TY  - EJOUR
AU  - Hannah Riedler
T1  - How Moldavia became “Romanian”
T2  - Copernico. Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa
PY  - 2026/06/02
UR  - https://www.copernico.eu/en/link/6a1d55d31cf538.25503595
DA  - 2026/09/06
PB  - Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung - Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
LA  - en
AB  - For many years travel reports from West and Central Europe described Moldavia and Wallachia as border regions between Europe and the Orient. This perception changed following the union of 1859 – Moldavia came to seem increasingly peripheral and “less Romanian”.
KW  - Romania
KW  - Jassy
KW  - Bucharest
KW  - Galați
KW  - Kingdom of Romania
KW  - Ottoman Empire
KW  - Principality of Moldavia
KW  - Western Moldavia
KW  - Wallachia
KW  - Bucharest
KW  - Travelogue
KW  - State Building
KW  - Ethnic group
KW  - Identity
KW  - Identity formation
KW  - Anti-Semitism
KW  - Separatism
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Nationality
KW  - Orientalism (postcolonial theory)
KW  - Postcolonial theory (theoretical complex)
KW  - Urban development (architecture)
KW  - National dress
KW  - Ashkenazim
KW  - Population
KW  - Multi-religiosity
KW  - Sephardi Jews
KW  - Nation-building
KW  - Journey
KW  - Flight (human behaviour)
KW  - Expulsion
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History of eastern europe
L1  - https://www.copernico.eu/en/doi/6a1d55d31cf538.25503595
ER  -