Positions and Interests in the 1856 Treaty of Paris Negotiations
Positions and Interests in the 1856 Treaty of Paris Negotiations
Author(s): Ștefan Gheorghe, Țuțu PișleagSubject(s): History, Diplomatic history, Economic history, Military history, Political history, The Ottoman Empire
Published by: Editura Universitară Danubius
Keywords: Phanariot regime; Ottoman commercial monopoly; porto-franco; union of the Romanian principalities; collective guarantee of the great powers; peace conference;
Summary/Abstract: For almost a century, until the middle of the 19th century, the Romanian Principalities are periodically subjected to "several categories of social misfortunes: wars; military invasions; robbery operations; scales; extreme natural events (drought, floods, earthquakes, locust invasions), epidemics as well as fires, quite numerous in the urban environment". Both in Wallachia and in Moldova, an "antagonism between the great and the small nobility, of identical origin, but with unequal privileges, existed since the 17th century...".
Journal: Acta Universitatis Danubius. Relationes Internationales
- Issue Year: 17/2024
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 39-46
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
