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A Neolithic settlement was found in the city’s vicinity and on its territory based on archaeological excavations. The Museum of Archeology contains remnants of the Stancevo-Criş, Gumelniţa, and Coţofeni cultures, as well as Bronze Age and Iron Age artifacts. The museum exhibits Geto-Dacian ornaments and tools from the time of the kings of Dacia, Burebista, and Decebal, as well as Daco-Roman coins from the 1st-3rd century and Byzantine coins from the 5th-6th century. In the Suseni neighborhood of current-day Târgovişte, traces of a settlement from the II-V are superimposed on another proto-Romanian payment. In the century following, rural settlements were formed above these. Medieval fairs developed between the XII and XIV centuries.

During the medieval period, it was recognized as a fair of European importance, where goods arrived from three continents and were exchanged with the locals.

Iorga believes the battle took place in Târgovişte (dating to 1369) between the voivode of Transylvania Nicolae Lackfi and the párcalab Dragomir of Dâmbovița during the reign of Vladislav I, alias Vlaicu-Vodă. In the chronicle of the Hungarian archdeacon Ioan de Küküllö, it is mentioned that there was a fortification on the site where the city is located today, as the voivode Nicolae had to retreat after crossing the Ialomița river with his army and taking strength from the wallachians’ fortifications. It proves that the city has existed since then and that the Romanians fought hard for it.

During the preparations for the Nicopole battle, the Bavarian crusader Johann Schiltberger visited the city for the first time in 1396.

Wallachia’s principal princely residence was established in this city during Mircea the Elder’s reign. The Royal Court was rebuilt during this reign, whose ruins surround the Chindiei Tower today. However, recent archaeological research suggests a courtyard was built before Mircea, the Elder.

1406 I wrote a paper to the Tismana monastery as the first official act. As he signed his treaties of alliance, Mircea I Basarab, voivode of Wallachia, duke of Făgăraş and Almaş, comite of Severin, despot of Dobrotici and lord of Dârstor, informed them of both the present and the future.

Due to its location at the crossroads of important trade routes, Târgoviște already enjoyed a privileged status during this period as the most important economic and cultural center in Wallachia.

In 1424, the ruler Dan II issued the first commercial regulation, which established the customs privileges of local merchants and the rights they enjoyed in the country. By order of voivode Vladislav II, the first collection of laws was prepared by grammarian Dragomir in 1451.