Page 197 - Il Mediterraneo quale elemento del Potere Marittimo - Atti 16-18 settembre 1996

ROMANIA ANO THE REGULATION SYSTEM OF NAVIGATION ON THE DANUBE, (1878-1898) 183

NOTES

(l) Gr. Antipa, Chestiunea Dunarei (The Question of the Danube), in Politica externa a Romaniei
(Romania's Foreign Policy), Bucure~ti. 1925, p. 13 L
(2) Ibidem, p. 131.
(3) ~erban Radulescu-Zoner, Dunàrea, Marea Neagra [i Puterile Centrale (The Danube, the
Black Sea and the Centrai Powers), Cluj-Napoca, 1982, p. 6.
(4) Ibidem., p. 22.
(5) J. Droz, Histoire diplomatique de 1648 à 1919, Paris, 1959, p. 453-455.
(6) Paul Gogeanu, Dnnarea in relatii/e internaJionale (The Danube in lnternational Relations),
Bucurefti, 1970, p. 75-76; C. I. Baicoianu, Le Dannbe aperfN historique, économiqne et politique,
Paris, 1917, p. 137.
(7) Paul Gogeanu, op. ci t., p. 119-1 S l.
(8) C. Diamandy, Problema stramtorilor (The Qnestion of the Straits), in Politica externà a Roma-
niei (Romania's Foreign Policy), p. 205-207.

• Russia first annexed Basarabia in 1812, through the Peace Treaty of Bucharest. After
the Crimean War, che Peace of Paris (1856) return Basarabia to Moldavia.
•• The European Commission of che Danube was set up in 1858, fora period of two years,
while Sir Charles Hartley was to carry out his mission to open the Sulina mouth. The
activity of the Commission lasted for several decades.
••• In this respect, Romania which was a small state, capitalized upon che divergencies bet-
ween the Great Powers.
•••• Romania's and Serbia's representatives were admitted to the Conference with Consultati-
ve vote only.
••••• On September 1885 an Agreement was reached allowing Russia to retain Pendjeh, while
the pass Zulficar remained in possession of che Emir of Afganistan.