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: Arthur Viorel TULUŞ Danubius, XXXV, Galaţi, 2017, pp. 117-132. Abstract The Black Sea came back into the attention of European diplomacy in the first half of the XIXth century, on the background of tsarist Russia’s expansion politics towards the Straits, with domination of the Mouths of the Danube being a mandatory step in that…