From Empire to Nation State: the Greek Communities in Northern Dobrudja (1878–1880)

This article is focused on relationship between the Orthodox Christian Churches (Greek and Bulgarian), and the secular administration in the late 1870s. After the annexation of the region by the Romanians, the Ottoman raya become Romanian citizen. The Greeks in the cities of Constanța, Tulcea, and Sulina sought to ensure the exclusive property and possession of their churches that had belonged to the Eastern Orthodox Christian community in the Ottoman Empire.