THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL STATUS OF THE ROMANIAN PRINCIPALITIES, MOLDAVIA AND WALLACHIA AT THE BEGINING OF THE MODERN ERA (1683-1812)
THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL STATUS OF THE ROMANIAN PRINCIPALITIES, MOLDAVIA AND WALLACHIA AT THE BEGINING OF THE MODERN ERA (1683-1812)

Summary/Abstract: The failure of the second siege of the Vienna by the Ottoman Empire Army in 1683 (the first was in the age of the Sultan Suleyman Kanuni –The Magnificent in 1529) was the moment on which the Ottoman Empire will be on defensive positions. Confronted with the Habsburg Empire and the Tsarist Russia, The Ottoman Empire will enter in an age with many battles between 1683 and 1812 in the majority of them having defeats and territorial loses. Walachia and Moldavia would be the operational theatre for these battles. Tsarist Russia will make a new strategy of action that of defending the rights of Christian peoples from the Ottoman Empire. Its aim was the occupation of Constantinople, for a hypothetical restoration of the Byzantine Empire, of course, under a Russian Orthodox Ruler. The period is very important from the Romanian Principalities because they will lose a lot of territories which the Ottomans offered to the Habsburgs and to the Russians, without having this right, because the Principalities were autonomous, according to the Capitulations signed in the Middle Age which granted the territorial integrity of the Principalities and their internal autonomy in the exchange of paying the annually tribute.

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