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((Short description|Historical term for the eastern Balkan states of Moldavia and Wallachia))
((more citations needed|date=February 2011))

[[File:Harper's Map of Danube.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Principalities of the Danube wider concept – Moldavia, Wallachia, and Serbia]]
[[Image:Rom1856-1859.png|thumb|250px|The Danubian Principalities and [[Grand Principality of Transylvania|Transylvania]] in the mid-19th century]]

The '''Danubian Principalities''' (((lang-ro|Principatele Dunărene)), ((lang-sr|Дунавске кнежевине|translit=Dunavske kneževine))) was a conventional name given to the [[Principality|Principalities]] of [[Moldavia]] and [[Wallachia]], which emerged in the early 14th century. The term was coined in the [[Habsburg monarchy]] after the [[Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca]] (1774) in order to designate an area on the lower [[Danube]] with a common [[geopolitics|geopolitical]] situation.<ref>Heppner Harald, ''Österreich und die Donaufürstentümer 1774–1812. Ein Beitrag zur habsburgischen Südosteuropapolitik'', Habilitationsschrift, Graz, 1984, pp. 8–9</ref> The term was largely used then by foreign political circles and public opinion until the union of the two principalities in 1859. Alongside [[Transylvania]], the [[United Principalities|United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia]] became the basis for the [[Kingdom of Romania]], and by extension the modern [[nation-state]] of [[Romania]].<ref name="google">((cite book|title=Histoire du Congrès de Paris|author=Gourdon, É.|date=1857|publisher=Librairie nouvelle|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_6ygCAAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_6ygCAAAAYAAJ/page/n23 14]|access-date=2014-12-15))</ref>

In a wider context, the concept may also apply to the [[Principality of Serbia]] as one of ''The Principalities of the Danube'',<ref name="harpers">((cite web|url=http://www.harpers.org/archive/1876/03/0044983|title=www.harpers.org/archive/1876/03/0044983|publisher=harpers.org|access-date=2014-12-15))</ref><ref name="wikisource">[[Wikisource:The Principalities of the Danube]]</ref> which came under the [[suzerainty]] of the [[Ottoman Porte|Porte]] from 1817.<ref name="google2">((cite book|title=Empires and Peninsulas: Southeastern Europe Between Karlowitz and the Peace of Adrianople, 1699–1829|author=Mitev, P.|date=2010|publisher=Lit|isbn=978-3643106117|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cz7pbGvCqhwC|page=147|access-date=2014-12-15))</ref>

==History==

===Early history===
((main|Moldavia|Wallachia))
[[Image:NicolaeMavrocordatCoA.png|thumb|right|250px|[[Nicolae Mavrocordat]]'s coat of arms (early 18th century)]]
The two emerged as [[vassal]]s of the [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungarian Crown]] (in the case of Wallachia, Hungarian [[suzerainty]] had been present for the polities which preceded the unifying rule of [[Basarab I of Wallachia|Basarab I]]), and remained so until their independence (1330 for Wallachia and 1359 for Moldavia). In 1476 Wallachia and in 1538 Moldavia came under formal [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] suzerainty, preserving their self-rule in all aspects, except for the period of the so-called Phanariote Rule (1711 - 1821), when foreign affairs were dictated by the Sublime Porte.

After a marked decline in independence and prosperity over the 17th and 18th centuries, further independent and insurgent rules, which connected the two countries with [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg]] and [[Russian Empire]] offensives during the [[Great Turkish War]], were blocked by the Ottomans by the introduction of [[Phanariote]] rules over the two countries (1711 in Moldavia and 1714 in Wallachia).

These, while connected with the first administrative reforms, generally had to rely on spoliation, and coincided with a disastrous stage in the countries' history, given that the two became a major theatre of war in a series of confrontations between Russian, Habsburg, and Ottoman forces (until the mid-19th century, they frequently came under temporary Russian or Habsburg occupation, and sometimes administration — as happened to the regions of [[Oltenia]], [[Bukovina]], and [[Bessarabia]]).

