Putna, due to its fortified tall walls and towers, belonged to the defence system designed by Stephen the Great, who had built a series of fortresses like Chilia or Cetatea Alba for instance, as he was so often confronted with invading armies, whether Turks, Tartars, Poles, Kossaks or Hungarians.

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