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Jews from Galicia begin to dominate trade, …
Years: 1846 - 1846
Jews from Galicia begin to dominate trade, crafts, and money lending in the Ottoman principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, where a native-Romanian bourgeoisie is virtually nonexistent.
The boyars, using Jews as middlemen, grow rich through the Black Sea wheat trade, but the peasants reap few benefits.
Construction of the first major roadways, beginning in the 1840s, links the principalities, and in 1846, the Paris-educated Gheorghe Bibescu, prince of Wallachia since 1842, agrees with ...
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- Jews
- Ottoman Empire
- Moldavia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
- Wallachia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
- Russian Empire
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Years: 1846 - 1846
Locations
People
Groups
- Jews
- Ottoman Empire
- Moldavia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
- Wallachia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
- Russian Empire
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions