Statistică și naționalitate la români (1848-1850)
Statistics and Nationality to Romanians (1848-1850)

Summary/Abstract: Our study aims: a) to offer a general statistical view regarding the Romanians in 1848-1850; b) to analyse the proportion number-nationality in their case; c) to observe to what extent the imperial central authorities in Vienna, Constantinople and Sankt Petersburg acknowledged the Romanians’ nationality in the middle of the19th century. The analysis approaches several topics: 1) Romanian ethnic and national identity versus territorial identity; 2) and 3) geographic and political frame in 1848-1850; 4) statistical sources (the Austrian census of 1850, the Romanian katagraphies from Wallachia and Moldavia of 1838-1852, ethnographic-statistical press articles and printings); 5) statistical data about the Romanians living in the Austrian Empire (Transylvania, Hungarian counties, Bukovina, Banat), Ottoman Empire (Romanian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, Timok in the Serbian Principality) and Russian Empire (Bessarabia); 6) conclusions (statistical comparisons regarding the minimal and maximal numbers of Romanians in 1848-1848; limits of the statistical sources; the Romanians’ ethnonym).

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