558, analysing the graphite of a mural painting, draws the conclusion that Radu I occupied Vidin around 1375. The assumption was contradicted by Maria Hóiban, Peut-il étre question d une seconde occupation roumaine de Vidin; par Radu Ier, suivant de prés celle de Vladislav Ier (Vlaicou) de l’année 1369?, in RESEE, XVHI, 1980, pp. 443-457.
