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“The California of the Romanians”81 Iorga, România, cum era pînã la 1918, p. 330.82 Iorga, speech on 11 December 1908 in Adunarea Deputaþilor: Dezbaterile, 1908-1909 (Bucharest: Monitorul Oficial, 1909), p. 39-40.83 Adunarea Deputaþilor: Dezbaterile, 1908-1909, pp. 105-106. Ion I. C. Brãtianu(1864-1927) was the son of Ion C. Brãtianu (1821-1891).84 See Hamangiu, Codul General al României, vol. 5 (1908-1909) (Bucharest:Leon Alcalay, 1910), p. 392.85 Vasile Kogãlniceanu, Dobrogea, 1895-1909, p. 123.86 Hamangiu, Codul General al României, vol. 6 (1909-1910), p. 357. Comparedto the previous law, the only modification was in fact the removal of the word“rural” from Article 3, Point B (see above).87 See Hamangiu, Codul General, vol. 4 (1910-1912), pp. 936-8.88 Ioan Georgescu, “Românii transilvãneni în Dobrogea” (The TransylvanianRomanians in Dobrogea), in Transilvania, Banatul, Criºana ºi Maramureºul,1878-1928 (Transylvania, the Banat, Criºana and Maramureº, 1878-1928),vol. 1 (Bucharest: Editura Naþionalã, 1929), p. 614.89 Statistica ºtiutorilor de carte din România, p. LV; for the population of Dobrogea,see Ioan N. Roman “La population de la Dobrogea,” p. 92.90 Statistica ºtiutorilor de carte din România, p. LV.91 Constantin N. Sarry, Regele Carol I, Dobrogea ºi Dobrogenii (King Carol I,Dobrogea and the Dobrogeans) (Constanþa: Biblioteca Dobrogei June, 1915),p. 7.92 As one of the prefects in Dobrogea expressed it: “What has been achieved inthis time is a remarkable work of civilization, which other peoples could notfulfill – in their colonies – in a period even four times longer than this. It is neitherpresumption, nor egoism to appreciate that we have made, out of a mixtureof races, a people. The ethnic conglomerate that we had found upon oursettlement here has been melted down by the heat of our patriotic ideal.” SeeLuca Ionescu, Judeþul Tulcea: Dare de seamã prezentatã consiliul judeþean (TulceaCounty: Report presented to the county council) (Bucharest: Aurora,1904), p. 4.93 Katherine Verdery, “Ethnicity, Nationalism and State-making,” in Hans Vermeulenand Cora Govers, eds., The Anthropology of Ethnicity: Beyond “EthnicGroups and Boundaries” (Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 1994), p. 47.SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:Antohi, Sorin. Civitas Imaginalis: Istorie ºi utopie în cultura românã (Civitas Imaginalis:History and utopia in the Romanian culture). Bucharest: EdituraLitera, 1994.Bendix, Reinhard. Nation Building and Citizenship: Studies of Our Changing SocialOrder. Enlarged edition. Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1996.Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age ofPhilip II. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.151