Erik Florin

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International factors could also play a role. Thus, for example, the Treaty of Paris that ended the Crimean War in 1856 led to the emancipation of the serfs in the Danubian Principalities not least because Britain and France wanted a viable state – Romania, created by the unification of the two Principalities in 1858 – to act as a buffer against Russian expansionism.
The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914 (The Penguin History of Europe Book 7)
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