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Promoting the Western model by the political elite led ineluctably to the gradual modernization of the various levels of Romanian society. During the reign of Charles I, a visible antagonism sketched around the two currents was noted, being gradually organized into two modern political parties, the National Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, which dominated the political life of the country between 1866-1914. Networks of power in the Romanian political system have been built along time and they were tightly connected with: the process of political parties establishment, the relationship between government and opposition, the electoral competition, parliamentary life and government activity. After 1866, a new political regime was established and this allowed for clear directions of evolution both in the domestic life of the country and in its foreign affairs. Thus, the existence of a new regime, supported by the 1866 Constitution, allowed for the consolidation of both the liberal and the conservative political groups, which eventually led to the establishment of modern political parties throughout time: the National Liberal Party (1875) and the Conservative Party (1880). The alternation of government in different stages of Charles I's reign gradually led to the strengthening of the networks of power, which had important consequences at all levels of society: on both relationships within the families and on political and economic relationships. Power networks established at the political, economic and social level enabled the consolidation of the fledgling Romanian state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The separation of the Romanians from the Ottoman Empire was achieved in time, during a continuous fight of resistance on several coordinates: economic, social, political and cultural - all of these being closely connected to one another and favouring the rupture towards the Ottoman Empire and the resistance of the Romanians along time. The resistance and the rupture were expressed through a genuine disobedience of the Romanians towards the Ottoman Empire - this was a period when they took every opportunity to gradually get dettached from the Sublime Porte and avoid any of its influences in the Romanian realm. The present article intends to analyse the war of independence as a climax of resistance and disobedience as marks of the rupture of the Romanians in front of the Ottoman Empire, a force that was considered to be oppressive for many peoples during that age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intention of this paper is to analyze the project of the foreign prince, an accomplished aim of the Romanian political elite, in 1866. During the first half of the nineteenth century the idea of the foreign prince has signified a fundamental goal for the local elite. In May 1866, this goal come to be a certainty, by the arrival of Charles of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen on the throne of Romania, ensuring intern political stability and strengthening the Romanian state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Romanian political regime has represented an essential reference point during the period 1866-1914, achieving to open even nowadays new research questions. The purpose of this article is to analyze the transfer of power, pointing out the relation of Charles I with the liberals and conservatives, regarding the governmental mechanism in that time, leading without doubt to the consolidation of the Romanian modern state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]