Constantin Ardeleanu

Institutul de Studii Sud-Est Europene

This paper analyses the dispute that emerged in 1878 between Romania and the European Commission of the Danube, a techno-political organisation composed of delegates from Europe's Great Powers, over which side had the right to enforce sanitary policies at Sulina. On the one hand, since Sulina was part of the territory granted in 1878 to Romania, wh...

In the late nineteenth century, Sulina, a settlement of about 10,000 inhabitants, was Romania’s busiest port. Located at the mouth of the only navigable branch of the Danube, the town held a strategic position along South-Eastern European transportation corridors, being the gateway of Lower Danubian trade and shipping. But Sulina was also a hydrobi...

This paper is the biography of a failed infrastructural project: that of building a Romanian seaport and of linking it to the mainland via a canal and/or a railway. It details its rich life, its initiators and partisans, but also its (mostly foreign) contenders; “born” in the early 1860s in a certain geopolitical, economic or infrastructural enviro...

Buletinul Fundatiei Urechia This article describes the context in which the European Commission of the Danube (EDC) established and maintained its administrative headquarters in the city of Galați. With its activity permanently extended after its establishment in 1856, when it was given a two-year deadline for the completion of the technical and ad...

This paper analyses the public health policies adopted by the European Commission of the Danube (ECD), an international organisation tasked to improve navigation along the Maritime Danube. The ECD, a techno-political institution whose attributions were continuously extended after its foundation in 1856, came to be deeply involved in proposing quara...

This text aims to bring to scholarly attention a little-known source on the work of the border commission that settled the boundary in Southern Bessarabia in 1856. It contains excerpts from the writings ofone of the British military enginccrs involvcd in topographical surveys and thcn in mapping the new border. The engineer's recollections arc an i...

The Serpents Island has always had a strategic position in relation to the navigation to/from the ports of the Danube and those on the Ukrainian Black Sea coast. Since the 1830s, when the imperial Russian authorities built a lighthouse on the island, it became an even more visible landmark for the increasingly numerous commercial ships heading to l...

This paper explores the social dimension of cruising by looking at new forms of sociality created by the advent of steamboats along the Danube and in the Black Sea. Since a Viennese steamship company introduced cruises between Vienna and Istanbul in the mid-1830s, Austrian steamboats became a busy stage of diverse social encounters. The idea of shi...

This paper analyses the context in which the European Commission of the Danube (ECD), an international organisation created in 1856 to improve navigation along the Maritime Danube, started to impose its own public health policies in the Danube Delta region. It established two hospitals and drafted detailed quarantine regulations meant to balance fr...

Securing Europe after Napoleon - edited by Beatrice de Graaf February 2019

Cambridge Core - Diplomatic and International History - Securing Europe after Napoleon - edited by Beatrice de Graaf

Book published within the Thales programme. Reinforcement of the Interdisciplinary and/or inter-institutional Research and Innovation Ionian University: “Black Sea and Port Cities from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Development, Convergence and Interconnections to the World Economy”

The paper presents the development of Danubian navigation during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. The first part, The navigation of commercial ships at the mouths of the Danube, presents the conditions of navigation on the Lower Danube, as sailing ships remained the usual means of transport during this quarter-century, with the ports o...

In June 1844, Stephen Goldner, a Jewish-born Hungarian entrepreneur residing in Britain, obtained approval from the Moldavian authorities to establish a cannery in Galatz. Involved for several years in preserving meats by means of an innovative technological process, Goldner attempted to benefit from the resources of the Romanian Principalities, pa...

The importance of the ports of Brǎila (Wallachia) and Galaţi (Moldavia) in European trade increased greatly in the 1840s, following the massive British involvement in the Danubian grain market. However, these promising possibilities were hindered by a diversity of natural or artificial obstacles, tolerated by the Russian authorities: the onerous qu...