AUTHOR: Maria Magdalena TULUŞ GEOPOLITICAL REALITIES OF THE MARITIME DANUBE(1774-1800) Danubius, XXVIII, Galaţi, 2010, pp. 33-58. Abstract During the second half of the XVIIIth century, the territory of the Romanian Principalities acquired a higher geopolitical and geostrategical importance, consequent to the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was passing through a deep political…

AUTHOR: Vitali V. STETSKEVYCH BESSARABIA, DURING THE XIXTH – XXTH CENTURIES, A MULTICULTURAL EUROPEAN AREA OR AN OBJECT OF THE GEOPOLITICAL INTERESTS? Danubius, XXX- Supliment, Galati, 2012, pp. 33-40. Abstract Until the formation of the Republic of Moldavia, Bessarabia had never been an independent state and hence it never played a real role on the stage…

AUTHOR: Maria-Magdalena TULUŞ THE GEOPOLITICAL RECONFIGURATION OF THE PONTIC BAY, AS AN EFFECT OF THE ORIENTAL CRISIS (1798-1853) Danubius, XXXII, Galati, 2014, pp.111-128. Abstract At the end of the XVIII-th century and the beginning of the XIX-th, the Oriental Issue was a problem of European balance and in the process of maintaining this balance there…