Central Europe . Cft$ 9 gaha Rurn« Fig. 26.—Diagram to show Area of States. denial of independent foreign relations were almost theonly real signs left of the suzerainty of Turkey. In 1857the two principalities demanded the formation of a singleRoumanian state under a prince of foreign aim, which was opposed by the private interests ofadjacent Powers, was reached by progressive steps. A THE STATES *57 Moldavian Boyar, Alexander Kusa, chosen to be Hospodarby the diets of both the countries, was the first Prince ofall Roumania. After he was dethroned, Charles the First,a prince o
Central Europe . Cft$ 9 gaha Rurn« Fig. 26.—Diagram to show Area of States. denial of independent foreign relations were almost theonly real signs left of the suzerainty of Turkey. In 1857the two principalities demanded the formation of a singleRoumanian state under a prince of foreign aim, which was opposed by the private interests ofadjacent Powers, was reached by progressive steps. A THE STATES *57 Moldavian Boyar, Alexander Kusa, chosen to be Hospodarby the diets of both the countries, was the first Prince ofall Roumania. After he was dethroned, Charles the First,a prince of the Catholic line of the Hohenzollerns, waselected to the throne. By the share he took in the. Fig. 27.—Diagram to show Population ( 1900). Russo-Turkish war, he raised Roumania to complete in-dependence. As a compensation for Bessarabia, whichhad been taken by Russia, Roumania received theDobruja, with the port of Constanza. Roumania wasrecognised as a kingdom in 1881. The whole system of Central European states is 158 CENTRAL EUROPE complicated, but not quite devoid of symmetry. Itscentre is occupied by two great Powers, each withdominions exceeding 200,000 square miles, the boun-daries of whose territories and peoples adjoin so closelythat no internal movement of the one can be indif-ferent to the other ; each has an interest inseparablefrom its own security in the well-being and strength ofthe other. Both have retained from the days of theircloser political association a certain looseness of internalformation. The German Empire is a voluntary associa-tion of states competing in their internal development, butforming on the basis of their one nationality a firmlywelded
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