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Istoria ca un balast, LI
History as Ballast, LI

Browsing through history after 100 years

Author(s): Radu Ciuceanu
Subject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today), Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Ioan Mezei Câmpeanu; Alexandru Vaida Voevod; Transylvania; Romanian Nation; Austro-Hungarian Empire;

Summary/Abstract: The article brings forward the portraits of two Romanians from the Austro-Hungarian Empire who fought for the unification of Transylvania with Romania. The first was a Romanian ethnic of the nobility, Ioan Mezei Câmpeanu, a judge at the High Court of Cassation and Justice in Budapest, an advocate of the Romanian cause and of all Romanians in the capital of Hungary. The second was Alexandru Vaida Voevod, a member of the Romanian National Party and a deputy in the Budapest Parliament where he red the Romanians in Hungary and Transylvania’s declaration of independence on 18 October 1918.

  • Issue Year: XXVII/2019
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 5-9
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian