“War against the Double Alliance would be a disaster”. Ilie Bărbulescu, the “Seara” newspaper, and Romania’s neutrality (1914-1916) Author: Mircea-Cristian GHENGHEA Keywords: First World War, Romania, Ilie Bărbulescu, Germanophiles, neutrality, press, Austria-Hungary. DOI: 10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:61 In the attempt of reconsidering and properly understanding the so-called Germanophile option of a part of the Romanian society during […]
Prelude to genocide: “the Armenian question” and the massacres in the Ottoman Empire Author: Remus TANASĂ Keywords: Armenian genocide, Sublime Porte, Young Turks, Treaty of Berlin. DOI: 10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:49 The fate of Ottoman Armenians was closely linked to the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the last decades of 19th century and the first two […]
Baron Franz Nopcsa: the man who would be king of Albania Author: Robert M. KAPLAN Keywords: Franz Nopcsa, Transylvania, Paleobiology, Palaeontology, Geology, Albania, Habsburg Empire. DOI: 10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:39 Franz Nopcsa, a polymath who was a founder of palaeophysiology, in addition to making great contributions on palaeontology, geography, philology and Balkan ethnography with a special focus […]
Romanian dynastic honours in today’s Republic: a historical perspective Author: Tudor VIȘAN-MIU Keywords: dynastic orders, fons honorum, “Crown of Romania” Order, King Michael. DOI: 10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:27 On 10 May 2008, King Michael, the former sovereign of Romania, created two dynastic medals and awarded them to a group of loyalists during a public ceremony. Since then, […]
The Yeames family and the British General Consulate at the Black Sea ports, 1819-1821 Author: Eusebiu DIACONU Keywords: James Yeames, consulate, Institutional History, Great Britain, Black Sea, Odessa. DOI: 10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:13 The objective of this study is to analyze a fragment of the history of British diplomacy on duty in the territory of the Russian […]
Constantin Negruzzi (1808-1868), “our first great modern prose writer” Author: Iulian PRUTEANU-ISĂCESCU Keywords: Constantin Negruzzi, Moldavia, Iași, Bessarabia, writer. DOI: 10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:5 Constantin Negruzzi was born in 1808, at the Negruzzi family estate in Trifeștii Vechi, also known as Hermeziu (Iași County). He began his public activity in 1825, as an office clerk at the […]