Investissements imaginaires roumains en Quadrilatère : La ville de Balchik
Romanian Imaginary Investment of the City of Balchik

Summary/Abstract: In the Second Balkan War, the Romanian Kingdom occupied the Cadrilater (Southern Dobruja) without meeting any resistance, as the Bulgarian armies were engaged in the battle against their former allies from the Balkan League. The Bucharest Peace Treaty (1913) validated the annexation of Southern Dobruja by the Romanian Kingdom. Same as it happened after the Berlin Peace Congress (1878), when the acquisition of Central Dobruja was perceived with reserve by the Romanian media, the Cadrilater as a Romanian territory was also perceived and accordingly managed as an enemy territory, opaque and unpredictable. The discovery of the Dobrujan South by the Romanian painters, poets and novelists would soon change this negative image. The present article analyses the consequences of the picturesque projections over the Cadrilater, respectively, the conflict alleviation at local level and the promotion of the region’s interest at a central level.

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