Jews from Galicia began dominating trade, crafts,…

1840 CE to 1851 CE

Jews from Galicia began dominating trade, crafts, and money lending in the Romanian principalities in the mid-nineteenth century.

A native-Romanian bourgeoisie is virtually nonexistent.

The boyars grow rich through the Black Sea wheat trade, using Jews as middlemen, but the peasants reap few benefits.

Beginning in the 1840s, construction of the first major roadways links the principalities, and in 1846 Gheorghe Bibescu (1842-48), the Paris-educated prince of Wallachia, agrees with Moldavia's Prince Mihai Sturdza (1834-49) to dismantle customs barriers between the principalities, marking the first concrete move toward unification.

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Bucharest > Bucuresti Bucuresti Romania View →

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Gheorghe Bibescu View → Mihail Sturdza View →

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Jews View → Romanians View → Russians (East Slavs) View → Ottoman Empire View → Moldavia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of View → Wallachia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of View → Russian Empire View →

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Grains and produce View →

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Commerce View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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