PROIECTE INTERBELICE PENTRU SOLUŢIONAREA PROBLEMEI UNEI NOI IEŞIRI LA MARE (1918-1940)
INTERWAR PROJECTS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF A NEW OUTLET TO THE SEA (1918-1940)

Summary/Abstract: The issue of creating a new landlocked at the Black Sea and linking the river transport system of the Danube with the port of Constanta, were discussed after the annexation of Basarabia to Tsarist Russia in 1812 and especially after the Russo-Turkish war of 1828-1829 when Russia occupied the whole Danube Delta taking the control of it.The Canal was used as a means of pressure on tsarist government to induce him to give up its monopoly possession obtained by the Danube Delta and to persuade it to agree to liberalize international navigation on the river. After the War of Independence and the reunification of Dobrudja to Romania, the problem of constructing a canal between the Danube and Black Sea, was resumed. It acquired a national character, this time presenting another framework and totally different assumptions: economically and politically development of the country.In the interwar period there were several projects developed by Romanian engineers, economists, press from Dobrudja, Constanta Hall. 1923 was the year with most positions on the need and build of a canal linking the Danube to the Black Sea. The press form Dobrogea proved to be an ardent propagating of the construction of a waterway between the Danube and the sea, on the route Cernavoda - Constanta. For the interwar period Romanian authorities have searched solutions for building the Danube-Black Sea Canal. One of the engineer Jean Stoenescu-Dunăre in 1922 and that of the engineers Aurel Barglazan and Octavian Smigelschi from Timisoara, in 1926. Although the idea of building the canal was very old, that preoccupied different categories of people: engineers, politicians, economists, journalists, all projects showing the importance of such work for the whole country and especially for the Dobrudja region, back of the capital and technical resources, have determined that these views and projects remain at the initial stage.

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