Nation-Building and Contested Identities: Romanian & Hungarian ...

CONSTANTIN IORDACHIlation of Dobrogea grew by 49%, while Romania as a whole reached a similardemographic rate (54%) in forty years (1859-1899). See Leonida Colescu,Recensãmîntul general al populaþiunii României, apud Ioan N. Roman,Dobrogea ºi drepturile politice ale locuitorilor ei (Dobrogea and the PoliticalRights of its Inhabitants) (Constanþa: Ovidiu, 1905), p. 123.60 The 1913 census indicated 17 ethnic groups, among them Romanians (216,425or 56.9% of the total population), Bulgarians (51,149 or 13.4%), Turks andTartars (41,442 or 10.8%), Russians (35,849 or 9.4%), Greeks (10,000 or2.6%), Germans (7,697 or 2%), Jews, (4,573 or 1.2%), Gypsies (3,263 or0.9%), Armenians (3,194 or 0.8%), and Italians (1,928 or 0.5%). See IoanN. Roman “La population de la Dobrogea” in La Dobrogea Roumaine: étudeset documents (Bucharest, 1919), p. 92.61 Percentages derived from the figures provided for 1940 by ªandru, Mocanii inDobrogea, p. 108.62 Figures quoted in Ciorbea and Stanciu, “Aspecte ale problemei agrare,” p. 415.63 See Tudor Mateescu, “Les Diocèses Orthodoxes de la Dobroudja sous la dominationottomane” Balkan Studies (Athens) 13 (1972) 2, p. 299.64 Ioan Georgescu, “Învãþãmîntul public în Dobrogea” in Dobrogea, cincizeci deani de viaþã, p. 661.65 See Philip G. Eidelberg, The Great Rumanian Peasant Revolt of 1907: Originsof a Modern Jacquerie (Leiden: Brill, 1974).66 See Statistica ºtiutorilor de carte din România, dupã recensãmîntul din 19 decembrie1912 (The statistics of the literate people in Romania, according to thecensus of 19 December 1912) (Bucharest: Albert Baer, 1915), p. XVIII.67 See Statistica ºtiutorilor de carte din România, dupã recensãmîntul din 19 decembrie1912, p. 39.68 See Nicholas Petresco-Comnène, “La Dobrogea et la vie économique de laRoumanie,” in La Dobrogea, (Paris: Payot, 1918), p. 186.69 Petre S. Aurelian, Opere economice (Economic works) (Bucharest: EdituraAcademiei, 1967), p. 199.70 I. C. Brãtianu, Acte ºi cuvîntãri (Acts and speeches), edited by George Marinescuand Constantin Grecescu, vol. 7, (Bucharest: Cartea Românescã, 1939),p. 276.71 M. D. Ionescu, Dobrogea în pragul, p. 540.72 Rãdulescu and Bitoleanu, Istoria Românilor, p. 295.73 Nicholas Petresco-Comnène, La Dobrogea, p. 137.74 Vasile Kogãlniceanu, Dobrogea, 1889-1909, p. 105.75 M. D. Ionescu, Dobrogea în pragul, p. 929.76 Ioan Georgescu, “Invãþamîntul public în Dobrogea,” in Dobrogea, cincizeci deani, p. 651.77 Ioan N. Roman, Dobrogea ºi drepturile politice, pp. 88-89.78 See Zeno Popov, “La situation et les luttes des Bulgares en Dobroudja duNord (1878-1912)” Bulgarian Historical Review 19 (1991) 1, p. 21; and Rãdulescuand Bitoleanu, Istoria românilor, p. 298.79 See Carol I of Romania, Cuvîntãri ºi scrisori, 1887-1909 (Speeches and letters,1887-1909), vol. 3 (Bucharest: Carol Göbl, 1909), p. 617.80 Nicolae Iorga, România, cum era pînã la 1918 (Romania, as it was until 1918),vol. 2 (Bucharest: Editura Minerva, 1972), p. 330.150