„Unirea” din Vad, Făgăraș în sistemul financiar-bancar românesc din Transilvania de la finalul secolului al XIX-lea
‘Unirea’ from Vad, Făgăraș county, in the Developing Romanian Financial-Banking System of Late 19th Century Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: The growing capitalist movement in Transylvania was a definite marker of modernization, and it sparked numerous economic initiatives at both provincial and local level, some of them ethnically defined. On this background, the decades before the First World War bear witness to the development of a Romanian banking system all around Transylvania. ‘Unirea’ financial institute in Vad, Făgăraș county, is just one of the many small, ‘village’, banks that gained support and popularity at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. The aim of this article is to shed light upon the development and inner workings of this institutions, with special focus on its personnel and officials.

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