CONFIGURATION OF THE LAND PROPERTY IN DOBROGEA (1878-1900)
CONFIGURATION OF THE LAND PROPERTY IN DOBROGEA (1878-1900)

Summary/Abstract: The year 1878 was a challenging moment for the Romanian nation, but at the same time it was a year during which, the authorities went forward with determined deeds on the path of surpassing the transition period that Dobrogea was facing, because the ideal of bringing it at the same developing stage as the rest of the country was deeply rooted in Romanians’ conscience. Establishing a relation between history and economy into an integrate vision allowed us to analyse the new status of Dobrogea, which continued to develop overcoming the difficulties that were coming after its union with Romania. Moreover, we succeeded in approaching the society and local and central authorities’ legal and economic preoccupations, following the main lines of the studied domain. Year by year, accomplishing the regulation programs for the land property brought visible improvements in the life of the population. The present study covers a period of 13 years, beginning with 1878, a reference moment in Romania’s history. My desire is to attentively observe the path of Dobrogea’s modernization which registered a series of important steps due to the efficient involvement of the Romanian state representatives, which led to the development of the province’s agriculture as the main economic force of the region and an instrument of absolute necessity to the welfare of any people. The existence of a large number of archival documents within the central and local institutions, well preserved in the deposits of Bucharest, Constanța and Tulcea, most of them unseen, made me begin a more profound analysis of the historical sources, in order to obtain a synthesis corroborated with multiple situations and aspects. Their investigation substantially filled in the information regarding the instauration of Romanian administration in November 1878, the regulation of the land property and its exploitation. Herewith, I consulted old press, document volumes and numerous researches already published

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