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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Wallachia"”.
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The European Revolutions of 1848 and the Danubian Principality of Wallachia
This thesis uses the Wallachian Revolution of 1848 as a window through which to see and study questions about time, revolution, national and European identity, personal and popular sovereignty, and the relationship between central and local interests in mid- nineteenth-century Europe. It argues …
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"At the end of empire: imperial governance, inter-imperial rivalry and ""autonomy"" in Wallachia and Moldavia (1780s-1850s)"
… the biography of several power holders in Wallachia and Moldavia to explore how local, imperial and inter-imperial politics interacted on this Ottoman borderland between the 1780s and 1850s and promoted European imperialist aims in the Ottoman Empire. For this purpose, it provides an …
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Of saints and sinners. Native resistance to Ottoman expansion in Southeastern Europe, 1443-1481: George Castriota Scanderberg and Vlad III Dracula
… and Prince Vlad III, the historic Dracula, in Wallachia. The careers of each of these men are presented individually, their motivations and goals are studied, and the reasons for their successes and failures investigated. Among the questions addressed are the causes of their actions, the aims …
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Political Communication Practices of the Transylvanian Saxon Towns, c. 1467–1526
… 1) and the transcarpathian principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (chapter 2). Section II discusses the personnel through which the Saxons’ political programmes were articulated, beginning with the members of the civic elites in each town who undertook their most important missions to the …