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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA ORTHODOXA - Issue no. 1-2 / 2004  
         
  Article:   THE ROMANIAN AMERICAN’S FIGHT FOR NATIONAL UNITY.

Authors:  GABRIEL-VIOREL GÂRDAN. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Romanian American’s fight for national unity. This paper show up the Romanian American’s contribution to the unification of Transylvania with Romania. At the beginning of the XX century, the most of the Romanian emigrants in America were from Transylvania, Banat, Bucovina and Basarabia, territories of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy. Arriving in America and living in Land of Liberty they no hesitates to fight for the liberty of their brothers and for the unity of Romanian nation. In order to promote their national cause they used press campaigns; they have holds assemblies of protest; they refused to serve in Austro-Hungarian army; they organized Volunteer’s legions that have fight together with American soldiers; they send petitions to the president of USA, Woodrow Wilson; they break of their ecclesiastical ties with Transylvania’s metropolitan seat and they submitted their Episcopate to the Holy See of Bucharest.  
         
     
         
         
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