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Eastern and Southern Romania was part of Ottoman Empire, not russian one. The one that was occupied by russia is now called Moldova.
by KptMarchewa 3y ago
Eastern and Southern Romania was part of Ottoman Empire, not russian one. The one that was occupied by russia is now called Moldova.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoOn the other hand, late imperial Russia saw all the Orthodox lands down to Constantinople as its legitimate sphere of influence, so while the OP likely made a mistake, the notion of an Austro-Hungarian vs. Russia dividing line still has some sense to it.
- KptMarchewa 3y agoSure, the tendency of russia seeing random foreign lands as their own is at least as old as Ivan the Terrible.
- keiferski 3y agoI didn't say anything about Eastern and Southern Romania, just Western. Eastern and Southern Romania has a mix of Ottoman and Russian influences and I think in general most people refer to it as something like, Balkans / Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe proper is more Ukraine and Russia.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoThere are very, very, very few Russian influences on eastern and southern Romania. While Russia did at one point claim the area as its sphere of influence, it never managed to exert any cultural influence. Rather, in those regions, the foreign cultural influences that are not Ottoman are Greek, due to the influence of the Phanariots, and then French due to the massive francophilia of the 19th century. And in fact, even Austro-Hungary arguably had more impact on non-Austro-Hungarian Romania (the Romanian dialects of even those regions abound in loanwords from German and Hungarian) than Russia.
- keiferski 3y agoThe Russian Empire and then Soviet Union were one of the three largest powers in the region for hundreds of years. Yes, they had an influence on Romania, if a lesser one than the other two powers.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoSome political influence on the choices available to the authorities, but not a cultural influence on the population of the country. Even when Romania was part of the Eastern Bloc, the heavy Soviet political influence lasted just two decades before Ceausescu took an independent course and made his own overtures to the West. Romanians know bugger-all about Russia, their language has almost no Russian loans, their Orthodox religion follows the Greek liturgical conventions, not the Russian ones, and French was the main foreign language taught even during the socialist era. Do you possess any actual familiarity with this country?
- keiferski 3y agoRomania is a small country historically sandwiched between three larger powers. Like literally every other country in world history, it has been influenced by its neighbors. Romania's existence as an independent country and Orthodox Christianity being two huge examples. This is...common sense. I really don't get what your hostile obstinance is about, but I'm not interested in arguing over these nonsensical minor points any further.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoRussia was the last country in the region to convert to Orthodoxy. The Balkans had already been Orthodox before Russia due to Byzantine influence. And as I said, even at a late date those regions of Romania were under heavy Greek influence due to Phanariot rule. If you believe that Russia has anything to do with Romania’s Orthodoxy, that is such a basic factual error that, again, I question that you possess any actual familiarity with the history of the country and its culture.