The Swedish King Charles XII, who stayed in the Ottoman territories 4 years between
1709 and 1713, lived off the largess of the Sultan and eventually overstayed his welcome. The Janissaries detailed to guard him were ordered to seize the Swedish King and only succeeded after a pitched fight of a handful of Swedes pitted against thousands of Janissaries reluctant to hurt the King - that tumult came to be called "The Kalabalik at Bender". An EU-team, representing Germany, Belgium, and Sweden arrived nearly 300 years later, to assess economical priority areas for approximation of the Moldovan Quality infrastructure with the European.
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