Re-Flaming the Political Union and Unionists: Local Historical Reading Frontlines
Re-Flaming the Political Union and Unionists: Local Historical Reading Frontlines

Summary/Abstract: Herodotus used to write about the Thracians in book V of his Histories: “the Thracian people is, after that of the Indians, the greatest of all. If they had one ruler and they were united, they would be invincible and, as I think, far more powerful than all peoples…”. The lack of political unity has been and will remain an atavistic feature of the Romanian nation. Burebista managed to unify “the bravest and most righteous of all Thracians” within the natural boundaries and to achieve the greatest Geto-Dacian kingdom, but in 44 BC he was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy planned by just a few people”. Michael the Brave had the same destiny. In the summer of 1600, he managed to be the sole political authority in the medieval history of Romania which had been able to master “the three Romanian Principalities”. Unfortunately, this situation did not last long. The same political reasons and ambitions hastened the end of the brave ruler and, as a consequence, upset the plans of political unity for the second time in our history. In 1859, along with the Unification of the Romanian Principalities, we can speak of the Romanians’ conscious and general expression of will. The political rivalries leading to the forced abdication of Alexandru Ioan Cuza moved onto the ground of reforms necessary for the modernization of the newly created state. We will try to develop these ideas by analyzing the connection between the three great state rulers and the premises which prefigured the framework for the achievement of political unification.

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