UN SEGMENT DE CALE FERATĂ ÎN CONTEXTUL REVOLTEI BIVOLARILOR
A segment of railway in context of “Bivolari” rebellion.

Summary/Abstract: The paper withthe above title captures several new aspects from the early period of the Romanian railwayepic story when a riot of 503 “buffaloes”, occurred between March 18th and September 25th1873, had delayed until 1906 the completion of 4,150 km between Giurgiu railway stationand Giurgiu port. Between the agricultural workers who were mainly transporting grainsfrom Giurgiu railway station to Giurgiu port with carts and buffaloes(hence “buffaloes”)andthe wholesalers from the port, conflicts occurred regarding failed agreements, which at itspeak resulted unjustified in 7 deaths, 80 arrests and other 22 detentions for over a period ofsix months. The situation ended legally with the release of the 22 people in detention, due toa high advocate craftsmanship of the Transylvanian revolutionary Alexandru Papiu-Ilarian(1827-1877), former Minister of Justice for 4 months in Mihail Kogălniceanu’sAdministration and the first Romanian scholastic who held a welcoming speech (about thelife and ideas of Gheorghe Şincai at his admission in the Romanian Academy in 1868).Although the “buffalo” guild ceased to exist after 1906, it appearsthat theirriot representedthe first form of organized struggle with a collective nature within the Romanian rural andsuburban space. As an original position, the authorssuggest building a monument in Giurgiuto be inaugurated on September 25th 2013, dedicated to honoring the “buffalo” riot, at 140years distance from their unique gesture in Romanian history.

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