The scope of this study is to rethink the relationship between Ottoman models and their incorporation into the built environment of the Danubian principalities throughout the early modern period. In turn, the incorporation of Ottoman architectural elements was usually considered as a purely stylistic choice devoid of deeper meaning. Particularly, the absence of mosques and other Islamic places of worship in the Danubian principalities has been brought up in scholarship as an argument for their position outside of the Ottoman space. However, while this cultural footprint has been recognized with regard to moveable luxury goods, such as garments and household objects, the architectural influence has been regarded differently within historiography. Throughout the early modern period, the Ottoman material culture and aesthetics exerted considerable influence on the tastes of Moldavian and Wallachian elites. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the overall administrative and revolutionary-missionary performances of the new regime according to a broad documentation: Decrees, Reports, Instructions, Notes, personal letters, et cætera). However, the idealized type revolutionary discourse they did produce dealt with the insurmountable peculiarities of that era and their demarche proved to be a fiasco.

Rosetti, Heliade Rădulescu, Ion Ghica, Golescu Brothers et alii) had their first taste of political activism and accountability. The 1848 Revolution from Wallachia was the first genuine manifestation of this phenomenon and the most explicit situation in which Romania‟s greatest statesmen and personalities (I.

However, during the first half of the same century, the Wallachian elites and society passed throughout a profound process of transformations that had decisively influenced the country‟s destiny for the following two hundred years.

Wallachia, today southern Romania, was, at the beginning of the 19th century, a relative insignificant province of the Balkan possessions of the Ottoman Empire and a peripheral area of Europe.

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