PROBLEMA NAVIGABILITĂŢII ÎN REGIUNEA PORŢILOR DE FIER ÎN TIMPURILE MODERNE ŞI IMPLICAŢIILE SALE POLITICE ŞI ECONOMICE Cover Image

PROBLEMA NAVIGABILITĂŢII ÎN REGIUNEA PORŢILOR DE FIER ÎN TIMPURILE MODERNE ŞI IMPLICAŢIILE SALE POLITICE ŞI ECONOMICE
PROBLEMA NAVIGABILITĂŢII ÎN REGIUNEA PORŢILOR DE FIER ÎN TIMPURILE MODERNE ŞI IMPLICAŢIILE SALE POLITICE ŞI ECONOMICE

Author(s): Gheorghe Bărbănţan
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: the Iron Gates; navigation; economic and political interests

Summary/Abstract: The Iron Gates region has been considered fascinating sice ancient times because of its wild beauty but also for it’s new options offered to navigation and commerce. In a simple representation, the Iron Gates are that region on the Danube, covering 100 km, between Golubăţ and Pescari (km D.1040) and Gura Văii-Sip (km D 940). This very attractive region has been confronting with great natural obstacles put in the way of navigation possibilities. The first procedures of normalizing the naval traffic of the region has been started by the Romanians. Back în those times, the problem of normalizing the traffic of the region caught the attention of the Austrians, their first attempts starting în the year 1778. With the passing of time, this problem became an interest for the entire continent. It became a European problem once with the Congress of Paris dated in 1856 witch agreed with the necessity of some projects of rebuilding the Iron Gates. Later after the Congress, the Austro- Hungarian Empire has been chosen to coordinate the rebuilding projects, but, because of other types of problems, the government of Wien transferred the projects to Hungary în 1879. Eventually the operation has led to an improvement in of navigation, although it did not offer a complete a definitive workout to the problem. Hungary took advantage of the role it has received, and tried to become a dominant power in the region, and those kinds of politics had severely affected the economic and political interests of Romania and Serbia. The Hungarian politics have provoked a series of types of reactions in the European diplomatic circles, most of those reactions coming especially from Rusia.

  • Issue Year: III/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 105-117
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian