Sudiți
The Sudiți (plural of Sudit -
Imperial Russia, and France
) as reward for particular services or in exchange for payment.
Rights acquired included
; the competing interests of nations involved allowed consuls to traffic sudiți favours and titles.History
The category was established by the 1774 Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, which led to the creation of foreign consulates in Iași and Bucharest.
An expanding and powerful social category during the
wholesale businessmen who formed guilds (bresle or isnafuri) and successfully competed with Romanians in several fields (after the Treaty of Adrianople in 1829 allowed the two countries to engage in foreign trade), expanding during the period of Russian administration
(1828-1857).
Notable sudiți included
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
.
The category disappeared after the 1878 Romanian War of Independence.
See also
References
- Paul Cernovodeanu, "Evreii în epoca fanariotă", in Magazin Istoric, March 1997, p. 25-28
- Humanitas, Bucharest, 1995, p. 184-187
- Constantin C. Giurescu, Istoria Bucureștilor. Din cele mai vechi timpuri pînă în zilele noastre, Ed. Pentru Literatură, Bucharest, 1966, p. 114, 115, 288
- (in French) Nicolae Iorga, Histoire des relations entre la France et les Roumains: La Monarchie de juillet et les Roumains (details on French consuls and their Jewish protégés)