Ad hoc Divans
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The two Ad hoc Divans were legislative[Great Powers under the Treaty of Paris. By then, the Crimean War had taken the two states out of Russia's sphere of influence, and had nullified the Moldo-Wallachian Regulamentul Organic regime. Officially, the two assemblies were provisional replacements for the traditional assemblies, the Sfaturi (or Divanuri). The term "divan", is derived from the Ottoman rule, being the name of a high governmental body in a number of Islamic states.
The elections for the two Divans confronted two local movements: the
United Principalities
were the political embryo of modern Romania.