MIGRATION AND AGRICULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ROMANIA (TELEORMAN COUNTY IN THE DANUBE AREA)
Études balkaniques (Sofia) 2025, N 3, pp. 600 – 613, DOI: https://doi.org/10.62761/645.EB.LXI3.03
Ștefan PETRESCU 
Institute for South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy, Romania
Abstract: In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, the Romanian economy was mainly agrarian. Most of the agricultural production was provided by the vast agricultural landholdings. The main purpose of this article is to explore the impact of migration experiences on the career trajectories of many entrepreneurs of the “Balkan” diaspora in exploiting the agricultural resources of the country they resided in. This article focuses on the agricultural development of Teleorman county, one of the most productive wheat-producing regions in Romania. The landlordtenant relationship between the Ypsilanti family and the families of Paciurea and Christidis has been portrayed.
Keywords agriculture, tenant farmers, Balkan diaspora in Romania, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Teleorman county.