===Early 19th century===
:''Main articles: [[History of the Russo-Turkish Wars]]''
[[Image:ConstantinIpsilanti1805.png|thumb|right|250px|[[Constantin Ipsilanti]]'s coat of arms (1805)]]
In the nineteenth century, Moldavia and Wallachia became involved in the cause of [[Greek War of Independence|Greek independence]]. Backed by Phanariotes, the [[Filiki Eteria]] maneuvered in Moldavia during the anti-Phanariote and pro-Eterian [[Wallachian uprising of 1821|1821 Wallachian uprising]]. Wallachian initiative was toppled by an Eterian administration which itself retreated in the face of Ottoman invasion.
[[File:Rosetti (Rossetti) Royal Full Achievement of Arms Coat of Arms Heraldry.jpg|thumb|Royal Full Achievement of Arms (coat of arms) of the [[Rosetti family|Rosetti]] (Rossetti) family; motto: '''VERENO AUT NUBILO SOSPES''']]
Although these events brought about the disestablishment of Phanariote rules by the Porte itself, this was of little consequence in itself, as a new [[Russo-Turkish War, 1828–1829|Russo-Turkish War]] brought a period of Russian occupation under formal Ottoman supervision, extended between 1829 and the [[Crimean War]]. A parallel Russian military administration was put in place, while the two principalities were given the first common governing document (the ''[[Regulamentul Organic|Organic Statute]]''): although never fully implemented, it confirmed a [[Modernization|modernizing]] government, created a new legal framework that reformed public administration, and deeply influenced political life in the following decades. The Russian pressures for changes in the text were perceived by Wallachians and Moldavians as a drive to remove the territories from Ottoman rule and annex them to a much more [[Centralized government|centralised]] and [[Absolute monarchy|absolutist]] empire. This coincided with the period of national awakening and the [[Revolutions of 1848]] - the rejection of Russian tutelage during the [[1848 Moldavian revolution|Moldavian attempt]] and the [[1848 Wallachian revolution|Wallachian revolutionary period]] were viewed with a degree of sympathy by the Porte, but calls by Russia ultimately led to a common occupation in the years following the rebellion's crushing.

===United Principalities===
((main|Unification of Moldavia and Wallachia|United Principalities))
[[Image:Theodor Aman-Unirea Principatelor.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Theodor Aman]]'s painting ''The Union of the Principalities'']]

The aftermath of Russian defeat in 1856 (the [[Treaty of Paris (1856)|Treaty of Paris]]) brought forth a period of common tutelage of the Ottomans and a Congress of [[Great Power]]s (the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], the [[Second French Empire|French Empire]], the [[Austrian Empire]], the [[Kingdom of Prussia]], the [[Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia]], and, albeit never again fully, the [[Russian Empire]]). While the Moldavia-Wallachia [[Partida Naţională|unionist cause]], which had come to dominate political demands, was viewed with sympathy by the French, Russians, Prussians, and Sardinians, it was rejected by the Austrian Empire, and viewed with suspicion by Great Britain and the Ottomans. Negotiations amounted to an agreement over a minimal and formal union - however, elections for the ''[[ad hoc divan]]s'' of 1859 profited from an ambiguity in the text of the final agreement (specifying two thrones, but not preventing the same person from occupying both) and made possible the rule of [[Alexander Ioan Cuza]] as ''[[Domnitor]]'' of the '''United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia''' (the '''Romanian United Principalities''' from 1862). This is known as the [[unification of Moldavia and Wallachia]].

The union was cemented by Cuza's unsanctioned interventions in the text of previous [[organic law]]s, as well as by the circumstances of his deposition in 1866, when the rapid election of [[Carol I of Romania|Carol of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen]], who had the backing of an increasingly important Prussia, and the [[Austro-Prussian War]] made measures taken against the union impossible.

In 1878, after the [[Romanian War of Independence]], Romania shook off formal Ottoman rule, but clashed with its Russian ally over the Russian request for the [[Budjak|Bujak]] (southern [[Bessarabia]]) - ultimately, Romania was awarded [[Northern Dobruja]] in exchange for [[Southern Bessarabia]]. A [[Kingdom of Romania]] emerged in 1881.

==See also==
* [[Boyar]]
* [[History of Romania]]
* [[Hospodar]]
* [[List of rulers of Moldavia]]
* [[List of rulers of Wallachia]]
* [[Romanian Old Kingdom]]
* [[United Principalities]]

==References==
((reflist))

[[Category:History of Moldavia]]
[[Category:History of Wallachia]]
[[Category:Kingdom of Romania]]
[[Category:Modern history of Romania]]
[[Category:Russo-Turkish War (1828–29)]]

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