FRĂMÂNTĂRI CONFESIONALE PE MELEAGURILE DOBREI (JUD. HUNEDOARA) ÎN SECOLUL AL XVIII-LEA
CONFESSIONAL UNREST IN THE LANDS OF DOBRA (HUNEDOARA COUNTY) IN THE 18 CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The rejection of the Ottomans under the walls of Vienna in 1683, followed by a series of successive victories of the House of Habsburg, opened wide for the Austrians the road to Transylvania, an autonomous principality then under Turkish suzerainty. Formally perfected by the peace of Karlowitz, from 1699, the translation of the levers of power to the new authorities encountered great difficulties, the Transylvanian „states“, mostly Calvinist, not being willing to give up so easily the previous privileges. In these circumstances, the only solution for changing the existing political relationship remained to increase the number of Catholics in Transylvania; and this could be achieved only by the union with Rome of the majority Romanian population, an act perfected in the well-known way in Vienna, in 1701. The opponents of this union, however, were not long in coming; among the opponents were, from the beginning, the Romanians from Hunedoara, especially those from the villages around Dobra.

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